sitting at Dunkin

I am a really lazy writer. When I put together blog posts I tend not to think about them. I have been writing a Wordpress blog as well as this freewriting blog, and I have noticed that I don’t put any more thought into that blog than I do for this one. This...

Python versus JavaScript

The title of this post is really a false comparison; I don’t really think there is a competition between Python and JavaScript in my life. The fact is, I have spent some time learning both, and I don’t feel I need to choose. Let me lay out something of a co...

creating a search function

I’m starting this post late on a Thursday, but I’m going to finish it on Friday.

JavaScript cardio algorithms

This is a collection of JavaScript algorithms taught by Brad Traversy in a short series of YouTube videos titled JavaScript Cardio. I like to collect algorithm exercises in case I ever need to do a coding interview, so here are a bunch more.

full-stack development

As I go along in learning to code I find, more and more, that I am preparing myself for full-stack development. I guess that makes sense if I am going to be working by myself, but if I want a coding job I had better focus myself a bit more. For the time bei...

web development guide

I know the title of this post sounds a bit highfalutin, but it is actually just notes from a YouTube video on the state of web development in 2019 done by Brad Traversy of Traversy Media. I’m just going to list out my notes, since that seems to be my style ...

still learning NodeJS

Learning to code is not a linear thing, I am finding out. Everything I truly learn is something I have gone over several times. I am currently working through a Udemy tutorial titled The Complete Node.js Developer Course, and this is probably the third time...

goodreads

I recently found the great site goodreads.com, and I have been adding my reading lists to it. I was able to dig out the bibliography of the first two semesters of the Major Works in Afro-American Studies course for the 2004-05 academic year. I’ll have to po...

code testing

I’ve been working for a while now on the CS50w course, Web Development with Python and JavaScript. I am now working on the topic of testing and Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD). Let me just break this stuff down a bit before it flies out...

another sunday

It’s just another Sunday in the shelter. Since the libraries are closed on Sundays I go to Dunkin Donuts for a few hours of internet usage. I’m back at the shelter now, using my phone as a hotspot so I can write for this blog. I’ve spent the day so far on l...

stuck in Python

I have been working on a project 1 for EdX’s CS50: Web Development Using Python and JavaScript, and I am badly stuck. I can get the login and registration pages to show, but I can’t actually register or login. I just posted a question on Discord to see if I...

Coffee at Dunkin'

Freewriting is cathartic, but sometimes tedious and burdensome. I find myself forcing the words, as if I don’t have anything particular to say. I suppose I don’t have anything to say, really, but I need to write nonetheless. It makes me feel like I’ve gotte...

tomorrow is a new month

Tomorrow is the first day of June. I don’t know why that seems significant to me, but it does. Probably because I associate June with Summer, with the hot and sticky weather. It’s going to be a drag carrying all my shit around during the hot weather. But I ...

new library today

I’m trying out the new library at STCC today, and so far so good. My faculty login still works here so the internet connection was automatic. Nice new place. Last year when I was teaching at STCC the building was still under construction. Mark from the shel...

just got my prescriptions

I made it to CVS and back after breakfast, and I am now hanging out with Bev and Dave while Bev shows us photos of the house she lost to repossession. We all have stories as to how we ended up in the shelter. It’s a depressing place to be, but it is nice to...

lazy afternoon

This is my second post for the day. After writing it I will use my phone as a hotspot so I can up load the post to my blog. It’s interesting to me that I am still writing this blog. I lost the other blog because I can no longer afford to pay for it. This bl...

lazy afternoon

This is my second post for the day. After writing it I will use my phone as a hotspot so I can up load the post to my blog. It’s interesting to me that I am still writing this blog. I lost the other blog because I can no longer afford to pay for it. This bl...

coffee at the casino

I’m new to being homeless, so a guy I met, Mark, has been showing me how to get free stuff in Springfield. This morning we went to a free breakfast down by the river, and then we went to the casino where they have 24/7 bathrooms and free coffee. I had never...

after breakfast

I have been working on my thoughts regarding both coding and musical practice using GitBook as a way to both get my ideas down and get them online.

another post today

This is my second post today. I’m feeling the writing a bit I guess.

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