I had breakfast a while ago and now I am sitting in the day room (the cafeteria) reading and writing until they serve lunch at 12:00. I really need another cup of coffee, but I don’t want to miss lunch. The meals here are small, but they are free. I can’t a...

Well, of course I’m still homeless; I was homeless yesterday and I’m homeless today. I’ve officially been in the shelter for two weeks now, and I am becoming much more comfortable with my situation. Rather, I should say that I no longer feel ashamed or alon...

I’m at the Springfield public library again. Since I last posted on this blog - I’m posting far too little - I have become homeless. Currently, I live in a homeless shelter, sleeping on the floor while I wait to be assigned a bed. I had to give up all my fu...

I have been thinking again about the data visualization challenges and projects I did while working on the freeCodeCamp curriculum. I really need to re-do the challenges and then figure out my own projects. As I have written elsewhere, I believe data visual...

I have no fucking idea what I mean by this corny title, but there we go. I’m feeling in a kind of nonsense mood. Yet another day of watching TV and avoiding my dire living situation. I’m getting food only from food pantries and food stamps, and yet I sit ar...

I’m fucking off yet another day as an unemployed bum, and, of course, I don’t feel good about it. I just saw a story from the Young Turks that featured an asshole on Fox News who claimed that the real problem with welfare services these days is that people ...

I don’t know why Google Drive doesn’t work on my laptop, but it doesn’t. Ah well.

Today is the day after Christmas, and I am sitting on a couch in my mom’s house, typing in an awkward position. In fact, let me move to a table.

Here is another list of JavaScript algorithms I have coded out on Repl.it, all taken from the freeCodeCamp curriculum. Each of these algorithms is a discrete problem that can be solved in a number of ways using any of a number of programming languages. In m...

Here are some notes I wrote for a freeCodeCamp tutorial on the use of HelmetJS and BCrypt as tools for ensuring website security. The same notes, along with the code, can be found in this GitHub repository.

These algorithms are from a Udemy.com course titled Learning Algorithms in JavaScript From Scratch. Each algorithm is assigned a separate folder, index.html file, and main.js file. (I have also, now, copied all the code to repl.it files and linked them on t...

Let me riff a bit on playing the guitar again. I go through these awful periods where I don’t play guitar. In fact, I haven’t played any guitar in more than six months. It always helps to get out of these non-guitar funks if I have some sort of plan as to w...

This is possibly the second blog post for me today. I tried out Adobe InCopy when I wrote this morning (meh…), so this time around I am using draftin.com to write something. Again, I’m not sure how this is an improvement over writing with MSWord or with Goo...

Let me try writing an entire blog post worth of words, just testing out the software a bit. This thing has word count, so I just need to drone on a bit until I reach my 500-word minimum. Still, I’m just freewriting, but freewriting with a direction in mind.

I don’t have a lot to say other than it has been a while since I have written a post for this blog. If this blog was a baby I could be charged with neglect.

I’m in between teaching classes just now, eating my lunch and fucking around. I haven’t written a post for this blog for quite a while, so let me write a bit and see how it turns out.

I’ve been working for the past few days to reorganize all my notes on various coding tutorials, creating README files and making sure all the repositories are up and running. Let me list and link all the repos here so I have a central listing of all the cod...

I thought I might as well blog this. These are notes for a Udemy course titled JavaScript Interview Prep. The answers below are coded out on the Repl.it and Codepen websites. I have added hyperlinks to each of the code examples.

I have been trying to get back into the habit of exercising regularly, but my back went out this past week. Finally, today I feel like I can do it. I went to the gym a few days ago, but I couldn’t complete even the most basic workout. Today I should do some...

Just like yesterday, I’m going to write this post as quickly as I can. Let me just keep going until I have my required 500 words, and then I’m done.