BlogHide Resteemsbornatforty (31)in blog • 5 years agoMonkey Bikes and the Power of Having Good StoriesOnly in the last few years have I realized that a good life is made of good stories. Don't get me wrong: accomplishments are nice. Having a great job title can be pretty cool too. Being rich is…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoAfter the Bootcamp, Episode 5I'm not dead, I've just been working. I'm trying to change that for all of us. Time flies and I had no idea that my last post was three months ago and a lot has happened since my last post. I…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoAfter the Bootcamp, Episode 4My weeks since graduation have been spent sending out resumes, building things, meeting people and trying to stay positive. One thing I have noticed is how my skills as a front-end developer…bornatforty (31)in bitcoin • 6 years agoGoing All-In on the Crypto LifestyleI'm about one month removed from Hoshocon, a crypto and cybersecurity conference that was held for the first time here in Las Vegas. This conference gathered business leaders, advocates, and…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoAfter the Bootcamp, Episode 4Learning is a thing that never ends. There are new technologies coming up DAILY in web development. Therefore... You are always going to be finding things you don't know. And that…bornatforty (31)in life • 6 years agoAfter the Bootcamp, Episode 3Attending my first developer's conference like Everything is new and exciting. Even going from one conference room to the next is kinda fun. What's gonna happen in there? Will there be slides…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoAfter the Bootcamp, Episode 2When you are pushing forward, take a second to look back and see how far you have come. Not exactly the same thing but you get the idea. Today I went to an "Intro to React" meetup. This was…bornatforty (31)in life • 6 years agoAfter the Bootcamp, Episode 1Me after coming back from Hawaii... I was away from Github for only a week and I already feel like I have no idea what a for-loop is. Let this be advice for anyone finishing a bootcamp: ride…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 64 (and 65)Technically the bootcamp is over so I didn't miss any days of blogging. You can't take that away from me. I'll be on vacation from this weekend and gone for a whole week. So no blogging while I…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 63A day without code? Today was focused almost entirely on my resume. I'd always felt that my resume was pretty weak because I've never been good at explaining the things I can do. For example…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 62So yesterday I signed up for the MS JavaScript cert exam. Today was that exam. I guess its technically not possible to fail "hard". You either pass or you don't. And I didn't. I'm not sure how…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 61Now that class is out what do I do with my time? I suppose I have a subconscious desire to be in class, even when there is no actual class. Because both of my instructors are off for most of…bornatforty (31)in life • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 60The past 12 weeks has been an epic journey. And any epic deserves a final credits scene to give thanks to the people and events that helped in the production of this epic. First I would like to…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 59Pack up the truck boys. Its finally over! 11 weeks of hard work, constant studying and praying to whatever God out there will listen is finally over. Today was our presentation and we KILLED…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 58A day without code? Because I respect the code freeze (except for a few minutes first thing in the morning) I did not touch any of the code on our desktop site or the mobile app. It is the…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 57Tonight is my final night of writing code for this project. As of 9:00am Wednesday morning we are officially on code freeze and not even allowed to breathe on our JSX. And that means my 12 week…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 56Commitment issues are just as detrimental to a project as they are to a relationship. The first 80% of the day was me fixing styles and working on both the desktop version of our project and…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 55I'm writing this blog from campus. In the other room there is a live podcast being recorded. Social media everywhere! I took on a few issues with our final project. Styling for the page will…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 54When someone tells you that you are good at something it tends to be the first step towards you actually becoming very good at it. Its almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Early on in the…bornatforty (31)in blog • 6 years agoPunchcode Programming Bootcamp, Day 53Sometimes even a Front-End dev bootcamp can have a slow news day. Our project is at this weird Lagrangian point where there is a pull to continue work on the MVP and finish ironing out the…
