Alex Morton

Hey I'm Alex!

California native lost in France Joined on Dec 2, 2019 http://alexlsalt.github.io

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Work

Software Engineer @ Orbit

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Jan 30 '21

The Importance of Slowing (Way!) Down as a Junior Software Engineer

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Dec 21 '20

It's Official: I'm a Software Engineer!

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Dec 5 '20

A Beautiful Connection Between Coding and Embroidery

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Jul 29 '20

The True Secret to Learning How To Code

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Jul 23 '20

Being Utterly Fearless in Your Pursuit of Learning to Code with Alex Morton

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Apr 19 '21

10 Things I've Learned After 3 Months as a Junior Software Engineer

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Dreams about coding solutions?

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Apr 14 '21

MonarchMap: Help save the Monarch butterfly with New Relic 🦋

Always love your projects, Emma!!! Great work!

Feb 26 '21

The Recipe for Coming Up with Great Coding Solutions

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Feb 18 '21

First Day as a Junior Developer

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Feb 18 '21

The Importance of Slowing (Way!) Down as a Junior Software Engineer

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Jan 30 '21

10 Women in Tech to Follow on DEV!

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Jan 30 '21

Kick-starting Your New Developer Job with these Essential Tips

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Jan 18 '21

First Day as a Junior Developer

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Alex Morton

Apr 14 '21

Reuniting with an old friend over coding

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Apr 12 '21

Dreams about coding solutions?

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Mar 29 '21

The Only Way Out is Through!

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Mar 22 '21

Always Chipping Away at Finding that Balance

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Mar 15 '21

Got Myself into a Pickle Last Week!

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Mar 11 '21

Two Months into Software Engineering!

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Mar 6 '21

Collab Lab: Cohort 19 Recap (Winter 2021)

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Feb 26 '21

Debugging: What's the Simplest Explanation?

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Feb 22 '21

5 Tips for Getting Through a Tough Coding Issue

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Feb 18 '21

"How can I communicate this as clearly as possible?"

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Feb 15 '21

The Recipe for Coming Up with Great Coding Solutions

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Feb 10 '21

Rails, Relaxing & Reading

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Feb 9 '21

A Test-Driven Take on Learning

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Feb 4 '21

Digging in to Objects and Classes in Ruby

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Feb 2 '21

The Secret to a Successful Self-Taught Coding Journey

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Jan 28 '21

One Step at a Time, Always

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Jan 25 '21

First Impressions of Test Driven Development (TDD)

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Jan 22 '21

Keyboard Drama & More Setup Mayhem

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Jan 20 '21

Trying to Be a Good Friend to Myself as a Junior Developer

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Jan 20 '21

Saving Creative Work for the Weekends

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Jan 15 '21

Prioritizing Work Tasks & Learning Ruby

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Jan 11 '21

6 Key Takeaways from My First Week as a Junior Software Engineer

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Jan 8 '21

I Merged My First PRs at Work!

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Jan 8 '21

Local Set-Up: Check!

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Jan 5 '21

First Day as a Junior Developer

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Jan 2 '21

Starting My Career as a Software Engineer & Feeling Magical!

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Dec 28 '20

Wrapping Up 2020

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Dec 7 '20

Confession: I Don't Know Where to Even Begin with Testing My Code

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Dec 4 '20

Slow and Steady with Redux

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Nov 23 '20

Spotify Project Idea Coming to Life in My Brain

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Nov 20 '20

Redux, Rails, and A New Project Idea!

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Nov 13 '20

Job-Searchin' (and a New Mini-Project!)

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Nov 9 '20

A Week Off From Coding Ft. Embroidery and Colored Pencils

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Oct 26 '20

So You Think You Can France is Pretty Much Done!

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Oct 22 '20

A Little Break & Dream-Coding

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Oct 20 '20

React Rebuild, React Router and Git, Oh My!

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Oct 19 '20

Why Pivot When I Can Dive So Much Deeper?

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Oct 15 '20

Finishing Up Pure React and Musings on What's Next

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Oct 14 '20

A Couple of Sweet Victories Yesterday

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Oct 12 '20

Serverless Functions Saved My Life

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Oct 9 '20

How Can I Access Environment Variables in My Static Website?

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Oct 8 '20

Almost Finished Working My Way Through Pure React!

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Oct 7 '20

Take That, Procrastination!

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Oct 6 '20

How Much State is Too Much State in React?

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Oct 1 '20

Pure React and Data Transfer (Still...)

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Sep 30 '20

Just Gotta Keep Working at It!

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Sep 25 '20

Chipping Away to Eventually Get to Where I Want to Go!

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Sep 24 '20

React Hooks and Considering Different Ways to Store Data

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Sep 22 '20

Data Structures Micro-Course: Check!

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Sep 21 '20

'Do the Thing and You'll Have the Power'

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Sep 15 '20

Today's Work: Data Structures, Data Transferring, and React

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Sep 14 '20

Continuing with React & Starting My Latest Side Project!

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Sep 11 '20

The ~Magic~ of React Hooks: I May Now Be a Believer

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Sep 10 '20

Looking to Land Your First Dev Job? Set Yourself Apart

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Sep 9 '20

Learning About APIs and Hooks in React

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Sep 8 '20

Loving React & Ready to Start a Big New Project!

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Sep 4 '20

A Fun Friday Accomplishment!

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Sep 2 '20

Still Working - Slow and Focused

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Sep 1 '20

Let's Talk About Perfectionism

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