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Day 27

tim mahoney — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 02:54:59 +0000

Day 27 of #100daysofcode. Completed the React section of front end dev libraries section of @freeCodeCamp

Day 26

tim mahoney — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:52:52 +0000

Day 26 of #100daysofcode Built a simple counter in React on @freeCodeCamp. Had to take off yesterday, bronchitis is kicking my butt

Day 25 #100 days of code

tim mahoney — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:45:39 +0000

Day 25 #100DaysOfCode passing state as props & learning about life cycle methods in React on @freeCodeCamp

Day 17

tim mahoney — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 01:30:38 +0000

Day 17 #100daysofcoding Completed the jQuery & sass sections of @freeCodeCamp

Intermediate JS Algorithms Scripting

tim mahoney — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 01:31:44 +0000

Day 15 of #100daysofcoding. Completed the Intermediate JS Algorithms Scripting section of @freeCodeCamp. Was pretty difficult tbh, needed a lot of Google help. Tomorrow I'll start on the 5 projects required to get the JS certificate.

Day 9

tim mahoney — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:49:32 +0000

Day 9 of #100daysofcoding read a little Typescript documentation, solved 1 JS basic algorithm scripting problem on @freeCodeCamp & did some CSS changes on the calculator app. Missed the challenge yesterday due to being Comic Con, then passing out

Day 5

tim mahoney — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:49:54 +0000

Day 5 of #100daysofcoding. Wrapped up listening to the @FrontendMasters boot camp but still have to do the exercises. Halfway through @freeCodeCamp Basic Algorithm Scripting section & spending extra time on the sort & reduce methods

JS array methods

tim mahoney — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:51:05 +0000

Day 3 of #100daysofcoding played with JS array methods push, pop, shift, unshift, & splice on @freeCodeCamp

JS debugging

tim mahoney — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:43:03 +0000

Day 2 of #100daysofcoding #100daysofcode Learned debugging JS skills on #freeCodeCamp & just getting started on the basic data structures section

Back 2 school

tim mahoney — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:59:52 +0000

Last week I started up what will hopefully be my penultimate semester at college. I've completed all of my bullshit boring required classes like English and math which were damn near identical to one's I had in high school, except this time I got to pay for them. Now it's all meat, the good stuff. Web development 2 which is going hard into Javascript, node, jquery and React. I also have an entire class devoted to Javascript itself which is super exciting because it's deep into vanilla so while I'm getting the React training in web dev, I have the basic js knowledge to back it up and help make sense of it all. Then there's object oriented programming with Java. I'm not jazzed about Java, in fact when I took the beginner Java course last semester I damn near failed it. Not trying to shirk the blame but I feel a lot had to do with the professor being bored with his job & unhelpful to the students. My OOP professor this semester is a bit more fun, outspoken and genuinely enjoys programming. I've got high hopes for this class as I'm long overdue for learning some back end languages. Here's to a good semester, cheers!

Pain in the ass

tim mahoney — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:25:28 +0000

Sooooo... The other day I turned 42 & that was painful. The realization that time is rapidly deteriorating. Then I went to the dentist(I hate the dentist, face it, we all hate the dentist) on my birthday. The next day I went for a follow up colonoscopy, had one years ago & they found a polyp but it wasn't malignant so this was just a follow up. No issues this time either.
All of these things were a pain in the ass, figuratively and literally but none of it was as painful as trying to teach myself Javascript. I've got tons and tons of resources but they're each pulling my brain in a different direction. Udemy courses are good but I'll never learn from watching/listening. I think these would be better to enhance once I've already learned at least the basics. @freecodecamp is a wo derful resource but it's only testing what I know, it doesn't seem to adhere the info to my memory. Then there's countless apps on my phone I use but it's the same issue and the content never changes so I just end up memorizing their questions and not the actual information I need to apply in the real world.
I think it's time for me to finally just build an app, steel my nerves and fight with it until I've beaten into submission to a working state. It's such a humbling experience to be at this stage of my life to not know something, the feeling of defeat.

The peeps

tim mahoney — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 21:20:36 +0000

Hey peeps, this is gonna be my 2nd blog post and as I said I find it weird to write about yourself so I'm going to talk about other people. Like.. Omg.. Gossip...

Actually I want to talk about how incredibly awesome the dev community is and I'm sure you've heard that before & maybe even roll your eyes like "yeah dude, sure..." but my perspective here is of that of an outsider so to speak. I mean I like to think I'm part of the community now but I'm still learning the basics, still in school, and still looking for my 1st dev position.

As a chef there was this constant air of competition, which at times was healthy, but mostly destructive. Everyone thought their level of experience was greater than the next person and that their experience in xyz kitchen was at a higher level than someone who came from ABC kitchen. There was a story of this famous chef Grant Achatz from Alinea in Chicago who in his younger days went looking for a job at The French Laundry run by Chef Thomas Keller. Grant walks in, sees a guy sweeping the floors and asks to speak to the chef. Turns out the guy sweeping the floor was the chef, he never felt he was too good to help out with the lesser duties. It's a philosophy I've sort of adopted into my own life, a "we're all in this together" mentality.

It's that mentality that I've been seeing in the dev community. I kind of expected a lot of pushback initially being a stranger in a strange land, a sort unwelcoming to outsiders view. So far though the response is overwhelmingly positive, there's been a troll here or there but such is life & after being screamed at kitchens or had my food thrown at me or in the garbage I've grown a rather thick skin.

Honestly, from the moment I started talking about my journey on social media I've had several people reach out to me trying to help me along. I actually have a large list of names of folks that have gone above and beyond to help me in various ways and once I get that first dev job I'm going to do a giant shout out to them as gratitude. It's a bit weird... Growing in New Jersey, not exactly the friendliest state, usually when someone is being nice to you they want something from you but the dev community is just generally nice, they seem to want to mentor, grow the community and share their success. So... Thank you, all of you. Even if we've never spoken, thank you for helping others, for helping each other and for continually striving to better the community as a whole.