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One code at a time

Eric Cordoba — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:15:38 +0000

Happy Monday Morning!

Over the weekend i thought about some of the things i want to do in the future. I know i want to start inventing again like i did when i was young. When i was a kid i would try to create or invent anything. Usually the things i made or had ideas for weren't related. I just had ideas and chased my thoughts.

Thinking about everything i want to do in the future makes me impatient and overwhelmed at the same time. I want to make apps and websites. I have new ideas allll the time for new products. A lot of the time i forget my ideas because i have so many. My hope is that i'm only months away from making these things happen.

My biggest challenge right now is working in a group. I rarely find people i can work with because i feel like my creative process gets interrupted. I have to remember that we need each other to push to the next level. If we were truly alone doing this there wouldn't be much point. I think this is do-able :) .. One code at a time.

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New Beginnings

Eric Cordoba — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:39:57 +0000

Happy Monday morning!

Today is my first day of computer programming bootcamp. I have been anxious to start this class for the last few weeks. So far i have learned a little bit of code and how programmers use different processes to build products and applications.

I've been cooking for the past 18 years so jumping into this should be a little bit different to say the least. Since i started studying programming i have been looking at the world a little more differently. I can see how coding effects the whole world. Coding is at the center of almost everything people are doing nowadays. Nine to five jobs are becoming less and less. To me its a no brainer to sit behind the keyboard. I have been using computers since i was 7 years old. I remember windows 95 and the star screen saver.and just a few years after that i was downloading music illegally from Napster. Then in high school i started doing light music production on the computer. The only reason i wanted to cook was because of the people i was surrounded by. These were some very interesting people. A whole group of people made up of foodies, uneducated people with drug problems and single parents. No these aren't the only types of people working there but these are the people with very colored back stories. Something about all of this made me want to learn more. Needless to say, i've had just about enough of this life because these people are not the same as they used to be. I am very scared for the service industry in the future and I'm anxious to leave it behind and only cook for me and my family at home.

So today I will start on a new path and a brighter future. I am ready to leave an old world job and start a new adventure with new beginnings.

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Pushing it to the limit

Eric Cordoba — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:48:49 +0000

Hey Guys!

So recently i had a huge wipe out this past Summer. My iMac crashed while i was on the phone with Apple Support because they gave me bad advice. This nightmare lasted about a month because so many people didn't know how to fix my problem and i had no one else to turn to. I ended up swapping out my 2T HD for a 1T HD because they stopped making the drive i needed and didn't have anymore in back stock. Just my luck. Fast forward to yesterday, my iMac crashes after loading Google Chrome. So i hustled to check out the memory, storages and caches. After going through all that I was running sys disgnose and first aids, i still couldn't find much that was slowing it down.

I think there a few things working against me. The iMac is 5 years old now. It has an outdated system that they don't make anymore. The HD was replaced. The screen was replaced. I added a 4T Lacie external HD. I've swapped the memory twice at this point. I'm running 128 GB of memory. It's sad but i think i have to keep my credit card ready incase i have to get a new machine. After already dropping $1K this summer on the machine, i'm so exhausted with it.

The one thing that gives me a lot of hope about things like this is the fact that soon i'll be able to conquer these issues with more knowledge and more experience. Working in the command line makes me feel like i can make bigger changes and make bigger leaps when its comes the machine slowing down. For now, i'm pushing it to the limit.

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My 2nd

Eric Cordoba — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:45:17 +0000

Im going to get personal on here because i don't really know what else to say. I have never liked going to school or listening to a lecture. My mind couldn't stay still. I was always thinking about other things or having day dreams. The more my life went on, the more my life started to fall apart. School became something that filled me up with anxiety to the point where i would be sick . I did whatever i could to get my high school diploma and end this cycle that i was reliving year after year.

I thought i was ready to go to college but then my mother got breast cancer and again i couldn't face life. It was like everyt time i wanted to keep going and keep learning something bad happened. Because my life was so depressing i ran from school.

We all deal with things in our life differently. I couldn't handle my brother and my father dying and then my mom getting breast cancer. theres no one left in my family.what would you do? how would you feel? would you care, anymore?

Amazingly enough i sadly carried on and made it all the way to 37. I owe the last two years of my life to my wife. She gave me the strength and the courage i needed to turn my life around. The career im in doesn't make enough money, its outdated, overly-stressful and and the economy is going to the dumps.

I am transitioning out of that life. I have to leave it behind. I have to have a growth-mindset. I am going to turn my life around for my 2nd half.

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The little things

Eric Cordoba — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:38:58 +0000

This whole year i have been trying to figure out what it is i want to do. Im 37 years old and i cant do the job i've been doing anymore. I have been cooking for 18 years and im tired of it. I have been a musical person since i was very young and its a passion i still haven't lost. But when i really examine the things that make me happy and give me life its just being able to create something. If i can just create something i lose all track of time and space.

I have been writing music since high school. It started out with just making beats and instrumentals. When i had over 100 beats i needed someone too rap on them. I started to write my own lyrics and years later i ended up working alone on projects. Main reason being, i couldn't find people with the same motivation and the same creative process as me. Fast forward to this summer, i have been started to working with AI prompts and different styles of AI art.

This photo is partly the work of my brain. It took a few prompts to get here but when i arrived i felt like i had arrived at my next career. The fact is i couldn't believe that this photo happened. It had come out better than what i had hoped. This mad me feel confident that i could still hone my creative skills into a new career path. A new home and a new playspace where the new me can enjoy the little things.

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