Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll
When I noticed that the hosting plan for the WordPress website where I kept my tech portfolio and blog was about to auto-renew for an embarrassingly high fee...
Blog
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2023
Black Magic Recordings’ Companion Web Application
When I want or need to learn a new technology, my favorite way to gain those skills is to come up with an idea for an application that interests me and then ...
2022
New Full Stack Serverless App: Most Supported Record Labels
To give some context for this personal learning project I recently started, over the last year, I’ve learned a lot about AWS and coding Python Lambda functio...
2021
Intersection of Music and Software Engineering
In January of my senior year at Colby College, I was a music teacher assistant at Warsaw Middle School in Pittsfield, Maine. My experience in that classroom ...
2020
New App: Music Updater
Today my company gave us a “Get Ahead Day.” I used this opportunity to hone my MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js (MERN stack) skills by creating a fun new...
Amazon EC2
After a several-month break from writing about AWS, I’m back for more posts. Since my last AWS post, I’ve been busy working on a MERN-stack application, star...
2019
New App: Memory Palace, a Memorization Aid
My favorite applications that I’ve created so far on my own serve a functional purpose. That’s why I built Discog-ify — that application helps people discove...
AWS IAM API Keys & STS
I gave an overview of IAM (Identity & Access Management) in my last post, but I left two concepts out: IAM API Keys and STS (Security Token Service). Thi...
AWS Account & Services
In my last post, I described why and how I would prepare for my AWS Certified Developer - Associate level exam. I’ve made it through almost half of that Linu...
AWS Certification: Why and How
The number of technologies available for individuals to learn is staggering, so it’s easy to get lost in the forest of languages, frameworks, and other tools...
Update: May 2019
In my last post from March 2018, I was in the midst of learning Java Spring. A lot has changed in the last year.
2018
My Spring Journey: Entity Relationships
Over the last month, I have continued poking around the Spring Petclinic application, using it as a model for my own project, Beat Browser. I borrowed a lot ...
My Spring Journey: Introduction
I started getting back into Java this year. A mentor recommended that I work with the Java Spring framework. To familiarize myself with Spring, I did what I ...