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The UX/UI Curriculum
In my decade as a software engineer I have primarily focused on backend development. Though I did occasionally work on projects that required touching frontend code, it rarely had to do with implementing designs from scratch. As a result I became aware of how CSS and HTML work but did not gain a deep knowledge…
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Compost Theory of Life
When you are composting there are two types of materials that you need to include: browns and greens. The browns are your sticks, your cardboard, paper, egg shells, coffee grounds, dried leaves. These are the things that left to their own devices will just sit there doing nothing. They are stable. The greens are the…
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Career Transition
It feels scary to admit out loud but sometimes you just have to be brave. For over ten years now I have been a software engineer, primarily focusing on backend engineering. Basically, I worked on the stuff that made the various sites I worked on work. It’s the data flows and data processing. It’s the…
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Botanical Obsession
As the weather turned warmer, I naturally became obsessed with plants again and have been painting them pretty much to the exclusion of all else. Here are a few of my recent paintings in watercolor! All of these I painted from my own reference photographs. The hydrangeas especially took forever because I was really focusing…
