After what simultaneously felt like two weeks, and two years, I finally graduated from Flatiron’s software engineering program, yay! As I began working on my resume, and everything else I needed to accomplish before I could officially begin my job search, I realized a couple of things: 1. The bootcamp…

I always wondered how websites created those cool, moving, constellation-looking, backgrounds. After some digging, I discovered react-particles-js, a React-ified version of the lightweight tsParticles library used for creating particle effects. tsParticles is a TypeScript library based off of Particles.js. It provides the same functionalities as Particles.js but wraps them nicely…

Javascript can do a lot of cool things. The introduction of the canvas element in HTML5 expanded what we can do with Javascript even further. So what is a canvas element? It’s an element that acts as a container for javascript drawn graphics. Although we won’t demonstrate this here, you…

We’re going to make a simple sort drop down with two options using form_with, a rails form helper. Before we get started, what exactly is form_with and why is it useful? Prior to Rails 5.1, we had only form_for and form_tag form helpers. form_for is used to create and update…

After watching my bootcamp instructor highlight 10 words in as many sentences, all in about half a second, I knew I needed to step up my shortcut game. A quick Google search for MacBook keyboard shortcuts left me feeling a bit overwhelmed, so I decided to do a little research…