I was introduced to this technical challenge by Andre Iskandar who forwarded me the advertised role and technical challenge from Shopify located here. These kinds of technical challenges I am viewing as an awesome opportunity to push my learning and problem solving skills further as well as keep fresh on…

How to format an image to be a link in markdown — I am currently working on learning Hugo following along with Build Websites with Hugo by Brian P. Hogan. This was introduced to me by Tomas Gallucci last year. Towards the end of the previous year I got up to about the 3rd chapter of the book. …

I wanted to learn a bit more about Continuous Integration Pipelines, so I took the opportunity with Nicole Woodcock working on MB Javascript Hacks: Social Justice Hack Week. What is Continuous Integration? Continuous integration safely allows multiple users to contribute to one repository on Github. In essence continuous integration gives us a safety net…

Mintbean Campus JavaScript Playoffs: Build a Beat Machine — Recently I completed my third hackathon with Mintbean.io. The challenge was to build a Beat Machine in 1 week. The application had to be a front end web application, no backend or server/serverless components were allowed to be used. You can play with BeatJuice here 👉 : https://lnkd.in/gTE8iU9 The tech…

Continuing on from Part 1 and Part 2 , Part 3 will be focused on: Adding and detecting scores Indicating which side a player starts on via colours Serving the ball from a player perspective Serving the ball from beginning of the game Serving the ball once scored against Game…

Continuing on from Part 1 getting started with Phaser.JS and making the modifications today’s post will be focused on the addition of a second paddle and writing some code for an AI, replacing the star sprite with a ball and adding a couple of sound effects. Making the AI Paddle Switch around the paddle…

As a recent graduate from Lighthouse Labs’ web development bootcamp I am currently working on challenging myself by entering Mintbean.io’s Hackathons. You sign up for a weekly challenge and each Friday a new challenge is revealed. There are limitations, user stories and guidelines to submit your project. This week the…

What Are Assistance Requests? This year I made the challenging decision to pivot my career into web development, first completing an intro to web development course with Lighthouse Labs’ in July 2020 and then a 12 week bootcamp in full stack development in November 2020. In my previous career I…