Feb 24, 2022How to Build a Major Scale Anywhere on the Guitar without Memorizing PatternsMany times, guitar beginners somehow get it stuck in their heads that in order to be proficient at soloing, they have to memorize scores of different “maps” of the fretboard. I’m not saying that was me…but that was me Tell me if this looks familiar:Guitar7 min readGuitar7 min read
Feb 21, 2022How to Build “Wordle” Using ReactJS and About 200 Lines of Sloppy CodeFor the last couple of weeks, my news feed has been cluttered full of headlines gushing about this “new” game called Wordle. I just checked, and it’s still making news headlines as recently as six minutes ago. Go figure. Programmers will recognize it immediately as a clone of the game…React16 min readReact16 min read
Dec 10, 2020How to Use Mysql Password Encryption with NodeJS, Express and BcryptNote: this article begins after you’ve setup and coded an Express Router on a NodeJS server and written an API that connects to a mysql database Now that we’ve got our sexy app up and running, we want to make it a little more sophisticated. We didn’t bother to include…React5 min readReact5 min read
Jul 16, 2020Why You Should Love (Not Fear) “Interview Questions”Yay, Me! This will be my last blog post for my enrollment at good ‘ol Austin Coding Academy. I submitted my final project, a puzzle game called Puzlr yesterday and this post is the last assignment. Later they’ll make a video of its functionality for the graduation ceremony and I’ll get me…Austin Coding Academy5 min readAustin Coding Academy5 min read
Jul 12, 2020Manipulating Array Elements During Mapping in ReactProblem: What we’re going to be running into today is what to do when you have an array of elements to map, but you want to do something to each one first. The Example: I’ve been making a React app called Swars out of the Star Wars API. That’s an excellent API, btw…Coding3 min readCoding3 min read
Published inWebtips·Jul 6, 2020Member-onlyHow to Use Recursion in Javascript: A Practical ApplicationDisclaimer: I got involved in some new-feature development on my good ‘ol Capstone App for Austin Coding Academy this weekend. This left me inspirationally drained and intellectually worn out enough that I almost completely forgot I had a blog post to write as well. I’m losin’ it, here… I usually cover…Austin Coding Academy5 min readAustin Coding Academy5 min read
Published inWebtips·Jun 29, 2020Member-onlyHow to Assign an Avatar and Shield Based on Username in ReactAbstract: At some point by now you’ve probably signed up for a website and been automatically assigned an avatar as a “placeholder” until you supply your own. Here’s an example if you don’t know what I’m talking about:Austin Coding Academy7 min readAustin Coding Academy7 min read
Jun 21, 2020How to Pass Props Through React-Router Path LinksIntroduction So you’ve got your amazing app all refactored into components and you’ve set up react-router to provide you a path to all your different pages. That’s great! But then you find out that one of your pages needs to redirect the user to another page along with some props that…Austin Coding Academy6 min readAustin Coding Academy6 min read
Published inThe Startup·Jun 18, 2020Member-onlyHow to Add a Heatmap to Your Covid Tracker Using ReactIntro: Have you heard that old joke recently? Q: “What does a programmer do while in quarantine?” 6:00AM — wake up 6:30AM — Shower, breakfast, coffee 7:00AM — build the first Covid tracker of the day I’m in this joke — and I like it! So today, instead of just reading…Austin Coding Academy11 min readAustin Coding Academy11 min read
Jun 8, 2020How to Use Recursive Components in React to Display Deeply Nested DataI’m sure you’ve experienced the sudden nightmare when you make an API call and the data that gets returned contains an array in it with more data. Then you open that array and it’s filled with more arrays with more data. And then each one of those data elements is…React8 min readReact8 min read
