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I started learning to code in the summer of 2016 when I took a course from EdX called LFS 101 - Linux for Starters. I enjoyed coding and decided I'd learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I spent a year learning vanilla JS and CSS before moving on to jQuery and Bootstrap so I knew what was happening under the hood. It wasn't long before I started learning Git and GitHub.
Being a single father who worked 12 hour days, I didn't have a lot of time to devote to learning. However, I built several projects, some of which you can view on my portfolio, and earned the following certifications from freeCodeCamp during that time: |
This is where it all started. Bus number 42.
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Front End (Legacy) |
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Front End Development Libraries |
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Responsive Web Design |
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JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures |
I have now Earned my Full-Stack Web Development certification from Bloomtech and I am freelancing as Studio42 Dev. I build small websites, apps, and other projects for clients including APIs, databases, and mobile applications built in Flutter.
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I live in a tiny little town of just over 150 people and volunteer on my local fire department. I am trained in CPR, Basic Life Support, and first aid as well as extrication and traffic incident management. As it turns out, I can still manage to look goofy in structural gear. I also serve on the board of the Colorado State Fire Fighters Association as the District 2 Representative and volunteer with the American Red Cross as a Shelter DCS (Disaster Cycle Services) Member and DAT (Disaster Action Team) Service Associate. I'm a Linux fan but I like to play games too, and while you can play most titles on Linux, you can't play them all so I dual-boot on my PC. Also, I must like suffering because I dual-boot on my PC and do my own mechanical work on my Volkswagen. |
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Dune |
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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy |
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War and Peace |
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The Pearl |
I love ThunderCats, Star Wars, Robot Chicken, and documentaries. I love cooking, and not cooking. I love to sing. I've only seen the first three Harry Potter movies, and I'm good with that. I vehemently dislike auto-tune, reality TV, and that plastic film that my friends never take off of their electronics.
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Fedora (RHEL) with KDE Plasma Desktop | My daily driver. Beautiful, powerful, and easy to use. No wonder Linus uses it. |
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Ubuntu Budgie | Highly customizable and easy to use with some really nice quality of life features. |
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Garuda KDE Dr460nized (Arch) | The OS made for Linux Gamers |
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Manjaro (Arch) Gnome | Highly polished and easy to use Arch distro. |
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PeppermintOS (Debian) | Super lightweight, yet powerful and fully featured. I run this on one of my decade+ old computers, of which I have a few - can't seem to get rid of them. |
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React | The best JavaScript library for building user interfaces. |
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Chakra UI | A beautiful, accessible, and performant UI library for React. |
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Materialize CSS | A responsive, mobile-first front-end framework based on Material Design. |
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Express.js | A minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. |
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Sass | A CSS pre-processor, written in Ruby. |
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GSAP | A library of animation and transformation effects for the web. |
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Knex.js | A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server. |
This is anything but an exhaustive list.
- freeCodeCamp
- Wes Bos
- The Net Ninja
- EdX
- Khan Academy
- The Linux Foundation
- You Don't Know JS
- Eloquent JavaScript
- Web Dev Simplified
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Since you stuck around, here's a poorly edited video I made as as part of the Career Readiness portion of my Bloom Institute of Technology curriculum: