I almost forgot to blog today haha. Please expect not as daily blogs now since there won’t be as much content on a day-to-day basis. I’ll still do my best however. App Academy is experimenting with a new pilot program, coined the “Graduate Job Seeker Program.” This program is a four week program where you’re […]

The end of Week X Day X titles are here! And with it marks the ‘official’ unofficial graduation, and start of my first week as a graduated job seeker. I have some exciting news for tomorrow’s post, which is everything that happened today, but that’s tomorrow. Today’s post, which happened yesterday, is a BUNCH of […]

The Google meetup was absolutely dope. It was an incredible opportunity to network and learn about some of the technologies that Google Software Engineers have been working on. The two topics of interest for the meetup was Google Cloud, as well as Firebase. Both topics were incredibly interesting, but my top two takeaways weren’t actually […]

I think I have a pretty solid game plan of how to attack my projects and finish them in a timely manner. With the help of one of the career coaches, we were able to segment my long list of to-dos into a structured execution plan. We’ll start by finishing up my JS project this […]

The struggles of being a Hacker-in-Residence. I’m really starting to feel like I’m falling behind. Granted, I’m kind of comparing myself to my peers who aren’t hackers. But heck, even then, compared to my hacker peers, I’m also slightly behind. And the culprit for dragging me so far behind is my JavaScript project. Majority of […]

So I’m going to be honest, I got nothing done… haha. Last night, after our weekly Taco night, I came home with a massive food coma. First time it’s actually happened, but I knocked out after watching 15 minutes of the night’s video and… I didn’t wake up until 7am this morning. I’ll get everyone […]

Week 13?! Yep, you read that right. Whatever happened to the 12 week program? Well, App Academy’s always improving their curriculum, and this is one of those improvements. Rather than cramming as much as they can in three weeks, they’ve extended the Job Search Curriculum by one week so that they can accommodate the job […]

Real talk though, on Friday I had the incredible opportunity to visit Ancestry’s office and tour the place, and holy crap, it’s absolutely beautiful. At first, all I wanted was Google, since it’s touted as the epitome of a Software Engineer’s career. With Google under your name, you’re set for life, anywhere and everywhere. It’s […]

It’s official! We have graduated from App Academy. It definitely feels surreal… and yet, it also feels like we haven’t graduated since we still have to show up to class for another week, and then do regular check-ins during our job search. I’m definitely not complaining, this is after all, what I signed up for. […]

This is going to be a quick one! It’s great to re-visit LRU Cache. Learning all about these principles has me excited to learn more. Ever since I started programming, I lamented that I didn’t consider Computer Science in my undergrad, not that I regret my previous choice, it was the direction I wanted to […]