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4 Skills New Developers Need to Succeed in Web Development

For those of you who dream of sitting at a computer, with your VS code editor open, writing the code for the software/program that will eventually be the next Google or Netflix, let me give you some useful advice. Here are 4 skills new, aspiring coders/programmers need to succeed in their quest of becoming awesome... Continue Reading →

Writing Opposite Langston Hughes, Poetically or โ€œA Quiet Longing for Lifeโ€

I took the last line of a poem by Langston Hughes (โ€œand death a note unsaidโ€ from his โ€œNote in Musicโ€ poem) and wrote the opposite of that one line. The rest justโ€ฆflowed out. Life was many whispers saidin the palms of everyonewho lived and loved you,both out loud and in secret. And those whisperswere... Continue Reading →

Dear Danny (Anger and the Beginning of Acceptance After A Friend’s Suicide)

Dear Danny, I had to work today. I dreaded it cuz itโ€™s nearing Thanksgiving and you know how the store gets near the holidays. Everybody and they mama is in the store, buying up all the groceries, and just chaos everywhere. Iโ€™m dreading Wednesday. I have a 3-hour shift but Iโ€™m so dreading itโ€ฆ I... Continue Reading →

A Letter to a Friend Who Decided Life was Too Much & Killed Himself (Dear Danny)

Dear Danny, I thoughtโ€ฆI thought I could write about this but I donโ€™t think I can. My mind is still mush and my heart is halfway attached to my torn sleeve and halfway on the floor, a trail of dried blood following me. I canโ€™t do thisโ€ฆ *** Suicide justโ€ฆ hits differently than regular death.... Continue Reading →

When the Writer Uses Programming to Cope with PTSD

If I can control the external environment in front of me, namely my laptop, maybe I can control the inner, darker parts of me too. With Halloween being tomorrow, and the day not quite being over yet, I need all the light and promise programming offers that I can get.

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