Happy Halloween! 🎃

Halfway through my full-stack web development bootcamp at Tech Elevator! It’s mind-blowing how much they’ve taught us in just 7 weeks. I’m LOVING the combination of creativity and attention to detail that’s required in software development!

Hey, go see Dune so they make the next one quickly!

I guess this makes me a knot knerd. 🪢

So this is 30!

Greater JOMO has no one than this: that one lay down their Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter profiles for their sanity.

Anyone have opinions about using Jekyll and GitHub to get a static site up and running? What’s your favorite, quickest, easiest way to get a simple and good-looking website up?

Y’all can I just say how wonderful micro.blog’s quiet, peaceful vibe is?! I quit Facebook and Twitter a few weeks ago and it is just so nice not even knowing what I should be mad about on any given day.

Officially a Steelers fan now. We live in Pittsburgh. My last name is Steele. It just makes sense! 🏈

Week 1 of my Tech Elevator Java boot camp has gone well! We’ve covered bash/command line, Git, variables, data types, expressions, type conversion, boolean expressions, conditional code, blocks, methods, arrays, and loops! Today we learn how to build command line programs!

Anyone have a favorite Git commands cheat sheet? Favorite Bash/Command Line cheat sheet? I’m thinking something that a newbie developer (like myself) might print off and have next to their computer.

Book reviews should not be nearly as long as the book being reviewed.

The Sermon on the Mount is the true knowledge of good and evil.

In Genesis 1-3, Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command, grasping after the knowledge of good and evil out of self-justifying, divided motives. They wanted to serve God, but on their own terms.

This led to division — between God, creation, other humans, and our very selves — yielding the kind of world where the Beatitudes are shocking observations.

But, in Matthew 5-7, Christ calls us back to wholeness. Single minded obedience — especially in “secret,” vs. public attempts to earn both God’s favor and human admiration (double-minded religion!).

Will we receive this knowledge of good and evil as enough? Or will we use our usurped “knowledge” to try to get behind and beyond the word of the Lord?

What’s a good drip coffee maker for $100 or less? Don’t always feel like using my Chemex or Aeropress in the morning…

True Christian freedom is the freedom to lay one’s life down for the sake of others. Christ sets us free FROM the heart turning in on itself. We are free FOR our neighbor.

Excited to begin my coding bootcamp soon! I’m in Tech Elevator’s full-stack Java cohort.