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Twilio, a lovely platform
I discovered Twilio a couple years ago when beginning to build my app, Alertyoself. Twilio is a cloud communication platform that handles the difficulty for you. (This is not a paid advertisement, I just really like their service) Recently, I played with their new verification service, and I admit it is pretty nice. To be…
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Big Step in FreeCodeCamp!
I have been slacking. I can justify the heck out of it, but that does not change the fact that there is no GOOD reason for being lazy the last 30 days or so. But now that I am getting back in the driver’s seat, a big step has finally been completed on FreeCodeCamp. I…
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Backend Check In
Since my last post, I have kept at it, building the backend to my app (and rebuilding the app itself). A lot of time has been taken up by figuring out what to use. I believe I have settled on Alamofire for the network connection to the “API” (quotes are used here because it is not…
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Feeling of Accomplishment
A milestone has been reached! I have successfully posted a virtualenv flask app to a web server, able to access it via a domain name, and installed an SSL cert from Let’s Encrypt. My happiness sounds more dramatic than it is, but i was stuck on getting the app hosted for longer than I want…
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Evolution of My View of Programming
An interesting thing happened yesterday… The backstory: I was instructed to change some titles on webpages for the day job, and they needed to be under 60 characters. There are PLENTY of places online where I could have entered text to get a character count, but I thought to myself, “I know how to do this in…
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Finally, a post about wordpress…
This post is work related, and as you can tell by the title, relates to wordpress. On the work blog, we had social media sharing buttons. One of the bosses used an SEO program to scan the site, and the social media buttons returned less than favorable data. (I am purposefully not mentioning the site,…
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Back at it…
It has been a while since I’ve posted, and there is no good excuse. In the interim, I have completed a couple more courses on Udemy, but did not find them to be very compelling. The topics were interesting, but the takeaway was only mildly beneficial. (Was it the teacher, or the student?…) Either way, I want…
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No Replacement for the Real Thing
If you have read this blog before, then you know I have done plenty of tutorials. With this practice, comes plenty of repetition. And while in the middle of the tutorial, I understand what I am doing. But once it is completed, I am left with an overall understanding (which is not a bad thing…
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Moving Forward
In an attempt to move forward with my aspirations in life, I have set up an Indeed profile, and set my LinkedIn profile to “looking for positions.” I have come to the conclusion that one of things I have always had issues with is selling myself. By nature, I am one that does not want to…
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Flaskin it
Another tutorial down! This time from Teamtreehouse.com, the Flask basics. I found this one to be very useful. We learned (obviously) the basics of Flask-building websites and how to pass in variables, with and without query strings. How to display said variables in the page, and to apply logic within the page itself. HTML templates,…