Striving for elegance


A journey in learning to code

Why Software Engineering

Why did I pivot from a 10 year career in fashion retail to software development?


Transforming Variable Names in a Rails API

When working on projects for Flatiron School that have a Rails API backend and a JavaScript front end, I came across the challenge of handling variable names. It is convention in Ruby to name variables with snake case (like_this) and it is convention in Javascript to name variable in snake case (likeThis). When sending data back and forth, these differences need to be accounted for.


Redirect with React Router

Two ways to handle redirecting on a user event such as create, update and delete with React Router.


Object-Oriented JavaScript: using an adapter class

This post orignally appeared on my Medium Blog on Sept 21, 2020.


Successfully Planning Projects

This post orignally apperaed on my Medium blog on Aug 20, 2020