Category: thoughts
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On Grieving
UPDATE Aug 29, 2024: Miller is doing just fine after a lot of at-home TLC. These words encapsulate a feeling in time that I needed to capture. … I’m writing this sitting next to Miller, my 4-year-old rescue pup, who is extremely sick. How we reached this point is a question I’ll never have an…
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On Nerd-dom, Hype, and Disappointment
What does it mean to be a nerd? In the Archetype of Nerd, there are many subclasses. There are Tech Nerds, who thrive on littering their home with the latest gadget, touting to whoever wants to hear it why this hunk of plastic and metal is better than the last one, and specifically why its…
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4: “Oppenheimer”
Spoiler Alert. You’ve been warned. And now things are already being transformedfrom words to deeds—the earth is shuddering,the roaring thunder from beneath the seais rumbling past me, while bolts of lightningflash their twisting fire, whirlwinds toss the dust,and blasting winds rush out to launch a warof howling storms, one against another.The sky is now confounded…
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3: Hope
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. – Joseph Campbell What we talk about when we talk about hope changes from person to person, thought to thought, reality to reality. The unique part of the American mythos is that we are often oblivious to what Pandora supposedly left trapped inside her jar. We, sometimes…
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2: Pandora
small disclaimer: I am writing this specifically from the gaze of a white cis-male observer of both society and media. I use language that presumptive of this gender identity because it is my story, to tell you — whoever you are. If there were mortal women in Greek mythology before Pandora, their stories were not…
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1: Prometheus
Zeus and humanity had a weird relationship that I still don’t really get, but we talked about it a lot in late-20th / early-21st century American Public Schooling, so forgive me if I’m light on details but heavy on sarcasm. Mythology belongs to the teller, so take a seat. As it goes, a Titan by…
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Mythos & Modernity
The beginning of a long winded and contrived explanation about why we deserve to be where we are today.
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What I learned while building a React + Redux + Rails App (or, A Study of Balance)
Welcome to the hub for Phrank! — my Phish cataloging project built for Flatiron’s Learn.co web development course. I began this project a long time ago. It took me the better part of a year to get to where I am. I am proud of what I have built, but know I can improve it…
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Technically Correct
I learned a lot from my first time working with Redux and React on top of Rails. Hopefully, something here can help another beginner down the line. Understanding State (and thus, Redux) I didn’t really understand Redux at all when I started the final project. Everyone often refers to “Rails Magic” and how complex things…
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Not everything is technical, even when it is.
There are lessons you learn in developing that are outside code. Sure, without this project, I would be a far inferior developer than I am now (and I do consider myself one, at this point). My technical skills in digesting programmatic needs and turning them consistently into solutions without resorting to how-to guides or API…
