Building a REST API in Django is so super easy. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the steps to get your first API up and running. (This post is part of a series where I teach how to deploy a React front end on a Django back end. However, nothing…

What the newbies taught me — A new email in my inbox — subject line “Accepted an offer!” One of the developers I coach got a job! I’m so proud of him and happy that he’ll now have a remote position with a good salary that supports his family. Of course, mentorship doesn’t end with a…

Work through this roadmap & I promise you’ll find a job… — You don’t know what you don’t know. Let me explain what I mean by that… There are 4 types of knowledge: Known knowns — things that you know, and you know that you know them (e.g. how to add, or how to speak English) Unknown knowns — things that you…

The details may surprise you. — Building a large network of computers is a massive undertaking. How did the early pioneers of the Internet solve it? At the end of the day, the Internet is just a set of rules for helping computers talk to one another across a large network. This article is written for…

Engineering is much more than coding… — Some coders do the bare minimum: write code that meets the requirements. However, great software engineers know their job involves much more than writing code. If you want to be a great engineer (and get ahead in your career), it pays to know all the “hidden” work that goes into…