While working on my last project I continued to learn about how to squash commits and why it is important to keep a clean, feature specific commit history. I learned how to do this through the interactive rebase tool. Rewriting history With the interactive rebase tool we can actually choose...

This week marks seven months as a resident apprentice at 8th Light. It’s quite remarkable to think back to the first week of my apprenticeship… Looking back My first week was plagued by uncertainty and a feeling of nervousness. Through this journey I feel like I have not only learned...

Although I feel like I have finished up the greenfield blog series, I thought it would be a great idea to share a little bit more information about where Snapshot is and where it is going. Adding the magic Recently, Eric finished up and deployed the backend of Snapshot so...

Rather than the usual post about apprenticeship hardships or lessons learned, let’s dig into something a bit different! This post is about planted aquariums or, more commonly known as, planted tanks. Simply put: a planted tank is an aquarium that contains real, live plants. Creative freedom Planted tanks are a...

This is part four of my greenfield blog series. If you’d like, feel free to read The Greenfield Series: Part 3, the last entry in the series of blog posts. I’d like to apologize in advance for the long delay between blog posts. As I write this I can tell...