Two and half weeks after graduating from Makers Academy I was offered a full time job as a software engineer at Pivotal Labs. As I prepare for my first day at work tomorrow, I took some time to think back … Continue reading
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Three months ago I couldn’t imagine building websites…
Twitter, Instagram, and Yelp all have hundreds of millions of users. Chitter, Captioner, and Dish don’t have any users at all. But I sometimes find them more interesting to use than the former three. I wouldn’t tell you to check … Continue reading
Meet Team Pinch
In my post about my Makers Academy graduation, I mentioned how my team had produced a short silent film and a screencast for our presentation. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Team Pinch:
MA Graduate
I remember coming to the end of my first week at Makers Academy and thinking that I still had such a long way to go. Since then, each week has passed by more quickly than the previous one, as I’ve … Continue reading
Penultimate
This last week was very different to all of the previous ones. The structured teaching phase is over at Makers Academy. Now we are in the final project phase. As I write this post, I can’t believe that there are … Continue reading
Goodbye, August
I wrote hardly any code yesterday at Makers Academy, though I was distracted for good reason: the August cohort were graduating! From 9am in the morning, there was a mixture of excitement and anxiety in the air, as the graduands put … Continue reading