{House_Code: "Technology Writing"}

{House_Code: "Technology Writing"}

Hey there, I'm Wes! 👋 I'm a creative technologist based in Berlin who loves building compelling stories through code.

12 posts

Apr 21, 202211 min read
Building a Search Feature in Ruby on Rails
Recently, I was tasked with building a search feature for a database of videos. It was something I'd never previously done before and was pretty eager to learn in the process. But just like most problems in coding, I quickly realized there are a thou...
Apr 13, 20223 min read
Building a Blind Dating App from Scratch
Building a Blind Dating App from Scratch Dating is a chore that can feel a lot like work. You invest a ton of effort in finding a potential match, chatting with them online, and meeting them in person only for things to quickly fall apart. Maybe they...
Apr 10, 20224 min read
Building a Vinyl Image Recognition and Recommendation Application using Python
If you’re a music lover, you probably at some point in life have listened to vinyl on a record player. Or maybe you’re old fashioned like me or just a hipster with your own tiny collection. As someone who’s a little fed up with all the curated playli...
Apr 10, 20224 min read
Why I Made the Journey to AWS Certification
In 2021, I received a top trending credential in IT the sector. What's the journey like to get there? Is it worth it? Would I do it again? What is AWS? AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud services platform. It's also a subsidiary of Amazon and boast...
Apr 9, 20225 min read
JS Brain Dump { part 2 } : 'High Order Functions and Promises'
This article is part of a series answering some of the most fundamental (and sometimes confusing) JavaScript concepts Higher Order Functions Higher order functions is a scary way to describe a function that takes another function as an argument. Alth...
Apr 9, 20226 min read
JS Brain Dump { part 1 } : 'Equality, Primitive/Object Types, and (A)synchronous JavaScript'
This article is part of a series answering some of the most important (and sometimes confusing) JavaScript questions 1) Equality In Javascript, you can compare items with: The double equals operator (==, aka the equality or abstract comparison opera...
Apr 8, 20224 min read
Why I'm Writing (About Technology)
My biggest passion in life - the thing that gets me out of bed and makes my heart beat faster and faster the more I do it and the better I get - is not technology but writing. Which may be risky statement to make within the technology community since...
Apr 7, 20223 min read
ReactWithMe: A Quick Introduction to the useState Hook
ReactWithMe is a series for aspiring and seasoned React developers who want to strengthen their foundational knowledge of the most popular frontend library. In this blog post, we will explore useState as well as an introduction to Hooks in React. Hoo...
Apr 7, 20227 min read
Unit Testing with Jest: Why and How You Should be Testing (part 1)
Testing is a crucial part of programming. In this introductory crash course to Jest, we'll see how and why you should always be testing your code