grace d. is

Welcome to the world of grace.

It’s kinda cramped in here, lol.

This tumblr is temporary while I write and document my process for building my actual, legitimate blog at graced.is (don’t go there yet - there’s nothing there).

So first things first: why tf am I not just using Wordpress or Ghost to run my blog? Well... I am kind of a glutton for punishment, lol. Actually, I love building things and I am currently a student at Lambda School in order to pursue my pretty much life-long dream of becoming a web developer. I have always said I’d build my own blog and during my various periods of unemployment *cough* downtime, I have typically pursued such activities but I never get around to finishing them.

Well, not today, Satan.

Today (and the last few weeks actually), I start documenting my journey to building my blog, completing it, and publishing it via github and my professional domain. I have a lot of ideas, and I have a lot of planning to do.

so, let’s build a blog!

Second on the agenda: a breakdown of what I hope to accomplish:

Teach myself how to write code with a test-driven mentality... I have to confess, I don’t really know how to test. However! With that said, I didn’t know how to code until I Googled it for myself™.

Plan my project on paper which I’m SOMEWHAT good at doing... then I get all squirrelly and want to write it then the next thing I know I’m 45 files deep in Javascript and the current thing I’m working on breaks the last thing I just finished.

Don’t reinvent the wheel! I want to force myself to utilize NPM scripts out there (if you don’t know what that is, which you probably don’t, I’m proud of you for making it this far down a tech blog post) like creating website.com/urls/like-this-for-my-links/ (these are called slugs, FYI) and integrating a fancy text editor so I don’t make myself write one that sux.

Hopefully some poor soul out there who stumbles upon my blog will find these posts funny and somewhat educational. If I can stop someone from making my own mistakes, then so much the better.

Portfolio-wise, I hope to release my blog in several forms of git repositories (again, congrats on not understanding a dang thing on this blog if you’re still reading) so I can show off my skillz and impress people with my knowledge. And land a job. (Once I graduate ofc.)

And finally, build up a small public media presence in the form of-- you guessed it-- social media! Now that I’m married with a new last name, I really want to strike out on my own and show the world my credentials, show off what I can do, and hopefully make some friends along the way.

(Yeah, okay, I realize that we have not taken one step to writing a blog so far... I’mma get to it innaminnit.)

I will be honest and admit that I am writing these posts and making sure they are as accurate as possible since I do hope to teach these concepts one day and I don’t want this blog to haunt me with the inevitable errors I will make and publish. I’m currently sitting in my swanky/comfy home office while hubby gets ready for bed because Lambda School classes (for me anyway) are 7pm-10pm ET. This blog, of course, is a mini passion project for me as I document-document-document and hopefully I don’t fall off the wagon this time. The last time I wrote a technical blog that I didn’t delete was in 2013. Eek. 

Anyway, I will also most likely post cute cat pictures of my three fat fluffs from time to time, and once I am (no longer unemployed) busy during the day I will pop in here and write some micro-blogs.