Like everyone else, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned my summer plans upside down. As a graduate student in Information Technology (IT), I wanted an internship with hands-on experience. Unfortunately, most...
June 7, 2020
June 7, 2020
Thoughts on Setting Up a Plex Media Server
If you had asked me in January, what I would be doing this summer setting up a server would not have been an answer. But that is precisely what I...
May 26, 2020
You Don’t Have Any Excuse Not To Homebrew
By Sara Bondioli I hear it time and time again: I would try to homebrew, BUT … What follows is one (or multiple) reasons someone says they definitely cannot try...
December 30, 2018
Learning Python on SoloLearn and Codeacademy
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between learning a programming language like Python using SoloLearn versus Codecademy? Well wonder no more. I spent the summer using both platforms...
June 30, 2018
To Masters or Not To Masters?
“Should I or shouldn’t I go back to school?” If you are a career changer with a degree that is the game changing question. Asking for advice doesn’t help. Everyone...
December 29, 2017
Year One in Review
When I started The District Nerd(TDN) over a year ago, the mission was to create a place where the voice of building apps and homebrewing was a black woman. Those...
December 29, 2017
LivestockCity App: Connecting Android and MS server
Earlier this fall, I took a remote internship working on the first Android app for an early stage start-up, LivestockCity. The mobile team consists of two Android and iOS engineers....
December 4, 2017
Why you should love Kotlin
For a long time, I thought of Kotlin as the new kid at school that everyone wanted to be friends with – except me. Until an unrelated set of tweets...
November 25, 2017
Tic-Tac-Toe Android App 0
After a two-week crash course in Java we were assigned Tic-Tac-Toe (TTT) as our first Android application. At that point in the bootcamp, my diet consisted of anxiety, dread, and...
November 15, 2017
Under $25 gift ideas
Here are 39 under $25 gift ideas for the developer, wine and beer lover in your life. For the wine lover For the beer lover For the developer...