Blog

Discover how rubber duck debugging can transform your coding experience. Learn why explaining your code to a simple rubber duck is one of the most effective troubleshooting techniques that experienced developers swear by. This practical guide shows how verbalizing your code helps identify bugs faster than traditional debugging methods.

Learn how to build a word count command line utility in Rust from scratch. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create a functional wc tool that counts lines, words, and bytes in files. Perfect for Rust beginners and those interested in command line tools, this tutorial covers argument parsing with clap, file handling, and test-driven development to create reliable utilities for text processing.

A step-by-step guide to building modern web applications with FastAPI and React in 2025, featuring Vite for faster development and UV for improved Python package management.

Reposting a paper I did for my UMGC AI Ethics class. It was an interesting exploration into inherent biases in AI models. I reviewed both ChatGPT and Gemini and wrote about the results.

I noticed while checking my copyright date that I have been blogging for 15 years now. I thought it would be an interesting time to write a bit of a retrospective.

A brief review of the music I found and fell in love with across all of 2024.

I recently took some time to add ESLint and Prettier to my Astro blog. Here an easy todo to follow and some of my lessons learned.

I recently finished Buildspace Nights & Weekends. This is my review.

In this blog post, we talk about what JSON-LD is and how I implemented it on my Astro.build blog. It was quick and easy; definitely worth a look!

In this blog post, we walk through building an example app with Rust, Axum and HTMX. This is really cool and a simple way to build web apps. No Javascript framework needed.