Wick BushongReact Components and Global StateThere’s a ton of good React documentation out there. If you have a question about the framework, chances are somebody else has had that…3 min read·Dec 9, 2020----
Wick BushongHow to turbocharge your Rails APIBuilding an API with Rails is super easy. Active Model makes managing your domain model relationships and querying your database…4 min read·Dec 1, 2020----
Wick BushongAre you an optimist or a pessimist?The technology we (humans) use has conditioned us to be impatient. We (again, humans) have become so easily frustrated by…3 min read·Oct 31, 2020----
Wick BushongLearning Through Doing — Rails, OmniAuth, BootstrapThis week I built an app that allows tutors to post their availability for tutoring sessions, and lets students book sessions according to…3 min read·Oct 4, 2020----
Wick BushongTracking Energy Use Takes EnergyThis week I built an app using an MVC framework. I used Active Record to handle the database, Sinatra to handle HTTP requests and…4 min read·Aug 30, 2020----
Wick BushongThe Command LineAhhh the command line… a powerful interface that served as the forerunner for the more intuitive and user friendly interfaces that were…4 min read·Jul 31, 2020----
Wick Bushongso you want to be a software engineer… wait, why?Problem solving. It’s pretty simple. If something is not right, you develop a solution that makes it right. That’s what drew me to…2 min read·Jul 6, 2020----