http://alexshook.com/ Recent content on Alex Shook Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 09 Jun 2023 23:50:24 -0400 http://alexshook.com/hello-again/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 23:50:24 -0400 http://alexshook.com/hello-again/ Tap tap is this thing on? http://alexshook.com/the-floor-is-lava/ Thu, 29 Jun 2017 22:13:35 -0400 http://alexshook.com/the-floor-is-lava/ Recently I’ve had a bunch of time for side projects so I thought I’d take a computer science class. I was looking for a fairly rigorous one and didn’t mind picking up some other languages. Harvard’s CS50 at edX has great reviews, so that’s the one I started. Our first assignment was to build something in Scratch, which I have never used before. It was a bit cumbersome because I’ve never programmed in a language like Scratch before. http://alexshook.com/some-thoughts-on-learning-clojure/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:39:26 -0400 http://alexshook.com/some-thoughts-on-learning-clojure/ This year, I was supposed to learn Clojure. I told myself that I was going to. I had been planning to pick up another language that is very different from Ruby and round out my skillset a bit. Over the past few years a bunch of people have told me that I would probably like Lisp. I’ve also been reading a book in Scheme, and Clojure’s pretty much close enough. A bit more useful for web stuff, too. http://alexshook.com/how-i-became-a-software-developer-part-1/ Tue, 23 May 2017 22:32:14 -0400 http://alexshook.com/how-i-became-a-software-developer-part-1/ I don’t know if it’s all the nostalgia for the 90s going around lately, but I’ve had a bunch of conversations with other developers that got me thinking about my early years in web development. Back in 1998 I made tons of random websites with hilarious CSS, absolutely insane JavaScript, and crazy background wallpapers. I made them mostly with Geocities and Angelfire, and they were part of so many web rings. http://alexshook.com/projects/ Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:20:25 -0400 http://alexshook.com/projects/ The Floor is Lava A game made with Scratch. You play as a dinosaur that must jump from rock to rock in a lava field. If you take too long to jump to the next rock it’s game over. Plebs Dept. · GitHub API Tiny Clojure API that only has one endpoint. It returns up to 30 trendy fashion products from one of five randomly selected current trends. The front-end is a separate static site using Masonry. http://alexshook.com/learn-ruby-the-hard-way-again/ Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:27:15 -0500 http://alexshook.com/learn-ruby-the-hard-way-again/ More than a year ago I tweeted (with a broken link to my old Octopress) about going through Learn Ruby the Hard Way again because I never finished it. I went up to #44 and stopped because I have no ideas for games, and #45 is the make a game exercise. I started again last fall and am up to #11. At least I’ve learned to keep the completed exercises in a GitHub repo so I don’t lose them in the depths of my computer. http://alexshook.com/hello-world/ Thu, 24 Nov 2016 22:20:25 -0400 http://alexshook.com/hello-world/ My first code blog was built on Octopress 2. It was a great starter blog, but I’ve been wanting to make some changes for a while. I got tired of waiting for Octopress 3, so I’m relaunching with Hugo, which looks like it has an active community and some great documentation. I had planned on migrating my posts, but decided on a fresh start instead. Hello, world. http://alexshook.com/about/ Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:20:25 -0400 http://alexshook.com/about/ Hello! I’m Alex. I write code.