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Brandon Dusch

Hello World! My name is Brandon. I'm an aspiring web developer currently based in Pittsburgh, PA (but planning on relocating to Portland, ME later this year). I can't wait to share my coding journey!

Prelude to Upcoming Rails Project Series

North Chatham, Massachusetts, USA Hi Everyone! It's definitely been a while since I last posted here to the Hashnode community on My Dev Diary. Long story short: I recently moved from Pittsburgh, PA to North Chatham, MA on Cape Cod! I know, I know. ...

Sinatra Fitness App (UPDATE)

This is a supplement to a previous post about Fitness Tracker Sinatra app I built. What's the Update? Upon submission of my project, I decided to do some styling to make the app a little easier on the eyes. However, I discovered a litany of underlyin...

How I Built a Fitness Tracker App w/ Sinatra

Building a Sinatra application was, by far, one of the most challenging projects I've undergone so far. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: this was a difficult project. Or, at least, I made it unnecessarily hard in the beginning. But after much struggle and...

Reflections on the First #100DaysOfCode

FULL DISCLOSURE: While I coded everyday for the first 100 days of 2020, I did notdocument each day on Twitter. As you can attest, the last few months have been reallycrazy. I will try to do so during the next 100 days. Today is April 18th, 2020, whic...

A Review of My First Project Review

Recently, I underwent my first project review at Flatiron School and I wanted to writeabout what I thought, what I learned and what I would have done differently. I gottogether with one of the bootcamp's cohort leads (not mine) on, you guessed it, Z...

I Built an OO CLI App via New York Times API to Help Local Book Stores! Here's How!

For my first Flatiron School project, I built a Ruby CLI application that utilizes basic programming concepts, object-oriented programming and works with third-party data (through means like web scraping or APIs). My project uses the NYT Books API ...