Book Review 6 March 2020 #Vigilantes: The Auctorati Book Review ARROW with a dash of OCEANS. Libra is trying to do his best to save his city, but he's going to need a little help to take down Talon, who's after an artifact that will tip the balance in his favor forever. Here's my review of The Auctorati!
Featured Writing 3 March 2020 #WriterTech: How I Write My Blog Posts There's so many tools out there for writing, and I have my preferences. I breakdown what software I use to get the job done.
Featured Tutorial 24 February 2020 #MakeTheChangePt2: Kotlin Properties Kotlin is a great language to switch to if you already know Java. There's a small learning curve, sure, but that's true for switching to any language. One thing to get used to is the difference in the way Kotlin declares properties.
Book Review 22 February 2020 #XOXO: One Of Us Is Lying Book Review A brain, an athlete, a princess, a criminal, and a basketcase walk into detention... except one of them doesn't leave. "One of Us Is Lying" is like Breakfast Club mixed with a Whodunit Murder Mystery and Gossip Girl. Here's my review.
Featured Tutorial 17 February 2020 #MakeTheChange: From Java to Kotlin Switching from one programming language to another can feel intimidating and daunting. I'm here to help ease some of the pain. Now that I've been introduced to Kotlin, I never wanna go back to Java.
Featured Tutorial 10 February 2020 #MakeItBetter: My Everyday Kotlin Extension Functions Kotlin has declarations called Extension Functions which allow you to add new methods (and even properties) to another class without actually modifying that class. I've come up with a few that have been invaluable to me, and I use them every day.
Featured Tutorial 3 February 2020 #MVP: Explaining Model-View-Presenter Breaking down what MVP (Model-View-Presenter) is and what it can do for your applications.
Book Review 13 January 2020 #FightingEvilByMoonlight: My Spoiler-Free Review of A Blade So Black Dreamwalker Alice Kingston uses her #BlackGirlMagic to fight off Nightmares in Wonderland while preparing her next cosplay. Just imagine Alice in Wonderland fusing with Buffy, if Buffy was a Sailor Scout, and strip anything Disney from it. Imagine all that, then read this!
Tutorial 6 January 2020 #SoSecure: Setting Up SSL Encryption Using AWS Apparently, AWS has a service for everything.
Book Review 30 December 2019 The Fifteen Books I Read In 2019 I actually hit 15 books this year. Super excited with the journey and all the characters I've come across. From giant dragons threatening the Multiverse, to powers of metallic-origins, to _Inception_-like worlds, to a drag queen sorceress, to paper-based magic, and so much more.
Book Review 4 January 2019 My 2018 Reads, Part 5 of 5: The Dreadful Riot, and other short stories I read a buuuuuunch of short stories this year, and even threw in a book at the last minute just for funsies: Midnight Riot, by Ben Aaronovitch; The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle; Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland; and many more!
Book Review 28 December 2018 My 2018 Reads, Part 4: Wild, Lost, and Broken. One surprises, one disappoints, and another is as good as expected. Can you guess which? Labryinth Lost, by Zoraida Cordova; Wild Seed, by Octavia Butler; and The Obleisk Gate, by N. K. Jemisin
Book Review 21 December 2018 My 2018 Reads, Part 3: The Best and the Worst Neither of these stories ended up like I thought they would: The Root, by Na'amen Tilahun; and The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
Book Review 15 December 2018 My 2018 Reads, Part 2: The Kindred Minds of Blood and Bone Three more books read: Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi; Kindred, by Octavia Butler; and The Darkest Minds, Alexandra Bracken
Book Review 5 December 2018 My 2018 Reads, Part 1: The Start of Something New My thoughts on the first two books I read this year: Superhuman, by Michael Carrol; and Pangaea, by Jarrod King.
