Firebase: What is it? Is it easy to use?

I am writing this week about Google’s Firebase. Firebase is a megalithic cloud service for mobile apps that I have been researching for our Capstone Project. Google Firebase provides a slew of services including data-hosting, user authentication, A/B feature testing and other remote configurations, cloud functions to run logic server-side, messaging infrastructure, and a ton more. I… Continue reading Firebase: What is it? Is it easy to use?

hide the Canvas® nav menu without clicking

This blog post is about a Chrome extension I made which toggles the “Hide Navigation Menu” button in the Canvas® LMS when selected pages load. Here’s a link to my github repository containing the code. Read on to learn what motivated me to make this extension, and how to use it on your computer! !!!… Continue reading hide the Canvas® nav menu without clicking

My experience with VS Code

I resisted trying VS Code for a few years of my software engineering education because I held a general disdain for Microsoft products after experiencing near constant technical difficulties with my PC until making the change to Unix/Linux and macOS systems.