{"id":1,"date":"2024-10-01T00:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T00:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-10-01T00:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T00:22:32","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/2024\/10\/01\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The first step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step &#8211; Lao Tzu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello, Everyone! My name is Kenneth Huddleston, a part time Computer Science student and a full time Site Reliability Engineer working in the software industry. I am beginning my first post of my capstone project with a Lao Tzu quote, because I believe I am very blessed to be at the start of what is probably the hardest, but most rewarding year in my career so far.<\/p>\n<p>I have been working in software as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a little over 2 years now. In light of me recent work, my company has slotted my for a leadership training curriculum which I will be completing in tandem with my work in this capstone. Between work, my leadership training, and this course &#8211; I have found myself without lacking inspiration and challenge. As I have been completing the prep work for the year ahead, I have come to personally identify with Lao Tzu&#8217;s quote &#8216;A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step&#8217;. Whenever I am daunted by the amount of work in front of me, I try to remember.. it&#8217;s just one step at a time!<\/p>\n<p>For my capstone sequence, I am currently recruiting members for a project that will stretch my technical skills beyond what I have experience in my career so far. My project is a full-stack application meant to track a users Investment holdings; providing the user performance metrics, forecasting reports, news, etc. One example of an application like this currently available on the public web is Stock Events: <a href=\"https:\/\/stockevents.app\/en\">https:\/\/stockevents.app\/en<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>I am recruiting for my team on EdStem. If you are interested, please check it out! The link to my recruitment post is here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edstem.org\/us\/courses\/67384\/discussion\/5369144?answer=12450700\">https:\/\/edstem.org\/us\/courses\/67384\/discussion\/5369144?answer=12450700<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to an amazing year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step &#8211; Lao Tzu Hello, Everyone! My name is Kenneth Huddleston, a part time Computer Science student and a full time Site Reliability Engineer working in the software industry. I am beginning my first post of my capstone project with a Lao Tzu quote, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-check-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/huddlesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}