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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Creating an application using Vite

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Up until recently, you could create a React application using Create-React-App. It was a lightweight way to create React applications quickl...

Watching Claude play Pokemon

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Currently Claude is playing Pokemon Red on Twitch. It was hard to tell what game it was playing, since the color palette of the game is very...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Making the most out of a meetup group in 2025

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Yesterday I went to my first Programming meetup for 2025. A goal of mine has been to go to more of these this year. I went to one in 2024 an...
Friday, February 7, 2025

Making a reusable footer in React

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freeCodeCamp's new front-end technologies content is still under construction, but they have released a few lessons for their React fund...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Social media in 2025

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Time for another blog post, but instead of focusing on what I've been learning, I'm writing a bit about the state of social media as...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Reviewing HTML concepts and establishing a habit

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 In my planner each week I write out three things automatically. Some sort of motivational theme or (soon) a bible verse as my "theme o...
Friday, January 3, 2025

Setting 2025 developer goals

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2024 is behind us and 2025 is here. New year. Clean slate. Last year was my first full year as a developer and it was full of learning, mome...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Common String methods in Java

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Almost all programming languages use Strings I'm sure. In Java, they are used a lot, and the language even made Strings it's own cla...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Installing Java on my laptop computer

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Last year I purchased a new Macbook which uses the M2 chip. I haven't come across any questions when installing apps, since most sites j...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Adding a modal to my portfolio page

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As a note, at the time of this blog post, my portfolio site is at this URL: https://aaronmccollum.github.io/personal-site/. I plan to update...