I want to start by saying this project was never meant to happen. In all honesty, I had developed an intense bias over my career in software against hackathons in general. In my eyes, they were not worth the extra effort on top of my daily developer responsibilities. Additionally, there was always an underlying feeling that no matter how useful my idea was, how hard I worked, or how well I presented my solution, I would never receive full credit for my efforts.  Parts of this

On a cloudy October Tuesday, after weeks of conference travel and networking I was exhausted. I had met and shook hands with perhaps hundreds of people by that point, and still had at least another 4 events ahead of me, with not much down time in between. However, it wasn’t the thought of another conference, or another happy hour that made me so tired. It was the morning news. In an era where political circus is the order of the day, and the real life impact on the average pe

Atlanta Food Finder 2025 Now Live  At midnight, November 1, 2025, millions of people lost their access to SNAP benefits due to the ongoing government shutdown. These are our friends, neighbors, family, and children among them. We have the ability to ensure that as many as possible don’t go hungry until this situation is resolved. In an effort to do my part, I have created an open source live web application listing food resources by county and zip code for Atlanta’s families.

“ If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others. ” - African Proverb At last, I am back home in Atlanta after a 4 week 8+ conference blitz through the southeast United States. From all over Georgia, to Raleigh, NC, to Jackson, MS, and back, I have presented, prototyped, volunteered and networked with thousands of technologists across conferences, happy hours, and more.    Before I nerd out about who I met, what I learned, and built, I wanted to expre

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Me as an intern that fateful summer of 2017 Representing as a business owner at a Google Cloud Summit Summer 2024 The rise of artificial intelligence has many people understandably apprehensive about AI replacing their jobs/industries. In some cases, we are already seeing this with massive tech company layoffs, more jobs being automated, and workers encouraged to use AI more in their work. Regardless of your industry there will be an impact made by AI, but not necessarily neg

Low code and no code platforms are created based on model-driven design, visual programming, and automatic code generation. Here is a closer look at these principles in action. Model-driven design uses platform-independent models instead of structured traditional programming to serve as an abstraction layer to simplify programming. Focused on adding forms, views, and charts to an app using an app designer tool like Microsoft power apps. It emphasizes construction of a softw

" There is no such thing as a neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom. " - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Mentoring students at the SMASH High School Hackathon on 10/19/24 I Participating in my first hackathon hosted by Goodie Nation in Spring 2015. It has taken me several weeks to clarify my thoughts about this “brave new world” we are all soon to inhabit in the coming months. While the election results wer

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