Transitioning from Linux Systems Engineering into Full-Stack Web Development, I’ve been building small projects to strengthen my skills. Today I finished a simple Notes App using Nuxt.

It helped me practice project structure, pages, components, composables, reactivity, CRUD logic, and UI organization.

🔗 https://github.com/thelinuxlighthouse/nuxt-notes-app

#Nuxt #Nuxtjs #Vue #Vuejs #JavaScript #WebDevelopment #FullStackDevelopment #LearningInPublic #SoftwareDevelopment #linux #foss

Inner reflections on a cube.

#blender #blender3d #motiongraphics #loop #geonodes #LearningInPublic

I'll continue uploading these little loops as a personal catalog.

#motiongraphics #scifiart #blender #blender3d #Ducky3D #LearningInPublic

TIL: should I use single or double quotes in git commit messages?

both works fine, but go for the single quotes; double quotes might trigger "command substitution" on unix-like systems

for example:

```bash
$ echo "`ls`"

./docs/
./node_modules/
./package-lock.json
./package.json
./pages/
./README.md
```

#git #devlife #learninginpublic

Sunday 3/1/26

Day 59 of Year 3
Day 790 overall

💻 Learning Progress

Cohort: Synced main branches, cleaned up lock/root files in the monorepo, and opened a maintenance PR. Also organized Discord roles + a collaboration channel.

Mentorship: Refined the Pathways Tracker landing page — cleaner design, clearer flow, stronger first impression.

The Odin Project: Updated Etch-a-Sketch.

#Day59 #Year3OfCode #LearningInPublic

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Day 58 of Year 3
Day 789 overall

📖 2 dev articles read.

💻 Cohort: Reviewed monorepo setup, traced a backend lockfile merge, and proposed a clean, low-risk dependency maintenance update. Stability > shortcuts.

💻 Mentorship: Finalized V1 sign-in wireframe and moved to backend-controlled roles (Member / Base Camp Manager) for production-grade auth design.

#Day58 #Year3OfCode #Spring2026Cohort
#NHCarriganMentorship #JavaScript #LearningInPublic

Day 46 of Year 3
Day 777 overall since Jan 1, 2024.

Today:
• Tested backend routes and set up Postman for API validation
• Wrote clean Markdown documentation mapping client → controller flow
• Configured ESM TypeScript compilation in my NestJS backend
• Fixed module imports and wired AuthModule with UsersModule

#freeCodeCamp #100DaysOfCode
#Year3OfCode #Day777Overall
#Spring2026Cohort #TeamTealIris
#NHCarriganMentorship
#BackendDevelopment #NestJS
#LearningInPublic #Consistency

TIL: what's git commit amend? does it modify the previous commit?

it's like a time travel; rewrites the repo timeline; amend staged files to "previous" commit; previous commit is actually replaced and not modified; commits are immutable

#git #softwareengineer #learninginpublic #devlife

I made another ART!

I think I've got the hang of exciting features like straight lines, using colours, changing brushes, and adding text using a font (Shantell Sans). I can even make speech bubbles.

For this, my third ever comic, I was confronted with alarming new challenges that I was less prepared for. Like drawing objects and people!

#comic #Procreate #LearningInPublic

Just wrapped up Module 4 of the #dezoomcamp with @DataTalksClub!

Dived deep into Analytics Engineering with dbt:
* Built production-ready models for NYC taxi data
* Managed lineage for 43M+ FHV records
* Wrote data tests to catch schema drifts

The "T" in ELT is powerful! 🚀

#DataEngineering #dbt #learninginpublic

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Day 403 — small steps, big progress 🚀

• #Beyond365DaysOfCode Day 403
• #100DaysOfCode Day 403

📖 Daily Reading
✅ freeCodeCamp News — 1 article
✅ Daily.dev — 1 article

💻 Today’s Focus
• nhcarrigan-spring-2026-cohort: Submitted PR#73 for issue#30
• nhcarrigan-mentorship: Migrated backend code to ESM — switching from CommonJS (require/module.exports) to import/export

#JavaScript
#ESM #BackendDevelopment
#LearningInPublic #DevJourney
#Consistency

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Day 402

• #Beyond365DaysOfCode Day 402
• #100DaysOfCode Day 402

📖 Daily Reading
✅ freeCodeCamp News — 1 article
✅ Daily.dev — 1 article

💻 Today’s Focus
• nhcarrigan-spring-2026-cohort: Updated README.md — added team members section
• nhcarrigan-mentorship: Set up Trello Kanban board with template card — improving task management and workflow

#JavaScript #ProjectManagement
#Documentation #OpenSource
#LearningInPublic #DevJourney
#Consistency

Wrapped the Google Cybersecurity cert today. All 9 courses, 3 months (half the suggested timeline). While sick. Poor judgment but good timing.

Real talk: The cert is entry-level foundations. The actual learning starts now.

What I built during the program:
- Risk assessment docs (NIST CSF)
- Network hardening guides
- Python automation for log parsing
- Incident response workflows
- Full portfolio: https://github.com/kqthrs/cybersec-cert-work

Two 2-week gaps in the middle where I almost didn't restart. Momentum is fragile.

Next steps: TryHackMe, HTB, actually applying this stuff in labs. Then hunting for that first SOC analyst role.

Certificate was the permission slip. Now comes the real work.

Thanks to everyone here who answered my newbie questions along the way. Infosec community is genuinely helpful.

#cybersecurity #infosec #soc #learninginpublic #getcertified

Friday, February 6, 2026

Day 397 — stepping deeper into authentication 🔐

• #Beyond365DaysOfCode Day 397
• #100DaysOfCode Day 397

📖 Daily Reading
✅ freeCodeCamp News — 1 article
✅ Daily.dev — 1 article

💻 Today’s Focus
• nhcarrigan Spring 2026 Cohort:
– Created Google OAuth Client ID
– Generated Client Secret
– Continued setting up authentication flow

#JavaScript #WebDevelopment
#OAuth #BackendDevelopment
#LearningInPublic #DevJourney
#Consistency

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Day 396 — not every day is smooth, but every day is progress 💪

• #Beyond365DaysOfCode Day 396
• #100DaysOfCode Day 396

📖 Daily Reading
✅ freeCodeCamp News — 1 article
✅ Daily.dev — 1 article

💻 Today’s Focus
• nhcarrigan Spring 2026 Cohort (teal-iris):
– Opened a PR
– GitHub CI/CD checks failed ❌

And honestly… that’s part of the journey.

Tomorrow: investigate, fix, improve.

#JavaScript #ReactJS
#OpenSource #CICD
#LearningInPublic #DevJourney
#Consistency

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Day 395 of showing up and putting in the work 💻

• #Beyond365DaysOfCode Day 395
• #100DaysOfCode Day 395

📖 Daily Reading
✅ freeCodeCamp News — 1 article
✅ Daily.dev — 1 article

💻 Today’s Focus
• nhcarrigan Spring 2026 Cohort (teal-iris):
– Fixed missing closing backticks in the README.md (file structure section)
– Started the Team Members section in README.md

#JavaScript #OpenSource
#Documentation #LearningInPublic
#DevJourney #Consistency

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Day 394 of coding consistency 💻🔥

• #Beyond365DaysOfCode Day 394
• #100DaysOfCode Day 394

📖 Daily Reading
✅ freeCodeCamp News — 1 article
✅ Daily.dev — 1 article

💻 Today’s Focus
• freeCodeCamp — React fundamentals & components
• nhcarrigan Spring 2026 Cohort (teal-iris):
– Forked & cloned the repo
– Installed pnpm and project dependencies
– Installed Docker Desktop

#JavaScript #React #WebDevelopment
#OpenSource #LearningInPublic
#DevJourney #Consistency

Reading more than posting has helped me understand this space better.

#LearningInPublic

#Community

#Thinking

Interesting how communities form around rituals, not just shared beliefs.

#LearningInPublic

Matches one of the ways I like to learn - not just reading docs, but actually debugging and fixing things myself. Different people learn differently. For me, poking at broken code from multiple angles makes concepts stick. (And reading the docs, and writing or blogging about things, etc etc!)

Nothing fancy - just an experiment in interactive learning.

https://github.com/strickvl/zenlings for the repo. YMMV!

#MLOps #ZenML #LearningInPublic