August 7, 2025

Factory Pattern for Testing Roles

I wanted to dig into the Factory pattern a bit. I was fighting the thought that conceptually, it’s just a class with methods, but that’s not entirely right. I think what I’m settling into is thinking of it as an object that has purpose. It’s not modeling something. It’s creating. It’s using a model, and[…]

July 30, 2025

Dev Notes

Automating the Backend Testing and Startup for Project Naja

I’m working on a project called Naja. It’s a full-stack app using a PostgreSQL database. Each time I work on it, I cd to the frontend directory, npm run dev, then cd into the api directory, run the tests and start the server. I want to start automating this…or at least streamline it. I asked[…]

June 23, 2025

Containerizing ClearPath: How I Dockerized a Time-Blindness Task Planner for Production & GitOps

This morning, I tackled turning our college project — ClearPath Task Planner — into a containerized web app. It’s a full-stack app built to help users struggling with time blindness to stay on track. With a React frontend, Express backend, and MongoDB database, it was a solid app. I want to let potential employers see[…]

May 22, 2025

k8s Ingress Routes with Traefik

sidenote: the image is from the traefik website. Previously, I have been accessing the internal services on the cluster by pointing the browser to a port on a specific ip address. It works, and there’s nothing wrong with it as long as the ip address doesn’t change…and you remember it. However if I want to[…]

May 7, 2025

Deploying PostgreSQL and pgAdmin4 to the Kubernetes Cluster

This semester featured MongoDB in a couple of classes. I’m guessing professors are gravitating to it because it’s relatively easy to get up and running with a cloud account on Atlas. I really enjoyed working with it, and I will probably toy with a local deployment. However, I wanted to deploy a PostgreSQL database to[…]

Dev Notes

Factory Pattern for Testing Roles

Automating the Backend Testing and Startup for Project Naja

Containerizing ClearPath: How I Dockerized a Time-Blindness Task Planner for Production & GitOps

k8s Ingress Routes with Traefik

Deploying PostgreSQL and pgAdmin4 to the Kubernetes Cluster

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