Blog Posts

Magic Mirror Tutorial

A short walk-through for creating a magic mirror project

Posted by Solomon Astley on 03/02/2017

Print All Combinations of Coins That Sum to an Amount - Java Solution

I wrote an algorithm to print all possible combinations of coins that sum to a given total amount.

Posted by Solomon Astley on 10/20/2016

My Time at MAYA Design (Part 2)

I describe my second big project at MAYA Design, a web dashboard for a large offshore drilling company.

Posted by Solomon Astley on 08/23/2016

Kirby CMS Git Widget

I walk through how to make a custom widget for the Kirby CMS which automatically pushes file changes in the panel to a Git repository and facilitates the resolution of merge conflicts.

Posted by Solomon Astley on 08/24/2016

My Time at MAYA Design (Part 1)

I describe in detail the first of two projects I worked on as a software engineering intern at MAYA Design during the summer of 2016.

Posted by Solomon Astley on 08/22/2016

Building a Blog With Kirby CMS

In this guide I explain how to create a personal blog from scratch using Kirby CMS and PHP.

Posted by Solomon Astley on 06/03/2016

Making a Web Scraper with Beautiful Soup for US State SVGs

I wrote a Python script that uses Beautiful Soup to grab an interesting collection of SVGs from the LGBTQ community and then edits them so they look neat.

Posted by Solomon Astley on 06/07/2016