Hello World!
By Annie Pennell
August 23, 2015
…Hi! This is my first post of what I hope to be many. Where to start? I guess I should begin with a bit about myself. My background is in photography and, after three years of living in New Orleans and pursuing that, I returned to the Bay Area. At another crossroads with a hazy future in front of me and no map, I decided to make a new path and give this coding thing a shot. I took General Assembly San Francisco’s Web Development Immersive course, a twelve week full stack bootcamp, and I completed several web apps and projects there while learning HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and a whole lot more. I followed that up with a Developer in Residence position in GA’S next cohort, which has three weeks left. I am currently in the depths of a job search, eager to begin my life as a real developer!
A side passion of mine has always been crafting of all sorts. I fell in love with cross-stitching the first time a got a little kit with a basic hummingbird pattern. It’s so wonderfully tedious! Off and on for the last few years, I’ve completed projects then forgotten about it. In the last couple months, though, I discovered the world of ironic patterns on Etsy. I bought one and would come home from work and immediately sit down, fire up Netflix, and get right to stitching. I was hooked! After finishing that project, I bought five more patterns and am working through those right now. My friend requested a custom design, so I’m looking into making my own pattern for him.
Well, there you have it. The brief history of my life that has led me to this moment of starting a blog about cross-stitching and coding. Keep coming back for updates on my dev and stitch projects, musings on the strange SF world of tech and start-ups, code and crafting how-to’s, and stories about the terrors of job searching.
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