While putting together a project for Phase 3 of Flatiron’s Software Engineering program, my project partner and I came across a super cool oscillator that takes in audio input and displays a representation of those sound waves to the screen. (You can check out said super cool oscillator here .) Knowing we wanted to implement something similar for our project, we spent one evening dissecting the code line-by-line and came across an element neither of us had come across before — <canvas>. After a bit of research, I have come to a slightly better understanding of what canvas is and…

In my brief time as an adult on earth, I’ve had some weird job interviews. One time when I was living in Rome, Italy and interviewing for an internship in the Camera dei Deputati (their equivalent to the United States House of Representatives), my interviewer asked me what my zodiac sign was and was a bit unnerved when I told her I was a Leo (“Really? You are a Leo? Leos are pushy. You do not seem pushy.”) Another time, when I applied for my first law enforcement job, my interviewer looked me up and down and said “You know…

One day, back in my “previous life” as a law enforcement officer, I was sitting in the local jail with a co-worker waiting for our next block of morning court hearings to start. The coronavirus pandemic and the need for social distancing meant most court proceedings now occurred virtually, and as such deputies were no longer transporting incarcerated individuals back and forth from the jail to the courthouse for their trials. Those who were in custody now had their day in court through a Zoom-style meeting, sitting in a tiny office in the jail with two or three deputies, awkwardly…