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Tetris game and Thoughts on AI
2025-11-30 00:54:56
Greetings from the year 2025. It's been awhile but some updates from me are that I have become certified as an AWS Certified Developer Associate and learned a lot. Stephane Maarek's Udemy course was very helpful and I learned more about interesting services and topics such as encryption concepts like envelope encryption. I also have been working on a tetris game using pygame which has been cool to learn as well with help from the great C++ Youtuber OneLoneCoder/Javidx9. I want to work on more side projects for fun, small games in my free time such as visualizing the A* Search Pathfinding algorithm and a ray tracer based off of Doom. For my work I want to get better with python and data engineering such as getting the Databricks Data Engineer certificate and using more of PySpark and Postgres as well as business analytics tools like Tableau and Power BI. It's also no secret that AI is taking the world by storm and I believe that I, as well as others have gone through a wave of some emotions regarding the future of the tech field. I believe that LLMs can certainly be helpful when working on code, but we can't rely fully on them, else we risk not understanding what it is doing. That's why for work I use it for learning and repetetive things such as generating documentation, helping increase delivery velocity by using agents to lookup documentation for libraries more quickly and so on. I've also had some experience working with RAG and MCP servers, but on a side project I try to refrain too much from using AI so I can problem solve and learn things myself. After all, if you don't use a muscle you risk it atrophying and losing it right? I think a lot of interesting things can be done with AI, which is both cool and scary, so we will need people to understand the code that AI is generating. Anyways, here's the game:
https://github.com/JLance7/tetris
Another post
2025-02-13 21:23:18
Hello, adding another post to document my progress as a developer. I got the AWS Certified Architect Associate certification a little while ago and learned a lot about AWS. I also just completed the Golang course for beginners by Maximilliam Shwarzmuller and thought it was great. I am starting to really like golang as a language. I am also working through a postgres course and learning much as well.
2nd post, update
2024-06-17 22:27:48
I finished the sorting algo visualizer after working on it off an on given life's responsibilities and work. It was fun. I used Tech With Tim's video on it to reference some of the ways he did things which is a great resource and learned more about python generators which was useful. I want to also work on visualizing the a* search pathfinder algorithm.
https://github.com/JLance7/sorting-algo-visualizer
My first post!
2024-05-09 03:47:17
This is my first blog post. I want to learn more about php so I can easily add server side capabilities to my web dev endeavors. Currently I am working on a learning more about pygame which I am having fun doing and I'm making a sorting algorithm visualizer. I recently made a snake game. I want to eventually make a tetris clone and a platformer. Other than that, I also want to learn more about AWS and plan to study for the solutions architect cert, which will help me with my work.