about lea

photo by Belen Prieto

Aloha,

I am a Brooklyn-based musician, weaver, and herbalist originally from Maui, Hawaii.

Infinite Loom is a compilation of excerpts from my experience of learning to weave with computer code.

When the ripples of Covid-19 turned my life upside down in March of 2020, I came across a wonderful opportunity that opened my eyes to the possibility of using the time in quarantine to better learn to communicate and interact with computers and information.

I was accepted into a program created by Stanford University called Code in Place that offered a full quarter of curriculum from their Computer Science pathway, just for the sake of sharing and empowerment during quarantine.

Through learning the fundamentals of the Python programming language over the course of 6 weeks, I became even more curious and discovered another incredible opportunity by TechHire Open Code by LaGuardia Community College.

TechHire is a federally funded educational accelerator program started in the last year of the Obama administration to help under-represented folx break into the tech industry. As part of this program, I was offered a full scholarship to attend General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive plus a month of bootcamp-prep in programming fundamentals with LaGuardia’s own professors.

Upon graduating from General Assembly’s programming in the fall of 2020, I began to work more seriously as a freelance Web Developer, building sites for entrepreneurs in social justice, wellness and environmental activism.

In January of 2021, I became a Shopify Development Intern at Acadaca, a full service e-commerce agency with team members around the country.

This blog is mostly intended to help me keep tabs and have references to return to when I hit road blocks along the way. I covered a lot of what I was learning in the very beginning of this journey, skipped over my time at GA (we were clocking 12-14 hour days with class and homework), and picked up again as I started to explore Shopify’s powerful platform.

Mahalo nui loa for stopping through.

– Lea