Deryck Hodge

This afternoon, I'm leaving for a Fourth of July beach trip. I'm sitting here going round and round about whether or not I take my iPad. It's a silly debate I'm having with myself. "Just take the iPad if you want

Every year, my family has a family writing contest. The first year, it was a thing my older daughter and I did on a whim. There’s this church out in the boonies where we have a family Christmas get together. It’s a long drive out there, so we

I get something like this question all the time. Should I get a computer science degree? Should I do a development boot camp? The general point of the question being, what is the best way to get started working in software development? Since I'm asked this so often,

Yesterday, I wrote about the effort I'm putting into going back to grad school. Where did this come from, I hear you say? Let me point you to my post on how I recently got to take some time between jobs as a reset period. During that reset,

For the next few weeks, I'll be spending all my extracurricular effort on finishing my application to grad school. If I get accepted – no, when I get accepted (manifesting it, right?!) – I'll pursue an MFA in Writing at SCAD here in Atlanta. This is all life-comes-full-circle

I recently quit my job at Apple. More on that in a later post, but for now, the main point is that I've spent the last 3 weeks unemployed. I can't recommend 3 weeks of uninterrupted time off enough, even if you have to quit your

Consider this my "hello, world!" Though if I'm being honest, this is like the 3rd iteration of this website. I love the name of the site, but I keep searching for what to write about. So I start something at anderycks.net and then end up