Blocked Apple Account

I set up a dedicated Apple Account a little over a week ago so that I could isolate all of my developer stuff from my personal Apple Account. I jumped right in to the Apple Developer Program enrollment process, submitted my application, paid my fee, and got the acceptance email. However, started running into a bunch of weird error messages when trying to deploy my app. Figured I had done something wrong, so wiped as much as I could and started over. Then kept getting blocked when trying to log in to my Apple Account. “Apple Account has been locked...
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Just one blog

I’m not even a year into this journey, and I’ve already lost track of how many different blog/portfolio/landing pages I’ve built for myself and bluestem (my consulting/services business). Let’s see if I can retrace my steps:
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Hello, world

Time to get this blogging party started. I’ve heard consistency is key on these things, so that’s what we’re going for.

Careering

Such a carefully considered and well thought out approach to ‘careering.’ Absolutely love this. Careering by Teal Process & Company
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Pretentiousness, or why I chose Tailwind

I’m nowhere near qualified yet to comment on the actual merits of Tailwind as it relates to most of the other common CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, Bulma, etc), but I do know why I chose to implement it on this blog.
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Bashing through the snow

Just finished three of the bash tutorials on freeCodeCamp and feels like I’m driving on a freshly plowed road. Not sure how universal this is, but I’ve been blindly copying so many bash commands along this journey so far, and it bothered me so much that I didn’t understand why so many of them worked, or how they worked. I realize that it might be putting the cart in front of the horse a little bit, but I would definitely recommend learning bash earlier than later. Between having the context while you’re developing and also being able to significantly improve...
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I believe I can fly.io

Today I successfully deployed my first Django app with a Postgres database attached. And hoo buddy, that feeling you get after hours of wrestling with a problem… pretty, uh, pretty good
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