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The Pragmatic Empiricist is a thought-provoking blog following a curious, middle-aged woman navigating technology while blending real-life experiences and knowledge to find the truth. This blog is Idea for the untraditional technology professionals, thinkers and lifelong learners seeking grounded insight on the crossroads of technology, philosophy and personal growth.

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Let's be honest, despite the clever intro; I have no clue what I am doing. I am trying to figure out how to transition from one career field to another. I currently work in Acquisitions but I want to be a Software Engineer (Full Stack Dev). I will use this post to help me track and share my ongoing journey through the tech world. Good Luck to my future self. This should be a bumpy ride.

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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Dyyanna L. Draw

Lost in Tech....

"Be brave enough to suck at something new."

Right now it's 💟

I am RESILIENT

Resume Highlights

I'm so smart; blah, blah, blah.
My education for those who care. 😩

My Resume

Professional Experience:

12+ years in Public-Service working in Acquisitions for the Dept. of Defense.

Education:

  1. Master of Arts: Procurement & Acquisitions Management
  2. Bachelor of Business Administration: Management

Certifications:

  1. Certified Nice Person 😇.
  2. Cisco & W3Schools - CSS Certfified Developer Certification
  3. Cisco & W3Schools - JavaScript Certfified Developer Certification
  4. Cisco & W3Schools - Python Certfified Developer Certification

Coding Projects

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SideQuests

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Rants, Reflections & Revelations

If you have some idle time, feel free to stop by my personal blog. My blog is just a place to document my journey.

Link to my Blog: "Pragmatic Empiricist"

Goals:

  • become more efficient with the Terminal Command Line
  • certification in GIT
  • Linux Certification
  • master Animations - CSS

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Friday, December 12, 2025

📚📆 Oops I Joined a Book Club!

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📚Oops I Joined a Book Club!

Birds of a feather, read books together! LOL I made that up. 

I woke up one day and decided to seek like minded individuals. So I joined a local book club. 

Anyways, a random Google on the Internet and I found the website: www.bookclubs.com and joined a cute little group called the "Philly Sci-Fi Society" ran by a person named Katie. I blindly joined after seeing the current book on the list was UBIK a book unknown to me but indeed a Sci-Fi read. I started a little interaction with the group message board and WHAMMY! I get to meet them next month on the 10th of Jan. at Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books in Germantown. 🙌🏾 So anyways, I ordered the required reading and scheduled time each day to read the book for my bookclub and the book I already started. 

We can add my two books to my perpetual list of things to do 😩🤣 I may or may not have a problem. We can say for sure......

Anywhoo! to accomplish this task, I have created a short schedule for myself that will include coding and reading. 

DAYTIME BOOK: 

The Children of Blood and Bones Series will be my daytime book. (before Sunset)

I read part of this book before and so its a snoozer to me because none of its new. But I have to re-read it before I go on two the other parts in the series. To speed things up I'm using an audiobook. Mostly, I look forward to reading the next book. 


NIGHTTIME BOOK: 

Ubik will be my nighttime book. (Sundown) 

Super Sci-Fi book. I would have never chose it. This will be my before bed (or in the bed) I will be using my eReader and reading my Bookclub book. This will be considered my nighttime reading. Of course I have no limit to any of these activities, but the minimum is to pick them up and read a few pages (for progress). 



I have also created a date tracker in my book to annotate when i read and how many pages per session. This will count as more of an accountability log. 

Anyways, I look forward to meeting my book club and I will be back to provide reviews on them shortly.

If you want to join: https://bookclubs.com/clubs/6114455/join/4dde0412

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

🍽️ What's for dinner? An Elephant! 🐘

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Back to pecking away at these two courses that I started taking. Both via the Cisco Networking Academy (designed and developed by OpenEDG JS Institute, and implemented by the Cisco Networking Academy.)  

SIDE***NOTE

I am in LOVE with Cisco Networking Academy because I'm able to utilize my Macbook Accessibility features and accelerate my reading by highlighting the text and letting my computer read to me. 

see below, A lazy girls guide to reading on the computer: 

Step 1: Navigate to Setting/Accessibility 
Step 2: Click Spoken Content
Step 3: Select Speak Selection

A nice little controller will pop up (I couldn't figure out how to screenshot it) that will allow you to start, stop, pause and speed up/down the text voice being read to you. 

Go to the course, highlight the text you want read. 💃🏽


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I finally feel like I found a course that won't waste my time. 

  1. First of all the courses are meant to lead to certifications.
  2. Secondly neither of the courses have a lot of filler information. (aka, blabbering instructors)



SIDE NOTE: 

I must confess; my excitement may or may not 😜 have led me to also add additional courses from the Cisco Networking Academy to my dashboard.

 Specifically, 


which is the first in a 2-course series that will prepare me for the JSE – Certified Entry-Level JavaScript Programmer and JSA – Certified Associate JavaScript Programmer certification exams.



AND 

Don't get me wrong, I love reading independently, but I am so extremely excited and 😩impatient to learn the information that I lose track of where I am or get distracted and start reading some random MDN doc.

From what I can tell, most or all of the courses listed on the Cisco Networking Academy are FREE!!! A lot more reputable and a lot more inexpensive that taking those Coursera and Linkedin Courses. The only thing that I will be paying for is the exam, which has a great credential to validate my skill set (the same as a college degree, I hope).  

Web Dev Essentials: CSS (WebDev2), is aligned with the WDA™ – Certified Associate Web Developer certification. (cost: $195 for the exam)

Anyhoo......I would highly recommend this course over all of the others that I tried on the internet. 

The Web Dev Essentials: HTML (WebDev1), is aligned with the WDE™ – Certified Entry-Level Web Developer certification. ($69.00 for the exam) which prepares me for the PCEP – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer certification exam from the Python Institute.




🤞🏾CONCLUSION:🤞🏾

Staying on this path will lead me to the following Certifications which I think is a great start to my future tech resume.

🤞🏾 WDE™ – Certified Entry-Level Web Developer Certification (HTML)
🤞🏾  WDA™ – Certified Associate Web Developer Certification (CSS)
🤞🏾 JSE™ - Certified Entry Level JavaScript Programmer Certification (JavaScript)
🤞🏾 JSA™ – Certified Associate JavaScript Programmer Certification (Advanced JavaScript)
🤞🏾  PCEP™ – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer (Python)

This journey to the perfect training program was long and tedious. A lot of man-hours were wasted trying each course and deactivating the accounts when I didn't like something. 

But finally! I am confident that I am in the right place. I am glad I quit all of those other courses. Exhales. 

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