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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.

Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.

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July 20, 2019

I’m in the Business of Breaking Things

I’ve been doing something new with my coding. I’ve been doing two-hour code sprints–which seems more like a 5k, but whatever sprint is easier to say–where I eliminate distractions and just code. So no social media, email, meetings, slack, etc....

July 10, 2019

You Could Be a Part-Time Dev

Ok, if that title doesn’t automatically make the Flight of the Concords Part-Time Model play in your head, you should go listen to it right now. It’s been one very interesting first week of being a dev, and I had...

May 18, 2019

Women of Trauma React Redux Project

I’ve stuck with the same project idea for the last three projects for a couple of reasons: I have a hard time coming up with ideas, I’m passionate about this idea, I wanted to clearly compare the processes of coding...

May 12, 2019

Moms Who Code

There are stages of learning. There are stages of being part of a community. This morning I went back and reread my blog post from last Mother’s Day, and most of what I wrote still stands. So today I want...

April 30, 2019

Learning How to Learn

I’ve been committed to this coding thing for about a year now. I’m about to finish Flatiron School, spread my wings and fly through into the tech universe. There are a lot of things I’ve learned over the last year...

April 6, 2019

The Great Experience of My First Tech-related Job Interview

My plan has always been to interview for jobs after I finished Flatiron School. But when the perfect job comes along, you have to apply for it. It was PT, remote, paid well, and was working for an organization that...

March 23, 2019

My Rails + JS Project: A lesson in detective work

I’ll admit, when I started taking my Rails project and adding JavaScript, it broke my heart a little. I loved where I had left off and I had big plans for how to expand it. I could see it all...