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...
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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.
Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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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...
March 3, 2019
So You're About to Apply for Dev Jobs: advice from your Twitter Friends
There’s enough pressure going into an interview. You don’t need to be unprepared too. Feeling anxious about my upcoming job search, I turned to the hive mind that is Twitter. Here’s what I learned:
February 23, 2019
Building Out Our Schema: Screenwriting Project Continued
So we have our models and associations, but before we really start to code, we need to get a better idea of what information these models will hold. When we look at the schema, it gives us a picture of...
February 17, 2019
Making Associations: The Basics
I like to think of associations as relationships. How is this model related to that model? If they met each other on the street, and their friend was there, how would they describe their relationship? The most common relationships are...
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