A couple of months ago I wrote about the Coder’s Journey, and one of the most important parts of any journey is finding a mentor. This might be the person who hands you the sword to defeat the dragon or...
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It’s been a week since my first full, IRL conference, and my mind is still exploding. Special thanks to the wonderful organizers from Revolution Conference for the diversity ticket. Without it, I wouldn’t have a renewed drive to learn as...
I’m an awkward INTJ. If you don’t know what that means, I love this description from 16 Personalities: INTJs are brilliant and confident in bodies of knowledge they have taken the time to understand, but unfortunately the social contract is...
This is for all my moms out there learning to code. Happy Mothers Day! “How do you do it? How do you momlife and codelife at the same time? How do you not lose your mind?” Here’s the thing, you...
I’ve adjuncted in a university English Department for the last ten years, and it took learning to code to realize that adjuncting was a dead-end job. In January, I took an accelerated bootcamp prep online for a couple of weeks....
Obviously, the tech industry isn’t dead or even dying. In fact, it’s flourishing. So why would we need to save it? Well, no one can deny that there is a toxic culture going on in the tech industry, and that...
I’ve been incredibly fortunate to find an amazing community of people cheering me on as I learn to code. I haven’t had to face discrimination in the workplace, people demeaning my abilities because I’m a woman, or implicit sexism. But...