🥼➡️👩💻Scientist turned Web designer & developer
Happy New Year! ✨ This past weekend I attended the 2-day Productivity Spark Summit hosted by Ali Abdaal and his lovely wife Dr. Izzy Sealey. Each day began with some thought-provoking questions, guided meditations and exercises to help us visualize what a successful life looks like to us, and set goals that are in alignment. Izzy is a [ ]
The #100DaysOfCode challenge is a tried and true write of passage for all aspiring software developers. I’ve been seeing a lot of devs grinding away at their 100 days of code challenge, and I’ve decided to join in. Today, I wanted to share some of the benefits of tackling this challenge and why you might [ ]
I recently decided I wanted to create a newsletter template from scratch. I’m (over)subscribed to a huge number of newsletters and I’ve noticed most of them are very similar — aka plain. The ones that go the extra mile to create beautiful custom designs really stand out and leave an impression. ✨ Since I’m confident [ ]
What is Creative Coding? Creative Coding is a method that uses computer programming for artistic expression. In this method, the goal is not predefined and the process is based on discovery, variation, and exploration of mostly unexpected results. Tim Rodenbroeker p5.js is a Javascript library. A library is a collection of predefined functions. Libraries [ ]
Many larger companies offer free public APIs that provide developers with access to data for them to use in their own projects. But that’s not always the case.Sometimes you need to reach out and scrape the data for yourself! Web scraper vs Web crawler? Web scrapers and web crawlers are both tools that can be [ ]
I spent yesterday evening working on my first CLI tool! It s a business card app with contact information and clickable links. I also learned how to publish it to npm so that I can share it with the world. Publishing it was surprisingly simple only took about 5 minutes (seriously!). See it in your [ ]
Creating digital art with canvas feels like ✨ magic. ✨ It was originally introduced by Apple for their Safari and dashboard UI components, and (lucky for us) the Canvas API is now built-in to all modern browsers. We can use it to create all sorts of awesome drawings, graphs, animations and games. Anything that you [ ]
As a new developer-in-training I keep hearing the advice that you should not be paying money for anything until you’ve actually gotten your first software engineering position. Creating a website can obviously be quite costly if you pay somebody else to set it up for you, especially if you have a very complex website in [ ]
CS50 is the Intro to Computer Science course instructed by David Malan at Harvard University. According to the syllabus, at the end of the course I will have acquired: What to Expect The entire course runs for 11 weeks and requires a commitment of 10 20 hours per week. It s intended for both majors and non-majors, [ ]
I was frustrated to learn that the Notes app wouldn't let me export my iCloud notes in bulk... then I discovered a quick easy way to get around that.