We all go through personal times, birth, marriage, death, divorce, illness... Why don't we talk about it more? Sharing my experience around the birth of my daughter, the imposter syndrome and anxiety that has clouded my developer side with it, and giving myself permission to come back swinging.
Software's architecture is often compared to the structure of a home -- the foundation and building blocks to what will become a house. So doesn't it make sense to compare our code to the clutter in our home? Let's identify some easy wins for cleaning up our codebase and take action on them.
Hindsight is 20/20, so what's the point if you don't share it with the world? Here's a few things I've been thinking about recently that I wish I could go back and tell fresh-out-of-college Kim. 'Cause man, she could have used a lot of help.
“Do you have any questions for us?” Have you been the victim of this question, and didn’t know what to say? Did you stumble through a response that sounded like “No, I think I’m good.” or “So.. are the snacks in the kitchen free?” Yikes. Or.. Perhaps you did ask some questions.. but then a […]
A while back a #devdiscuss post by @ThePraticalDev sparked a great discussion on the advice users have for getting the most out of Github. Either for personal use, team use, open source, career advancement and more. I took the liberty to compile some of the best advice and write this post. Branches The first topic I […]
I enjoy building my resumé, mostly because it’s a way to express yourself before the recruiter even talks with you. We’re extremely lucky to work in a creative field also..we can get away with certain things (colors) on our resumés that other fields cannot. Colors, are argumentative, but I like to use them to draw […]
Earlier this summer I reached out to the Tech Ladies Facebook group and asked for book recommendations for summer reading. What I was hoping for was a few recommendations to help propel my career and my attitude… What I received was enough recommendations to propel my whole teams career and attitude – it was absolutely […]
Once upon a time, there was a junior developer, Alex, who was fresh out of college. Alex’s new team was full of people with multiple years of experience. This made the learning opportunity exciting, while also extremely paralyzing with imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome restricted the junior developer to use only the practices recommended by the […]