Love at first byte
Online recruitment platforms have become very popular these last years. More and more platforms are developing, and even small companies are building their own. One of the best ways to find a job in the tech world is to go through these kinds of platforms that are totally adapted to our field. Here is my …
No, no, it’s not a typo. I’m not talking about full-stack developers. A pull-stack developer is a developer that will copy code from different sources, not understanding or creating his own code. He is “pulling” code. Where do you stand in the whole copy and paste code situation? I definitely was a pull-stack developer To …
An online code editor is a tool that allows you to code on a distant server through your browser. They can be very helpful when you don’t want to spend time installing a whole dev environment on your computer. It is very fast when you only need to test some quick features or just practice …
The first experience is always hard because everything is new to you. You have to manage a lot of new information, you face the imposter syndrome because you don’t feel ready for the job. College doesn’t prepare us for that. Hopefully, you hold on, and it gets easier. My first experience was definitely THE WORST …
Read moreMy first experience was so horrible that I wanted to quit
When I think about the person I was before going to college, I would never have imagined that I would be a programmer. Why is that? It is very simple, I didn’t know anything about programming, code, software, hardware, network… Don’t even get me started on frontend, backend, full-stack. That was pure gibberish for me at …
Using a Mac for the first time, I faced a problem installing PHP. I would install it over and over, and every time the terminal would tell me that I don’t have PHP on my laptop. Furthermore, I didn’t just need to install one version of PHP, I needed multiple versions because I had different …
To develop a feature in JavaScript, I started by looking into the events related to the keyboard. I found three events : keypress, keydown, keyup. keypress was only happening when the user pressed a char key, and I also needed to get the event when the user uses the supr button. So I thought I …
One simple feature I had to code for work was adding a remove cross button at the end of an input to be able to clear the input faster. I thought it would be very easy to code, but as always I encountered a lot of surprises before being able to implement the feature successfully. …
Here is my situation: I had to code a dev that I cut into two different commits. I asked for a review from my team and got feedback on the first commit. I realized I didn’t know how to amend a commit that wasn’t the last one in the git history. I really didn’t want …
Let’s talk about our moments of shame. The “bugs” You spend hours on, to finally realize it is actually not a bug, the problem comes from you. No worries, it happens to all of us, just turn these moments of shame into moments of humor and self-derision. Believe me, it is better to laugh about …
I thought leaving coding would make me happy and change my life. I was wrong, but let me tell you more about that. Remember when I shared with you the feeling that I didn’t belong when starting studying computer science (link to the article). You might think the feeling had gone. It did for a …
It is never easy for me to use z-index especially when you are adding code to an existing project, and you don’t know the whole structure. I was stuck with that for a while, adding z-index on every level of div, but nothing was working. Thanks to StackOverflow, I was able to understand the problem …
When I started to study computer science, my first feeling was clear: I don’t belong here! You might wonder what could make me feel that. I will develop. This feeling is not new for me, growing up in France being from an Arab ascendance and Muslim makes you often feel like you don’t belong in …
Read moreFeeling I don’t belong during my first weeks studying computer science
Funny story! When I started to study computer science in college, I knew nothing about coding. I had never seen one single line of code in my life, except a little algorithm we did in high school using our calculator. My computer use was limited to the basics. Watching YouTube, sending emails, chatting with my …
One of the hardest things I had to deal with in 2020 was to find a new job while I was pregnant. First, let me explain more about my situation at that time. Everything started in New-York I moved from France to the USA for a job in a French company. I signed for an …
It is quite easy to add a placeholder on a select in HTML, you just need to add an option with the text you need as a placeholder. The only thing to look for is to empty the value, add the two properties selected and disabled. <select> <option value="" disabled selected>Select your option</option> <option value="test">Test</option> …
Customizing checkboxes is a little tricky, it requires a lot of additional CSS to make it look nice. I had to work on a custom checkbook, but it ended up not working. Here is the issue I encountered. The mistake I made on the custom checkbox When you create a checkbox, you need an input …
I was trying to apply the CSS property vertical-align: middle on an element but no luck, it was not working as expected. Here is an example of non-functioning code : .container { background-color: red; height: 50px; width: 100px; } .text { vertical-align: middle; } The first option would be to set a line-height on the …
I am very new to Mac, so I am struggling a lot using basic tools. I was following a documented process to install PHP, and it was asked to run the command : However, I got the error message “xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use “Software Update” to install updates”. After some …
When you are working on a project, it is very useful to know the history of the modifications using git. If you are coding on Visual Studio Code like me, you should activate git blame by following these steps : Open Visual Studio Code Press Ctrl+Shift+X (Windows) or ⇧+⌘+X (Mac) Type blame Click install on Git Blame How to …