Love at first byte
Sharing some feedback regarding my experience as a female frontend developer in the tech industry. I have studied in France in an engineering school and I have been working in tech for the past four years now. Being a woman in tech is not always easy, but at the same time, it is AMAZING! I tell you everything, the good sides and the bad. I really hope to be able to encourage girls to get into tech and contribute to building the future.
It’s time to redefine the word “professional.” Why is this word tinted with cold and inhumanity? Being professional nowadays is so far from everything that characterizes us as human beings, especially for women. We’re told to suppress our emotions, prioritize our work lives over our personal lives, and be superficial. And let’s not even get …
Read moreRedefining Professionalism: Embracing Our Humanity in the Workplace
As a junior developer, I totally get how intimidating it can be to ask for help from a senior developer or other more experienced professionals. I’ve definitely had my share of struggles when it comes to effectively communicating with developers and getting the assistance I need. And now that I’m a lead tech on my …
Read moreHow to Get the Help You Need from a Senior Developer
Recently, I reached peak doom-scroll levels on Twitter. My Earl Grey tea went cold by the time I trekked through the epic thread foretelling a dystopian future for novel writers like us. It claimed we’ll be rendered obsolete by Artificial Intelligence; the only viable career option in five years’ time is “prompt generators” for our machine learning …
Read moreAI writing tools won’t make authors extinct. Here’s why
With covid, our way of working totally changed. I remember when I started working as a developer 5 years ago. I was looking up to some people at the company with more experience than me. They were allowed to have one day of remote work a week. It became a dream. I hoped that one …
I am writing to you from the other side of a 13-week Full-Stack bootcamp provided by the fabulous CodeFirstGirls!An amazing experience I will never regret, but one I could have been better prepared for in a number of ways… so, if I could hop in a time machine and go back to the spring, what …
Depending on your studies, you are often asked to apply for internships. As a student with no previous experience, it can be hard to find your first internship for three main reasons : You don’t have a lot of competencies to justify for certain internships. You don’t know how to look and where to look …
You are a student and you’re not quite sure about what to study? Or you want to switch careers, but you don’t know what is the best field to choose? I’ll give you the best reasons to start a career in the tech industry in general, and as a woman in particular. There are a …
Ah! The famous stand-ups! The daily meetings you have with your team to talk about what you did the day before and what you are planning to do today. An important step if your team is following the Agile methodology. The issue that can happen when you have to talk during a stand-up is either …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Hello world! This is my first post on my website, I can’t wait to share all the things I learn with you guys. As a web developer, I learned a lot at school and also at work, but there are still so many things I learn every day and I will be glad to share …