When I was an instructor at Girls Who Code and Techtonica, my absolute favorite lesson to deliver to students was one I had created around asking for help. Why? Three reasons: Asking for help tends to be the most emotion-filled aspect of being a software engineer, but I love helping people understand that it doesn’t […]
If I could eliminate just 2 things from my day to improve the quality of my work, I’d want to eliminate distractions and context switching. I developed the strategies that follow in an attempt to make it easier for myself to sit down and write the best-quality code I can. The strategies might seem extreme, […]
It’s important to me to get to know as many of my colleagues as I can. By forming relationships with both engineers and non-engineers I get a more holistic understanding of the product I help build and other people’s relationship to it. I work on one small part of our flagship product, and there are […]