I'm a designer turned web developer with a disability: Multiple Sclerosis. Technology helped save my career and my livelihood, so I want to pass along the knowledge.
Getting Started
Probably the most boring part of learning to code in the classroom...but in the wild, it is SUPER helpful for starting your project and also when you come back to it a week later. What is it? Why do I care? Pseudo code is fake code. It's
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Since this gave me a little trouble, I figured I'd share my process of updating a Ghost blog from an older v3 to the latest v4. I had used a DigitalOcean one-click setup initially, so I wasn't super clear on how to dig in and update
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Whether you're a developer or just trying to familiarize yourself with HTML, you may be used to having your developer tools ready-to-go in Chrome or Firefox. What if you need to access them on Safari? You right-click in the Safari browser and you hardly get ANYTHING! To fix
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It’s a fair question. Look, I graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design, and I was so excited to start my career in design. Problem was, I have never been hired for my skills in design. Much to my chagrin, I ended up in the dev space—but that’
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I just witnessed something amazing. I’ve been trying to use the keyboard for navigation in various programs, now that I know that’s an important way people access the computer. While in Slack's desktop app, I noticed the familiar glowing outline that often shows up around buttons
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You hear the telltale sound of a Slack notification, and your eyes seem to take on a life of their own; drawn to the app to see the message that has been sent. It might not even be pertinent to your job or processes, but we love to hear that
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Whether it’s note-taking or tracking my finances or making a whole bunch of changes all at once, spreadsheets are a secret superpower. If you buy / have a subscription for Microsoft Office, then you should have access to Excel, but if you don’t or are looking for a free
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Don’t you have to be some super smart programmer to automate stuff? BTW: Don’t look up the definition of “automation” on Google, because it uses “automated” in its definition! Rant over about definitions that use their own word to explain themselves… Let’s look at what the word
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Have you ever read another person’s resume? I’m not talking about the “example” resumes from Googling, “Good resume examples,” I’m talking about a real person’s resume. It’s surprising how dull and not useful the majority are. If you’re trying to hire someone, you want
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Some tasks have to be done on a weekly or monthly basis, and you may be forced to dedicate a certain amount of time to complete it, no matter what. Take laundry, for example. No matter what you do, it takes the washing machine an hour to run. Unless you’
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My first full-time employment was in a job from which I wasn’t expecting to learn much of anything. I had graduated in Graphic Design, but no one seemed interested in that skillset when they learned I was decent at HTML/CSS. So I found myself in a cubicle doing
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Before my MS attack, I was a huge high-achiever. Everything I did (in my career) was focused on higher quantity and higher quality outputs. As soon as that norm was taken away, due to MS, I started to shift my approach to goals to be less about impressive numbers. I