Javascript Objects and Memory Consumption

I wanted to learn how to measure memory consumption in the…

The Doki Doki Literature Club! Random Poetry Generator: What I Taught Complete Beginners About Programming at an…

I’m Sick of Being a Woman in Tech

I’m tired of being “smart for a girl”, or “successful for a woman”. I find it maddening that people are constantly reminding me that I’m a minority in my field of work. This topic, although meant to celebrate and encourage women, fills me with anxiety. Is my gender more…

Refactoring Matters

Unclean code can be a disaster. Time and time again, app development slows to a crawl or is released with crippling bugs…

Working with Legacy Code

And not letting it work you.

Slowing Things Down in a ‘Hurry-Up’ Situation

With COVID-19 upending everyone’s “normal”, engineering teams are operating at…

How to Learn Faster

Before I jumped, belly-flopped, and swan-dived all at once into the world of software, my world was education and…

Working Remotely

Hello! I’m James, I live in London and I joined 7Factor at the beginning of March after six years at a regular office-based job. I had worked remotely before that so I wasn’t exactly entering unknown territory, but I knew that there were some aspects of working life that I was going to have to…

Coding Boot Camps

Nowadays, in the programming field, you do not need to have a degree to sit or stand at a desk and type all day. It’s no longer necessary to wade through four years of research, learning about mathematical theorems behind Amazon’s delivery truck route, figuring out which classmate is more focused…

Programming in a Pandemic: Promises and Perils for Healthcare IT