Women have been neglected for centuries when it comes to our health. Here’s your reminder that it’s okay to not be okay. — Since ancient times, women have been neglected in healthcare with the impacts widespread affecting our medical treatments, diagnosis's, and the way we are treated. The U.S. …

Join Ready Set Code, a technology focused publication for all things coding. — Hi there! We’re excited you’re here. Ready Set Code was built by coders, for coders. This is a publication focused on anything within the technology space. What we’re looking for It doesn’t have to be perfect, we’ll leave comments if there are things that can be improved before publicizing. …

We can all do better to optimize our experiences for everyone. Here’s how we can do that from the beginning of a project and beyond. — Most home pages suck when it comes to accessibility. More eloquently: “96.3% of [the million] home pages [tested] had detected WCAG 2 failures according to WebAIM’s 2023 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages. What’s the cause? Ignorance? Cost to make it happen? Lack of awareness?

This approach uses Infrastructure as Code — CloudFormation, to standardize your monitoring practices around CloudFront distributions. — Do you have a CloudFront distribution set up to an S3 bucket? What happens if something goes wrong? You need to set up these two things, at minimum, to ensure you are notified when something going awry. Monitor for your S3 bucket being deleted. This is critical in case someone…

My journey towards self-compassion. — I’ve watched my mom give so much of herself to the world around her. I’m not kidding, she’s a nurse who provides care to people with serious mental illnesses, often putting herself in dangerous situations while suppressing her own needs. In many ways, I am my mother’s daughter. It’s easier…

Reviewing media queries around motion, dark / light mode, and color contrast that we can learn from to optimize experiences for all users. — All features within HTML and CSS exist for a reason. Media queries are a great example of what we can learn about a user based on what their device and browser settings are. …

An advanced tutorial that leverage tools like Amplify Hub and Redux Toolkit to listen to auth events and update our Redux store immediately. — Prerequisites There’s plenty of tutorials from React, AWS Amplify, and Redux Toolkit about getting started. Instead of reinventing the wheel, this tutorial is focused on developers already familiar with those three concepts, you will need (1) a React App, (2) connected your app to Amplify, (3) have Auth already configured, and…

My lessons learned over the past thirty years, I hope you take them into consideration so we can make this world just a little better. — I remember sitting in Home Ec sewing pillows and adding stamps to letters, learning how to bake some basic items. I recall agonizing over science and math assignments (that I didn’t retain very well over a lifetime), and history lessons. I also remember struggling with intense grief, being bullied, and…

AWS can be overwhelming! Here are five important services to check out that are common across most AWS development. — The AWS services provided here can be powerful tools to gain insights into what you are building. They can help improve security, performance, efficiency, latency and optimize costs. Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) There a few best practices when it comes to Identity and Access Management (IAM). A critical tenet of…