Using Twython Twitter API wrapper to add users to a Twitter List — We are going to create a Python script that will automatically search Twitter for individuals who use the #freeCodeCamp hashtag and add them to a Twitter list of “FreeCodeCampers”. Twitter lists are a way to curate a group of individuals on Twitter and collect all of their tweets in a…

A brief guide to getting started on UNIX/Mac OS terminal — When I was first introduced to the command line I really had to adjust to navigating my computer in a black box with just text. So I avoided the command line as much as possible. I was accustomed to the visual cues and feedback that a computer usually provides. …

Key lessons on self-care, growth and amplifying your voice — Ela Conf is an inclusive tech leadership conference and community for cis women, trans men and trans women, and gender-queer people. It was established in the year 2015. Since then, the community has received a lot of support from organizations like Github, Mapbox, Braintree and Zapier. …

Learning how to code — when you’re stuck in-between novice and expert. — “I’m over 101 courses. I want to try 201 and 301.” — thoughts on the lack of classes for self-taught developers between novice and expert. Lately, I’ve felt a bit stuck with my progress on learning how to code as I think I’m comfortable with the fundamentals. As I’m starting…

Is GitHub telling you that your repository is 98.9% CSS or HTML when it isn’t? Here’s how to resolve that issue every time. — I recently started working on a Weather app in Flask to auto-detect a user’s location based off of their IP address. After committing some updates to GitHub my app switched from being labeled as predominately Python to 98.9% CSS even though it was a Flask application in which most of…

Four of my favorite poems on womanhood. — Recently one of my friends posted a Facebook status that proclaimed Black women saved her life countless times. These words have stuck with me — especially now. I feel compelled to share a general appreciation for…

How to quickly visualize stats about Spotify artists with Infogr.am — This post will go over how to connect with the Spotify API to collect information about artists using Python 3 and then create an infographic from the data Spotify returned. Below is a preview of what we will be creating before we dive into the details. Installing Requests In order to…

Protect your application’s API Keys while committing to Git. — If you plan on programming any applications and storing your code in a public GitHub repository then it is important that you protect your API keys 🔑 by ensuring that they are not searchable or otherwise publicly accessible. What’s an API? An application programming interface (API) is a structured set of instructions for…

Are you concerned that icons are slowing down your site/app? You shouldn’t be if you are using an icon font! — What’s special about an icon font. Icon fonts are vector-based: they load fast and are completely scalable (w/ a little CSS). An example of an icon font is Font Awesome. There are tons of different fonts depending on the style/type of icons you are looking for. What is Font Awesome…