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Code Like A Girl

·Jul 27, 2018

4 Meetups That Helped Me Grow as A Woman of Color in Tech

Attending various tech Meetups over the years has been pivotal to my growth as a technologist — I took a leap and left my full-time job as an email marketer, to work to pursue software engineering! This summer I kicked off my engineering career as a Full Stack Engineering Intern at Meetup with the Meetups at WeWork team; we are responsible for allowing organizers to seamlessly book…

Women In Tech

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4 Meetups That Helped Me Grow as A Woman of Color in Tech
4 Meetups That Helped Me Grow as A Woman of Color in Tech
Women In Tech

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We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news

·Jan 17, 2018

How I automatically created a Twitter List of FreeCodeCampers in 5 minutes

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…

Twitter

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How I automatically created a Twitter List of FreeCodeCampers in 5 minutes
How I automatically created a Twitter List of FreeCodeCampers in 5 minutes
Twitter

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We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news

·Dec 5, 2017

Conquering the Command Line

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. …

Terminal

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Conquering the Command Line
Conquering the Command Line
Terminal

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Code Like A Girl

·Nov 14, 2017

What I learned from attending a Gender Inclusive Tech Conference

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. …

Tech

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What I learned from attending a Gender Inclusive Tech Conference
What I learned from attending a Gender Inclusive Tech Conference
Tech

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Code Like A Girl

·Apr 18, 2017

Overcoming the Goldilocks Complex

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…

Open Source

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Overcoming the Goldilocks Complex
Overcoming the Goldilocks Complex
Open Source

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HackerNoon.com

·Feb 7, 2017

How to Change Repo Language in GitHub

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…

Github

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How to Change Repo Language in GitHub
How to Change Repo Language in GitHub
Github

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Carefree Collective

·Jan 31, 2017

Black women (and their words) have carried me.

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…

Black Women

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Black women (and their words) have carried me.
Black women (and their words) have carried me.
Black Women

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Black Tech Divas

·Jan 27, 2017

Visualizing Data from the Spotify API

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…

API

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Visualizing Data from the Spotify API
Visualizing Data from the Spotify API
API

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Black Tech Divas

·Jan 26, 2017

How to Hide Your API Keys in Python 🔑

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…

Python

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Hide Your API Keys 🔑
Hide Your API Keys 🔑
Python

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Black Tech Divas

·Nov 27, 2016

Font Awesome is Awesome!

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…

Icons

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Font Awesome is Awesome!
Font Awesome is Awesome!
Icons

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Monica Powell

Monica Powell

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web developer // diversity in tech advocate // #GIRLBOSS awardee // Learn more here: www.aboutmonica.com and www.datalogues.com

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