I don’t think a lot of people realize the magnitude of violence against trans people in the United States and worldwide. Or rather, I’d like to think that not-trans people are ignorant of the daily harassment and discrimination that trans people face, rather than fully aware and fully okay with…

They were all extremely picky today — is the answer — sorry for being clickbait-y. This morning I tried to set up an Amazon EC2 instance to host my portfolio and I followed this video with varying degrees of success.

After our first foray into pair programming yesterday, I started thinking about how computers used to be built for more than one user. …

This weekend I rediscovered the beauty of git diff and git cherry-pick — commands that I’m pretty sure we learned the first week, but I think I was still getting over the whole origin master weird names everywhere thing. I’m glad I recapped git, because today was our first foray…

This week covered HTML/CSS, which wasn’t terrible since “how text/images look on a page” is a fairly straightforward concept — but I definitely started to get a bit confused about different ways to use CSS. Like should I be using float and clear/clearfix? Or flexbox? Or grid? I think grid…

Or at Least Check to See if Two Strings Both Have the Letter ‘A’ in Them — My #PathToProgramming™ actually almost started four years ago when I sat in for the first week of CSCI 150, but I chickened out during the add/drop period when I couldn’t get my Fibonacci number counter to work. I ended up switching to ECON 101, which, I think it’s okay to…

Before this week, I thought the little forward-slash in UI/UX was the equivalent of “either-or.” Luckily for me, Google exists, and so does this informative domain name. Seriously there are tons of articles about the UI/UX split, and I think this is just one example of how multidimensional “web development”…

I’ve always been interested in tech, but intimidated by math, and satisfied enough with my niche as an art/literature nerd to ever pursue computer science. But this past year my curiosity finally got the better of me, and I ended up hassling my eternally patient nerd friends to explain the…