PinnedPublished inPrototyprHow I pivoted from a career in UX Design to Software Engineering in 6 monthsHi, I’m Rachel. You may recognize me as the Atlassian Support Engineer who fixed your Confluence or Jira instance at some point over the…Nov 15, 20193Nov 15, 20193
Why I love (and need) Write/Speak/Code WorkshopsIt’s been two weeks since I graduated from my immersive full stack engineering bootcamp and as I’ve picked up the job hunt, the feelings…Mar 2, 2020Mar 2, 2020
4 steps for getting better at problem solvingWhen people think of Software Engineers, they think of hacker types who must be futuristic magicians of some sort, kind of like this:Feb 19, 2020Feb 19, 2020
3 steps for kicking your Impostor SyndromeI’m currently in the home stretch of my immersive Software Engineering bootcamp at the Flatiron School, where a number of my classmates…Jan 24, 20201Jan 24, 20201
Deploy a Rails single page app with Vanilla JS to HerokuI recently wrote a simple trivia app that uses a Rails API for the backend, but is a single page app that is loaded through an HTML page…Jan 3, 2020Jan 3, 2020
I just built my first Rails app. Here’s 3 things I learned along the way.This week I wrote my first ever application, complete with a fully functioning back end and a responsive front end. I learned a lot from…Dec 6, 2019Dec 6, 2019