PinnedRach FuerstinPrototyprHow 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
Rach FuerstWhy 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
Rach Fuerst4 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
Rach Fuerst3 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
Rach FuerstDeploy 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
Rach FuerstI 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
