An abstraction as a term has many meanings. Reading a lot of computer science textbooks, tech documentation, I have bumped into the word quite a few times, and it has always been ambiguous what that refers to exactly. …
Let’s face it, you will stay indoors for a little longer. COVID-19 has had many people start thinking about what is actually important, re-prioritise. I don’t need to be telling you again that fashion industry is polluting the planet.
1. The True cost
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YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxhCpLzreCw
Year: 2015.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt03162938/
If you can only watch one movie about the fashion industry, pick this one.
This all-round critically acclaimed movie is a true encapsulation of the world of fast fashion, being especially relevant today. This…
Originally published: https://dev.to/riittagirl/february-favourites-the-tech-edition-2020-5424
Following a tradition writing about my latest and greatest discoveries of the month. I have no idea, if anyone even needs it, but I though it would be fun to keep it a a diary of sorts, hope somebody might find it useful.
My Work with Design systems
I have been working on a Helsinki…
Originally published: https://dev.to/riittagirl/january-favourites-the-tech-edition-2020-33ch
As I decided to make it a monthly tradition to share something I found interesting for the last month, here is my (a bit late) January summary.
An Algorithm: Simplex Noise
My initial idea was to create an ‘Aurora effect’ with WebGL and I stumbled upon an interesting implementation on Coderops using simplex-noise npm…
Originally published on https://dev.to/riittagirl/december-favourites-the-tech-edition-2019-2l2b
Following the infamous YouTube trend in the beauty community to post about your favorite things at the end of each month, I decided to go the same route and share what I have managed to for the last 30 days, all completely programming related.
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Spoiler: there is no right way. #justwebpackthings
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Update 23.06.2018: I have received a bunch of comments about what worked and what can be improved! Thank you for your feedback! I have tried to take every comment into consideration here! At a certain point I have also decided…
For a few month I started to volunteer for the Shortcut organisation as a coding teacher. About the organisation you can find more information here.
Since then my teacher journey has begone. I am helping refugees to learn some HTML & CSS & JavaScript every Thursday for a couple of…
