If you want to attain mastery of anything you are going to have to accept that you start out being pretty useless. …

I’ve messed up my life choices before. I started a medical degree and discovered I would never be the compassionate carer that I aspired to be. …

It’s Engineering Project week at Makers and I have had a mightily frustrating day… I’ve been trying to figure out how to save images uploaded using carrierwave into a remote database hosted by Amazon Web Services. That comes directly after another very seriously frustrating day where I managed to crash…

Today I discovered that javascript dealt in promises. I’m afraid that information did my nut in. My already overloaded, tiny-brain decided to curl up in a corner and quietly implode. …

I’ve been dreading the new language week at Makers. Up until now I have probably been in the comfortably average camp in terms of my Ruby abilities. That position has given me confidence and space to breathe and the flexibility to experiment with my learning. Week 5 has been a…

We are being bombarded with new concepts on a daily basis and oscillate between panic and excitement. While last week I suggested that all we need to do is to cling onto forward momentum like our lives depended on it, this week I am faced with a new obstacle to…

In my earlier post I was recapping week one at Makers and discussing the joys of Test Driven Development. Riveting stuff! In management speak, individuals can apparently be categorised into one of nine different Belbin personality types such as: Implementer, Co-ordinator and Resource-Investigator.

In my earlier post I described how Sourdough production could be the next best thing in coding productivity hacks. Oh blimey, this course is whizzing past. I’m trying to reflect on the whirlwind that was week 1, while week 2 is already dissolving before my eyes. While day 1 was…

In my earlier post I explained why I quit the NHS to join the Makers coding bootcamp. I’m into the final week of the pre-course and am now experimenting with both the Pomodoro technique and sourdough production for enhancing my coding environment. Part of the appeal of Makers is the…