The Dangers of Over-Extending your-self

Having worked in a completely different career for the last 10 years and now slowly ageing in my late twenties with skills and experience somewhat irrelevant to entry level programming, I keep finding myself with a strong desire to be better, faster. To learn…

Stop wrapping new female coders in cotton wool.

I’m a self-taught female programmer trying to move from a career in hospitality (also very male dominant) to a career in Software engineering.

All of my mentors are men and I struggle to find women in senior positions but I don’t think female coders…

Build Confidence, Aim High, Fall Hard. Repeat.

What a roller coaster it has been… I have finally found the confidence in my…

IAM with AWS

The following is a step by step tutorial on how to set up Identity Access management or IAM with AWS on your first login. It runs through multifactor authentication on the root account as well as setting up new users and assigning them to groups. There are also two examples of assigning policies, either…