Python is my life now. Let that be a lesson to all the boot camp grads (like me) out there: I had never written a single line of Python code when I started my current job. Since then, I’ve taken one Udemy Python course and mostly learned through random docs…

I spent a couple of days struggling with encryption this week, so the weekend seemed like a perfect time to brush up as I hope to close the door on my issue Monday. Then, a funny thing happened. …

I’m getting better at my job. This week, I got a request to update the data formatting on a report that we generate to match the format of data elsewhere. I knew exactly where to find the SQL that generated the data and it didn’t take much time to update…

In my experience, a lot of computer programming is about abstraction. When I first started learning, I coded in a repo that already had a testing infrastructure in place so that I could check my work. I didn’t have to write the tests or even understand how they worked, nor…

Loyal readers might be familiar with a certain Python script in my workplace. If not, here’s what you need to know: it’s super long and hard to edit because it has so many things going on. Thanks to some additional resources and oversight now being provided to my team, we’re…

A good friend of mine recently graduated from coding boot camp and is now dealing with everyone’s favorite part about being an engineer: interviewing. She’s asked me for help with a couple of algorithm problems and I think I’ve been more of an impediment than anything, so it seems as…

Sometimes at work, I get requests that I can “freestyle.” I don’t bother to consult any documentation because I know how all the pieces fit together and even if I’m wrong about the way I think my code will work, I know how to debug locally and in production. …

After I wrote my blog last week, I got a great response from one of my company’s front end engineers. She encouraged me to check out her team’s Formik components since they put the concepts I’ve studied into practice. I’m always happy to get guidance from another engineer, so I…

Formik is a React framework that makes our form-writing lives easier. I’m in the process of learning about it this week, but really I should have learned about it last week when an enthusiastic coworker offered to give me a crash course. I should have understood that their enthusiasm was…