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Why women make gifted coders

Linda Liukas believes the world will be a better place if more women learn computer coding, and has written a children’s book to catch them young

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100 days of fonts

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Landing an entry level job as a developer can be difficult. Without confidence, it's impossible. What if you're paralysed by self-doubt?

New blogpost :D

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SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE

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This is the coolest. I hope young girls everywhere find out about this and apply.

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Adding texture with an SVG mask

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“When you’re a girl, you never let on that you are proud, or that you know you’re better at history, or biology, or French, than the girl who sits beside you...and you put yourself down whenever you can so that people won’t feel threatened by you, so they’ll like you, because you wouldn’t want them to know that in your heart, you are proud, and maybe even haughty, and are riven by thoughts the revelation of which would show everyone how deeply Not Nice you are. You learn a whole other polite way of speaking to the people who mustn’t see you clearly, and you know - you get told by others - that they think you’re really sweet, and you feel a thrill of triumph: 'Yes, I'm good at history/biology/French, and I'm good at this, too.' It doesn’t ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.”

-The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

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This is the best website ever.

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative, work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know that it’s normal and the important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece. It’s only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take awhile. You just gotta fight your way through.

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We are a culture that glorifies ideas

Julie Zhuo

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#internationalwomensday

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Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is the Founder of Girls Who Code, a New York City-based organization that works to educate, empower, and equip teenaged girls with the skills and resources to pursue opportunities in technology and engineering.

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This is a really simple and useful tool (if you are a mac user) that allows you to focus on any pixel on your screen and select the colour. It's basically like the eyedropper tool in Photoshop but you can use it for anything! Sip saves the colours you select in the format of your choice (RGB, hex etc...there are 49 types available) so you can immediately paste it in your code. You can also refer to a history of all the recent colours you have saved. It's such a timesaver and fun for colour-obsessives.

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No matter how many mistakes you make, or how slow your progress, you’re still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

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