Geraldine's Tech Blog

What was supposed to be a simple exercise in updating old GitHub projects has become a week-long endeavor involving experimentation with Netlify Blobs, an attempt to understand the differences between blobs and files, and learning how to convert between t…

As a self-taught developer, one of my biggest insecurities is that I don't have "real" experience working in a "real" software engineering work environment.

I first encountered the .localeCompare() method while doing a Codewars kata that asked you to write a function that first sorted an array of attendee objects by their language key, and if they were the same, then sort by their firstName alphabetically.

This post was originally published as part of my submission for the 2021 GitHub Actions Hackathon on dev.to.

As the title says, I'm Geraldine 👋🏾 And I'm headed towards a career in tech 🚀 Since college, I've been at different jobs that didn't quite feel right, whether it was the actual work or the environment.

In the early phase of learning how to code, it's easy to get distracted by picking the right text editor and installing the best plugins to be as efficient as possible.

Recently, I read this article by Akshay Saini about pseudo-learning, and it reminded me of how I've been learning wrong, or not as effectively as I could've been.