Leticia Portella's thoughts and learnings

This post has a small caveat… we did all this in a small break from the lockdown, so we didn’t go to closed spaces and a lot of things were still in recovery.

This was my baby shopping list I focused on the bare bare minimum because things can go insane If in Ireland, do buy things in advance.

When I got pregnancy, my instagram/feed went insane.

We asked the midwife in our classes and the service is available in Ireland but not as common.

Pregnancy for men —> most books focus on mom, this one is for dads Save our sleep by Tizzy Hall and When your child is sick by Prof Alf Nicholson —> both recommended by my GP When your child is sick became super useful when she was a bit older.

Clothes Penneys and Dunnes have great cotton basic clothes but they have a size small Next has the best and cutest outfits but they are more expensive.

Last update: Apr 2025 Estimated costs Solicitor and fees (we budgeted ~3000 for this) Stamp duty is 1% of house price You need 10k on the moment of sale agreed You need 10% of house value (banks won’t lend more than 90%) A house inspection (if used) / Sna…

Last update: Apr 2025 As soon as you discover… The biggest recommendations are: Do pelvic physiotherapy.

Welcome to Dublin :)

When I decided to try to write a book, the only certainty I had was that I was not an expert on a lot of topics I wanted to write about.

Many many moons ago, I wrote a blog post about what was like in my first 6 months at Stripe.

This is the translation of the keynote talk I gave at Pycon Brazil 2022.

It’s a book about software development for people that don’t have a background in computer science but want to know more about this world.

While trying to check test coverage for a file that had multiple Class Based Views (CBV) everything was returning as coverage but they weren’t!

I fell into a case where I wanted to count the tags that were present in an HTML file and I didn’t want to download any library (like BeautifulSoup) to do so.

This is the forth post on how to create your website step by step!

This is the third post on how to create your website step by step!

Last year (2021) I decided to add GoatCounter as the analytics tool for my blog.

Last week I was part of the 2nd online edition of Pycon Brazil.

I wanted to go to Northern Ireland since I first heard of the magnificent Giant’s Causeway.

This is the second post on how to create your website step by step!

We arrived in Faro late on Tuesday evening.

I’ve written over and over about why you should have a blog and write on it.

I had a Django model that had 2 regular attributes and a user Foreign Key:

I talked to Tim Bourguignon at the Dev Journey podcast about career life and mentoring.

A friend of mine told me this week that she was invited to give a talk at a conference, and asked me what I thought about it.

All my career I worked in places where people were better than me.

From: Little Women ‘My Beth ‘Sitting patient in the shadow Till the blessed light shall come, A serene and saintly presence Sanctifies our troubled home.

There are people who can play the piano wonderfully while others can’t even clap in rhythm (me).

One thing that I always say that is hard from learning computer science by yourself, is not knowing what you don’t know.

Microphone I use a Blue Yeti microphone for recording my podcast.

“This post is also known as “My saga learning Scala - Part 5”

Panel with the London Chapter of Latinas in Tech!

Design I use Canva for all my podcasts designs and my resumee!

Hacktoberfest is here and it is an awesome moment to contribute to open-source!

Create a venv with python3 python3 -m venv MyFirstVenv Create a venv with conda conda create -n MyFirstVenv python=2.7 Understanding VirtualEnvs Virtualenv is a Python tool developed to isolate development environments.

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I didn’t study computer science in college and I never took a “formal” programming course.

I was recently helping a friend who was transitioning from Matlab to Python.

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LaTeX (yes, written exactly like this) is a system that allows you to write documents without worrying about the style of the presentation.

I was handling some LaTeX files and I needed code coloring.

Tutorial given during the OceanHackWeek 2020

Leticia is a Brazilian developer who changed career to web development four years ago.

If you ever told me you are learning to code (or anything, really), chances are I told you you should have your blog and write in it.

This post is also known as “My saga learning Scala - Part 4“

As the years went by, I developed a framework to deal with my impostor syndrome in different scales it occurs.

Although we think of a software as being this one massive thing that does a lot of things, we can thing of a software as a huge pile of small functions that work together.