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Content Warning: Burnout and other mental health struggles.

Special thanks to the incomparable Sylwia Vargas for helping me structure and focus this post better, as well as to Uli for making kind corrections.

Let's face it, getting stuck on a programming problem stinks , doesn't it?

What a year!

Most of the conference talks I've given this year have not only been online, but also pre-recorded.

I have spent the last 10+ years freelancing and contracting as a software developer.

A few months ago, Timea and I started hosting the Gender Equality over Coffee podcast, as part of the Women Techmakers Vienna organisation.

This year's Women Techmakers Vienna conference was meant to take place in March 2020, but had to be postponed.

I've been really enjoying my time using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short.

One of my recent projects involved having a cash register print receipts to a thermal printer.

Our coding study group Study Jams needed a place online where folks could come together remotely, share and learn together, as we've done in person for a number of years.

One of my recent gigs was bringing out an update to a React Native app.

One of my recent tasks has been to take the current test suite for a large-ish Rails app and speed it up as much as possible.

What a start to the year!

This is the story of my first proper hardware project.

While attending the super-fun Vienna BEAMers study group, where we learn all things Elixir and Erlang, I've been making tiny contributions to the Panoptikum project, which creates a podcast-oriented social network.

Ok, so this one had me stuck for ages, and I thought I’d share what went wrong.

Welcome!

I ran into a lot of trouble getting this set up!

When I'm not fighting crime and going about my daily coding life, I'm teaching kids to code computer games.

Over the holidays, I pondered on how I could make these scripts for slurping up localizable strings in RubyMotion projects easier for myself or other developers.

It's not all Bachelor Project for me!

Last weekend, I had my first experience in coaching at a Rails Girls event.

This is part of an ongoing series of posts about Homesick, my bachelor project .

(Many thanks to @FloorDrees for the photos!)

This is part of an ongoing series of posts about Homesick, my bachelor project .

This is part of an ongoing series of posts about Homesick, my bachelor project .

This is part of an ongoing series of posts about Homesick, my bachelor project.

My Bachelor project is called "Homesick App", the description being as follows: