very opinionated thoughts on the web, by tiff

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Update: Lots of Things Happening

I thought I’d post a short update about why I haven’t been blogging as much. These past two months have been a whirlwind for me. I am looking for jobs and I have gotten some interest. I can’t say too much right now, but things are looking

Event Handlers in Check Yo Self

Since starting Check Yo Self a month ago, I have been at a loss as to what the logic should be, how to register click event handlers with jQuery, basically everything I learned the past two years, I drew a blank on 1. This baffled me. How could I know

Check Yo Self Update: Eliminating Dev Dependencies

I worked like a fiend over the weekend on Check Yo Self, reading documentation, implementing features, and taking some away. Going over the write-good issues on GitHub to see how if it could parse extra characters 1. I saw an issue where a guy implemented using his GitHub Project Page

Open Source and GitHub Stars

When open sourcing a piece of software, you are taking risks. It’s true for everyone open sourcing a project, even more so for PoC and women 1, though this isn’t going to touch on that. You could get trolled hard by bros who think what you’re working

CRUD: My New App, Check Yo Self

I have taken a bit of a break from the coding/learning thing as I suffer from a bit of depression every now and again, outside of the usual. It’s a woman’s thing, as they say. So while I was a bit down and cantankerous I took a

Hacking on a Project: Getting Out of the Tutorial Loop

For a long time now, I have been increasingly bothered by my lack of Open Source contributions on GitHub 1 and of real world projects to put on my portfolio and resume. Everyday, practically, for the past two months, I have been irritated, by my lack of production. I have

From Web Development to Software Engineering

So this is a brief post about my intent for my career and prospects for myself. I love web. But I don’t want to be about that life. The more I do software engineering, the more I fall in love with the challenge and the languages1. Classical OOP is