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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! In 2021, when I started my first role in DevRel I also spoke at this year’s edition of DevRelCon.

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. This January, that changed when I became a developer advocate at CodeSee.

A few months ago, Timea and I started hosting the Gender Equality over Coffee podcast, as part of the Women Techmakers Vienna organisation. It’s been a blast!

This year’s Women Techmakers Vienna conference was meant to take place in March 2020, but had to be postponed. After three months of monitoring the possibility of holding it later, we as a team decided to hold it online.

I’ve been really enjoying my time using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short. With it, I’ve been able to develop web software on Windows with the Linux environment familiar to me.

One of my recent projects involved having a cash register print receipts to a thermal printer. In order to do this, we had a Sinatra server running on boot on the device that would, upon receiving a POST request, print out the ESC/POS data.

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. This involved getting it ready for newer versions of iOS and their recent requirements on the app store, as well as Android’s 64-bit app requirement.

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. This is the story of how I managed to do so without compromising the integrity of the tests.

What a start to the year! Let me set the stage: I’m in the process of building a cash register / point of sale system, which uses Vue.js and Vuex.

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. It’s been a great opportunity to contribute to a project at the same time as learning a completely new language.

Ok, so this one had me stuck for ages, and I thought I’d share what went wrong. I was trying to save strings into YAML, something like the following:

Welcome! If you’re here, you’d like to learn to make Rails web apps. I’d love to take you through making the quintessential “To-do” list.

I ran into a lot of trouble getting this set up! Finally, everything fell into place.

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! One of my contract projects at the moment is to write an OS X app using RubyMotion.

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.

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: