Anna Wijetunga articles - 29 total
That First Ticket
Originally posted with aware3 in 2020. Reposting now for posterity :) Life in any new job can mean a...
An Engineering Management Philosophy (i.e. How We Got Sh*t Done)
You know when something just works? And you don't want to mess with a good thing? Yup, been there....
Debuggin' Test Output
An Explanation Tests are slippery things. Because code is constantly being updated, a test that passe...
That First Ticket
Life in any new job can mean a lot of on-the-spot learning, questions, and stumbling. As a former...
Keep the Marathon Going
I'm a runner, and I run marathons. It's a crazy thing to run 26.2 miles, but boy, do I enjoy it. I w...
What We Give
My cohort mates and I graduated from Flatiron in April. Such good eggs, they are. A handful of those...
OAuth & Heroku Play Nice
Hosting my Rails app on Heroku was A Lot. But that story ended in success! And yet, when I tried to...
The Git Pull Guide
GitHub is powerful and often magical. But learning the ins and outs has been stressful. Recently my...
Unexpected Kindness
Ever been on the receiving end of unexpected kindness? Then you know it's worth talking about! I'm a...
That Second Interview
All Flatiron grads are quite kindly gifted a free mock technical interview with a rep at Skilled. T...
JavaScript Closures
Like learning any new language, your knowledge can drip away when your focus shifts. My focus did in...
Power of the Journey
Before we dig in. 2020 has meant: Australian Bushfires COVID-19 Black Lives Matter That's not exha...
JavaScript App from Scratch
A senior (and very kind) software engineer wisely told me, "Just because you learned something once...
Valid Parentheses
I completed a technical interview this week and received specific feedback: "Get faster."...
The Interview
I don't typically tout failing as a gift, and yet. I guess we all break our own rules sometimes. A...
Imposter Syndrome: That Same Old Song
Imposter syndrome. They say it's real and that everyone feels it, so don't dwell. Keep moving forwa...
My Coding "Why"
Ever since the tender age of five, my dream was to become a teacher, assign homework and bake cookies...
Take a Ten Minute Walk (JavaScript)
My 8-hour coding days at Flatiron are a thing of the past (quietly sobbing, brb), but, as with learni...
Create a Phone Number
With the intense pacing and curriculum of bootcamp over, it's time to tackle daily coding challenges...
React/Redux Project
Thank you for being here! Evergoal was built using a Rails API back end, which the front end, built...
JavaScript Project
Thank you for being here! Originally publish in March of 2020! This project is a single page applica...
Mental Models
Originally posted in February of 2020! After three months of Ruby, JavaScript hit me like a brick wa...
Rails Project
Thank you for being here! Originally from February 2020, here she is now in all her glory. This proj...
Rails App From Scratch
Originally posted January 2020, but here it is now! What they say is true - Ruby on Rails is powerfu...
Sinatra Project
Thank you for being here! First posted in January 2020, bringing it here to keep my other posts compa...
MVC and Sinatra
Another relic from the past - from December 2019 to the here and now, enjoy. Digging into Sinatra ha...
CLI Project
Going through Flatiron's bootcamp allowed me time to create my own projects. Not wanting to lose this...
Anna from November 2019
Believe you me, I'd much rather bury this one, but for nostalgia, I present to you, my original post...
Kick Off: Beyond Bootcamp
Flatiron's software engineering bootcamp was a hoot, but word on the street is, it's just the beginni...