While listening to a book, I noticed a strange series of syllables that I simply could not comprehend. I took the phone from my pocket, stared at the text, and replayed it. Turns out the word “environments” is mispronounced as enviRONments, with an odd stress pattern and an “i” sound kinda like the “ea” in “ear.” I got curious about repro steps so I wrote “environment” and “environments” in a note and played it with VoiceOver....
Loren Wang and I were Opportunity Scholars at the 2015 RubyConf in San Antonio, Texas last week. It was four days of meeting incredible and inspiring programmers within the community! Fellow scholar Shana Moore authored several blog posts about her day-by-day experiences at RubyConf and the scholarship application process, if you’re interested in becoming a scholar next year! Bella Woo also chronicled her experiences, which include meeting other scholars via Twitter to make lodging arrangements....
Scribbles. Loose scribbles. That’s really all my brain can process at the moment. I don’t think I can adequately organize my thoughts on my early Ada Developers Academy days into a very coherent blog post. So far, I’m absolutely loving my experience. I placed my hands on a keyboard, started coding, looked up, and hey! A week went flying by! Time travel is real. It’s difficult to focus on anything else, because it feels like a large portion of my brain’s processing power is always chewing on something code-related in the background....