Writing
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Attending the SheCanCode hack day in partnership with Refuge
23 Apr 2025Last month I attended the International Women’s Day Power Hack run by SheCanCode. The theme of the day was improving women’s safety...
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Challenges I've faced while building Domestic Abuse Services Mapped
15 Feb 2025It’s been a hugely rewarding experience building Domestic Abuse Services Mapped. There have been challenges along the way however...
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2024 - year in review
29 Dec 2024As we come to the end of 2024 I'm looking back on my third year of working full time as a software developer
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Using LLMs as a tool when learning to code
18 Oct 2024I’ve been using ChatGPT for a year and I’ve found it’s accelerated my progress. These are my tips on how to get the best out of LLMs to help you learn to code.
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Notes from learning Typescript
25 Aug 2024Over the last few weeks I’ve been diving into learning TypeScript properly. These are my notes from that learning process.
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Building a tool to map domestic abuse services across the UK
24 Jun 2024Over the last few months I’ve been working on a tool that will map the hundreds of domestic abuse support services across the UK.
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What I've learnt from working on a large software project
14 Apr 2024For the last couple of months at Common Knowledge we have been building an application called Mapped. This post is about some of things I’ve learnt about from working on this project.
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What I've learnt from mentoring at coding meetups
12 Feb 2024I’ve recently been mentoring at two Founders and Coders meet ups and it made me think about what makes a good mentor - specifically when learning to code.
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2023 - year in review
28 Dec 2023In this post I’m going to look at what I’ve learnt; the challenges I’ve faced this year as well as what I’m hoping for in 2024