./mach pancakes! && ./mach climb-big-hill

One of the big perks that comes with an Outreachy internship is a conference travel stipend for participants to attend a relevant event either during or in the year following their internship period. When I started investigating my options, I stumbled across ScotlandJS early on and knew almost immediately that I had hit the jackpot.…

New Motto: Perfect is the Enemy of Good

  My week-three lesson turned out to be “never be afraid to change your mind.” To recap: After overzealous research on a Friday into the “perfect” tools 🙄 to build my next-bug application, I decided to use a MEVN stack. However, upon sitting down at my desk the following Monday and firing up MDN Web…

Time Flies When You’re Landing Code

Disclaimer: I'm a writer, but I find blogging very uncomfortable. I'm terrible at keeping a journal. This might get weird. Or be super boring. Or both. Bear with me. Two weeks into my Outreachy internship with Mozilla, and I can’t believe how quickly each day passes! I’m happy to be working with the Web Compatibility…

OUTREACHY: Why (REASONS!) & How To

Are you a trying to figure out how to get your feet wet in tech building something other than class projects or toy tutorial apps? Are you reluctant or unable to participate in a traditional tech internship program? Are you interested in open source, but intimidated by all the established contributors you see blithely sending…