Sylwia Vargas

I teach React, Redux, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails at Flatiron School | I care about web accessible and inclusive tech | she/her

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Feb 21

Why do you love Ruby, actually? An ode.

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Feb 1

Cheatsheet: JS loops (forEach, for/in, for/of)

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Nov 16 '20

5 ways to refactor if/else statements in JS functions

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Jul 8 '20

Arrow functions: a walkthrough and gotchas

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Dec 1 '19

37 App Ideas for Bootcamp Students & Code Newbies

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Apr 16

Tech Talk: 'Debugging: Techniques for Uncertain Times' (RailsConf 2021)

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Advice Needed ➡️ Rails+React/Next.js: how to store code blocks so formatting persists?

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Jun 7

How Potty Training Shaped My Tech Teaching Style

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Jun 5

Big-O Notation from a Non-CS Perspective

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Jun 2

List: questions to ask during a job interview

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May 3

🚧 The Einstellung Effect 🚧

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Apr 21

Talk Notes: "Secrets of Successful Mentors" (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 16

Talk Notes: "Self-Care on Rails" (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 15

Why do you love Ruby, actually? An ode.

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Apr 15

Talk Notes: "Growing Software From Seed" (railsConf 2021)

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Apr 15

Tech Talks: "A Day in the Life of a Ruby Object" (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 15

Talk Notes: 'The Rising Storm of Ethics in Open Source' (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 14

Talk Notes: "Secrets of Successful Mentors" (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 14

Talk Notes: "Implicit to Explicit: Decoding Ruby's Magical Syntax" (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 14

Talk Notes: 'Talmudic Gems For Rails Developers' (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 14

Talk Notes: "Designing APIs: Less Data is More" (RailsFonc 2021)

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Apr 13

Talk Notes: "Self-Care on Rails" (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 13

Talk Notes: "'Junior' Devs are the Solution to Many of Your Problems" (RailsConf 2021)

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Apr 13

Tech Notes: "Accessibility is a Requirement" (RailsConf 2021)

#techtalks #a11y #rails

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Apr 2

List: questions to ask during a job interview

#discuss #career #womenintech #codenewbie

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Mar 31

Talk Notes: "Fight, Flight, or Freeze - Releasing Organizational Trauma" by Matt Stratton

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Mar 29

Talk Notes: "DocOps: engineering great documentation" by Adam Butler

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Mar 26

Resigning with grace

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Mar 9

SheCoded: A year of silence and reflection

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Nov 21 '20

Shell tools and scripting — missing semester notes

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Nov 20 '20

The shell - missing semester notes

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Nov 20 '20

Mnemonics: declarative vs imperative programming

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Oct 15 '20

I hit ⚡️ 15k ⚡️ commits through Open Source contributions and it broke Github.

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Jul 9 '20

Arrow Functions: practice quiz on transformations

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Jun 29 '20

ShowDev: COVID-19 Feminist Response site hit 12k visitors ✨ 🥳 🎉

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Jun 18 '20

Show Dev: tutorial for ScrapingBee thanks to Dev! 🥳 🥳 🥳

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May 24 '20

Stay tuned: tech newsletters, slack groups and folks I follow and cherish dearly

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May 13 '20

Freelancers: are you using liability insurance? Which one?

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May 11 '20

List: LinkedIn Skills

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May 8 '20

Recipe for a good readme

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May 6 '20

What are the misconceptions of non-tech folks when working with devs on web projects?

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May 2 '20

Rails Backend: Initializing an instance with a default value

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Apr 20 '20

Checklist: 56 guiding questions about web accessibility

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Apr 15 '20

CS Trivia#8: What is & nbsp; ?!

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Apr 12 '20

ShowDev: Covid19 Risk Calculator hit 1,1k visitors ✨ 🥳 🎉

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Apr 12 '20

Rails Backend: Slug Endpoints

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Apr 11 '20

Rails Backend: Custom Validations

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Apr 6 '20

Recipe for Rails Backend

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Apr 5 '20

React Bootstrap on mobile: confusing focus styling

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Mar 30 '20

Which ERB tag should I use?

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Mar 30 '20

How to properly close a port?

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Mar 27 '20

Github collaboration: does it matter where the GitHub repo lives?

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Mar 23 '20

CS Trivia#7: Why is SQL shouting at me?

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Mar 17 '20

CS Trivia#6: Where did the spaceship operator come from?

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Mar 13 '20

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ruby Variables

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Mar 8 '20

My action steps to be bold and brave in tech as a woman

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Mar 2 '20

Trivia#5: The first word sent over the internet

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Feb 28 '20

Trivia #4: Who invented copy+paste?

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Feb 18 '20

Trivia #3: What is the history of "hello world"?

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Feb 10 '20

Trivia #2: Where did the word "debugging" come from?

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Feb 4 '20

Trivia #1: Who cursed us with 'foo bar'?

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Dec 21 '19

Refactoring my Rails Project

#refactorit #rails #codenewbie #shecoded

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