Sylwia Vargas

I'm a tech writer and educator advocating for code newbies ✨ I'm also a Developer Relations Lead + front-end dev at @stackblitz and a contributor to the new React docs

New York Joined on Nov 30, 2019

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JavaScript, React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Redux

Always happy to chat about accessibility, open source and social justice. Also, about community building.

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Oct 13 '22

What is pnpm? Is it really so fast and space-efficient?

#webdev #beginners #tooling #javascript

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Feb 21 '21

Why do you love Ruby, actually? An ode.

#discuss #ruby #rails #codenewbie

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Nov 16 '20

5 ways to refactor if/else statements in JS functions

#webdev #javascript #codenewbie #react

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Jul 8 '20

Arrow functions: a walkthrough and gotchas

#javascript #beginners #tutorial #webdev

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Dec 1 '19

37 App Ideas for Bootcamp Students & Code Newbies

#beginners #javascript #webdev #react

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Oct 12 '22

Hacktoberfest: docs updates in three steps

#beginners #writing #hacktoberfest #codenewbie

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Oct 11 '22

One-click treat for Open Source maintainers

#hacktoberfest #opensource #tooling #javascript

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Oct 9 '22

Explain like I’m five: package managers

#beginners #javascript #webdev #tooling

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Oct 6 '22

StackBlitz Monthly Update Post: September 2022

#news #webdev #wordpress #opensource

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May 23 '22

Tech Talk: 'Unit Test the Docs: Why You Should Test Your Code Examples' (Write the Docs 2022)

#writing

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May 23 '22

Talk Talk: 'One AWS team’s move to docs as code: what worked, what didn’t, what’s next' (Write the Docs 2022)

#writing

2 min read

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May 16 '22

What do you look for on a team page?

#discuss #career #startup

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Mar 9 '22

Peaceful coexistence

#shecoded #beginners #career

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Apr 16 '21

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

#techtalks

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Apr 15 '21

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

#techtalks

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Apr 15 '21

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

#techtalks #rails

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Apr 15 '21

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

#techtalks #opensource

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Apr 14 '21

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

#techtalks #career

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Apr 14 '21

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

#techtalks #rails

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Apr 14 '21

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

#techtalks #rails #watercooler

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Apr 14 '21

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

#techtalks #rails

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Apr 13 '21

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

#techtalks #rails

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Apr 13 '21

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

#techtalks

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Apr 13 '21

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

#techtalks #a11y #rails

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Apr 2 '21

List: questions to ask during a job interview

#discuss #career #womenintech #codenewbie

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Mar 31 '21

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

#techtalks

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Mar 29 '21

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

#techtalks

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Mar 26 '21

Resigning with grace

#discuss #productivity #career

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Mar 9 '21

SheCoded: A year of silence and reflection

#shecoded

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Feb 1 '21

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

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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

#todayilearned #beginners #computerscience #programming

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Nov 20 '20

Mnemonics: declarative vs imperative programming

#javascript #beginners #react #computerscience

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Oct 15 '20

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

#github #hacktoberfest #codenewbie #opensource

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Jul 9 '20

Arrow Functions: practice quiz on transformations

#webdev #javascript #beginners #codenewbie

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Jun 29 '20

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

#showdev #react #womenintech #webdev

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Jun 18 '20

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

#showdev #ruby #tutorial #codenewbie

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May 24 '20

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

#codenewbie #beginners #webdev #gratitude

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May 13 '20

Freelancers: are you using liability insurance? Which one?

#discuss #help #webdev

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May 11 '20

List: LinkedIn Skills

#watercooler #codenewbie #webdev #beginners

1 min read

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May 8 '20

Recipe for a good readme

#codenewbie #beginners #writing #webdev

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May 6 '20

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

#discuss #watercooler #webdev #react

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May 2 '20

Rails Backend: Initializing an instance with a default value

#rails

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Apr 20 '20

Checklist: 56 guiding questions about web accessibility

#a11y #webdev #codenewbie #inclusion

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Apr 15 '20

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

#todayilearned #html #webdev #codenewbie

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Apr 12 '20

ShowDev: Covid19 Risk Calculator hit 1,1k visitors

#showdev #webdev #react #womenintech

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Apr 12 '20

Rails Backend: Slug Endpoints

#rails #webdev #tutorial

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Apr 11 '20

Rails Backend: Custom Validations

#rails #beginners

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Apr 6 '20

Recipe for Rails Backend

#rails #beginners #tutorial

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Apr 5 '20

React Bootstrap on mobile: confusing focus styling

#help #css #react

1 min read

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Mar 30 '20

Which ERB tag should I use?

#ruby #rails #beginners #codenewbie

2 min read

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Mar 30 '20

How to properly close a port?

#beginners #codenewbie #todayisearched

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Mar 27 '20

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

#discuss

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Mar 23 '20

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

#watercooler #sql #computerscience #todayilearned

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Mar 17 '20

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

#todayilearned #ruby #computerscience #codenewbie

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Mar 13 '20

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ruby Variables

#ruby #codenewbie #beginners

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Mar 8 '20

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

#shecoded

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Mar 2 '20

Trivia#5: The first word sent over the internet

#watercooler #todayilearned #codenewbie #computerscience

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Feb 28 '20

Trivia #4: Who invented copy+paste?

#watercooler #todayilearned #codenewbie #computerscience

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Feb 18 '20

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

#watercooler #todayilearned #codenewbie #computerscience

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Feb 10 '20

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

#watercooler #codenewbie #computerscience

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Feb 4 '20

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

#watercooler #codenewbie #computerscience #todayilearned

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Dec 21 '19

Refactoring my Rails Project

#refactorit #rails #codenewbie #shecoded

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