Tiffany White talks with Dave Rael about community, writing, emotional darkness, the appeal of software, supportive organizations, and being lit up
Tiffany White is an apprentice software developer at The Practical Dev. She has been programming as an autodidact and university student for three years. She attended the University of Pittsburgh for two years after a stint in a few junior colleges in Pennsylvania. Her toolbox contains JavaScript, React, Ruby, Rails, and CSS Grid and Flexbox. She is also learning Angular and Swift on the side. Besides programming and writing for her blog, she enjoys photography, lifting weights when she can, and learning about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and programming in Go.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Tiffany White
- - Tiffany's relationship with writing
- - Escaping darkness
- - Tiffany's motivations to switching major to computer science
- - Tiffany's position with The Practical Dev
- - The things that "light Tiffany up"
- - Tiffany's approach to learning to write software
- - Tiffany, the podcaster
- - Tiffany's career desires and organizational values
- - Tiffany's story of faliure - falling short on a large school project and the emotional fallout
- - Tiffany's inclination to take action
- - Tiffany's book recommendation
- - Tiffany's success story - Overcoming obstacles to become a software developers
- - Tiffany's top 3 tips for delivering more value
Resources:
Tiffany's book recommendation:
Tiffany's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Listen
- Start a blog
- Share what you know