JavaScript+Coffee

A short one, as typing is very tricky at the moment! I'm going to try to amalgamate what 2 specialists have said to me, one yesterday and one 15+ years ago. I have written before about the haemorrhages I had in the past, caused by ' cavernomas ' in my brain. Cavernomas are essentially little clusters of veins that can bleed.  Most people have them and if they were in your skin they would appear as little blemishes. I happen to have them in my brain! I guess I was born with these in my brain, although they have never been picked up before on any MRI or CT scan. I had one that bled three times when I was younger that caused my disability and I had 2 operations to remove.  2 weeks ago, I started to experience extreme tiredness (which I put down to coding) and trouble speaking and typing (which I put down to stress). I've spent the best part of a week in hospital and have had numerous scans on my head. I'm sure I glow with radiation now! It seems that I have had anot

  Honestly, I wasn't sure whether to write tonight, but I felt like I had something in my head that had to come out somewhere! I am on the way to 3000 followers on twitter, which is preposterous considering I've been on the platform for less than 2 months... People do ask me 'how', and I cover that topic in another post - How did you do that?  but essentially, I still don't really know. My LinkedIn has also felt the benefit, and I am connecting and interacting with so many incredible people every day. I haven't partaken in any sort of course, nor am I part of any secret club! I love speaking and interacting and laughing with all of you - I often talk about the importance of mental health and taking breaks - 'my DMs are open' means just that - you can message me and I will do my very best to reply. Just try to say something a little more meaningful than 'hi'! So alongside all of the incredible interactions and laughs that we have - we also support

I joined twitter in mid June this year at around the same time that I started my journey into coding. I have had a twitter account before, but I wasn't very active - more of a 'lurker' (just there to look at other people's content!) I posted rarely, and not about anything in particular. Sometimes I engaged with other equestrians regarding a question that I wanted answering. I think I followed a few hundred people and had about 38 followers on that account at its peak.  On my account, JavaScript+Coffee ( @JavascriptCoff1 ), I currently about 2180 followers and am following around 400 people, 2 months after setting up the account. People have started to ask me how I am growing my twitter following so quickly. My first reaction to this was 'I don't know!', but as more people are now asking, I have sat down and had a proper think about it.  I am aware of some courses or resources that people promote, but I have never read anything about how to do 'it', w

I started out on the journey of learning to code on 18 June 2020. That morning, I woke up, checked my phone and saw a post on LinkedIn. It was written by someone I didn't know, an ex-Uber driver, and they simply expressed how glad they were that they'd learned to code. I declared to my husband then and there that I was going to learn to code. He just looked back at me sleepily. I have since found out that, by utter coincidence, the ex-Uber driver is in fact Nat Sharpe, a software engineer who's wife, Martha Sharpe, I own the book of and met within the Twitter community. I had been made redundant from my job as an Executive Assistant to the CEO of a FinTech startup due to the pandemic and I was feeling a little lost, spending all my time walking and running and just generally feeling like I should  be doing something - but I just didn't know  what. I had exactly no knowledge of coding, bar a little dabble in VBA in my previous job - again, I had mostly taught myself. I h

The housing market and economy currently holds London as it’s price bubble, having almost doubled in the past 10 years after the 2008-09 recession. Current conditions in the midst of a global pandemic mean that companies and employers are reconsidering the benefits of holding physical property and office space in London as the world, seemingly led by Twitter and other large technology organisations, turns to remote working and virtual office space. What does this mean for the housing market, particularly in London? Caused by a credit crisis and led by necessary but destructive bailouts to banks, the most recent recession in 2008-09 caused a drop in all sectors, the property market included. The market bounced back, gaining on average 3% per year and putting the average London house price at £619,303 in 2017. Prices in Central London continue to inflate, with prices more often than not in their millions for a flat. Rightmove.com details ‘Last year most property sales in London involved

Everyone has a past, a background. How do you feel about yours? Sometimes my background creeps into my conscious thoughts when I least expect it, and anxieties that I thought I’d conquered re-emerge. Like if I need to use a keyboard extension that needs two hands to utilise. Or if I’m trying to complete a task that requires an element of maths or mathematical logic. Does that ever happen to you? Obviously your circumstances and past would be different, and other random, seemingly innocent things might bring up a long suppressed rage or anxiety in you… When I was young, I had three bleeds in my brain, close to my brain stem, essentially strokes. In that respect, I am incredibly lucky to not have been affected more, or even killed. I had brain surgery for the last two. I remember being ‘able’, before the bleeds, I was eight, nine and eleven when they happened, and they were all random and unexpected. After each one, I was left completely paralysed without movement on the left hand side o