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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...