Paul Jacobson

Tag: coding

  • The missing piece in my Python scripts

    The missing piece in my Python scripts

    My quest to automate parts of my workflows usually involves writing Python scripts to streamline some of my tasks as a Happiness Engineer. One output has confused me for far longer than it should have, and I was shown the light today (in the form of a pretty simple solution). My dilemma Many of my […]

  • Creating good through open source

    I really like videos like this: Open source as a way of doing things has such amazing potential to make our world so much better. Watching videos like this tend to prompt me to revisit my calendar and try find regular blocks of time I can dedicate to my dusty coding projects.

  • My idea of a good time: coding on a Linux computer

    My idea of a good time: coding on a Linux computer

    Lately my idea of fun has been firmly rooted in coding, and playing around with Linux.

  • Raising brave, imperfect daughters, and teaching them to code

    Raising brave, imperfect daughters, and teaching them to code

    Last week I came across a tweet sharing Reshma Saujani’s TED talk, titled “Teach girls bravery, not perfection”. I immediately bookmarked it to watch with my daughter (and tweeted my plan to do that).

  • An awesome thread about developers’ careers

    An awesome thread about developers’ careers

    Stephanie Hurlburt asked for stories from developers about their career paths on Twitter, and it quickly became one of the best threads I’ve read in a while.

  • Celebrating Women in Tech with the awesome #WITBragDay meme

    Celebrating Women in Tech with the awesome #WITBragDay meme

    My favourite meme at the moment is the awesome #WITBragDay meme on Twitter that celebrates women in tech. It seems to have been started by Alice Goldfuss with her tweet.