One of my nicest experiences of the past year has been revisiting favourite books and enjoying a new perspective, now my world has shifted. I first read the late, great Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall in the first flush of its popularity after its release in 2009: I was a literature PhD student on a long, […]
“Pseudocode is a step-by-step description of an algorithm written in simple English using a code-like structure. It is designed for human understanding, not for machine execution, and does not follow the syntax of any programming language.” (Good old GeeksForGeeks.com) What might it have looked like if I had pseudocoded my career change journey before it
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Books, Career, ProgrammingI’m in a super inspiring Cajigo 100 Women in Tech Power Hour meeting right now and listening to the very inspiring Jeniffer Ramnath talk about her career journey to being a Technology and Transformation Executive. I’m especially struck by her account of learning ‘on the job’ in many roles; this resonates a LOT with me
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Cajigo, General, learningOn this last day of 2025, the year I moved into tech, I’m thinking intently about the experience of being a human amongst all this new technical knowledge. The tech landscape and the facets of that that matter most to me – data, responsibility, safety – are as dynamic and urgent as I suspected they
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Books, General, ProjectsMy new home office is nearly set up! I haven’t had my own room to work in since I was a student and the memories that it’s bringing back have got me thinking about how I think. My personality and passions are becoming externalised again: in Legos, pretty rocks, collectible figures and other knick-knacks put
A Room of Ones Own/Clean Code: Bookish thoughts about workspace, effort and craft. Read More »
Books, GeneralWhen I first registered this domain name in March this year, I had left my previous job as a university academic less than 2 months earlier and I was days away from starting my Northcoders bootcamp in Data Engineering. This was a huge change on a number of fronts. I’d been an academic, a lecturer
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GeneralIf you’re reading this, it’s because I remembered to delete all the ‘testing, testing’ posts before launching my site. Yay. I’m Leanne, and I am many things – an avid reader, an author, a former teacher and academic, a mother, and currently a freelance software developer/engineer. I’ve spent the last year learning to be a