Here is Indira reading her own story aloud. My background is in Quality Assurance: testing features, observing behaviour, and making sure things work as expected. For a long time, I believed open source contribution mostly meant writing code. Since I wasn’t a developer, I saw myself more as someone learning from the community than contributing […]
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Don’t Use Elaborate Task Management Systems
At this point in my career, I’ve been working remotely more than I have ever been in an office. I don’t ever want to have to return into an office unless it’s absolutely necessary. Part of working like this, though, is maintaining a sense of self-discipline for the backlog of tasks required for work and […]
Continue readingDon’t Over-Architect Your Blog Posts
At some point, I lost the motivation to write about anything that would include too much code because of the amount of time it would take to: put a functioning solution together, architect it in such a way that’d fit with best practices (at least for OOP), explain the various features about OOP that the […]
Continue readingYou Don’t Have To Want What Everyone Else Wants
I launched a WordPress-based business sometime around 2013. Starting a business is a goal for a lot of people, but it was never something I intentionally set out to do. I was in university at the time and blogging about books — just doing something I loved. But then I had an idea for a […]
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