Susanna Codes

I'm Fighting  I'm not one to post many pictures of myself, but here is one from my office floor a couple of months ago.  I'm writing a more technical blog post at the moment but I've been writing that one for the last couple of days and this came up and it was URGENT and I wanted to write that down. We Had A Team Meeting Today We had a team meeting today where we gave each other constructive feedback and it was SO NICE. I was so afraid for it but it was SO AMAZING. I was honestly panicking, hyperventilating, everything before the meeting.  But it was so fine. It was absolutely fine.  I loved it. The Most Useful Piece of Feedback That I Heard Right, let's get down to it. What's the most useful piece of feedback I heard?  Well, it was also the most heart-warming one! But it was also the most constructive.  "I think you could be even more effective by being really selective with your time.  Make sure that you are always prioritising the things that will h...

Do My Words Run Dry I thought that my blog had been hacked! But it turns out that there was just some secret evil filter plugin on my MacBook - maybe from the previous owner or maybe someone at work had installed it as a prank or something.  Either way - I'm glad it's over! I was scared that Susanna Codes was over. But not today! This blog post title references 'Words' by Bayonne again. I love that song.  I wasn't kidding when I said it was one of my favourite songs of all time, ever! Bayonne concert poster. Btw I have been listening to a lot a lot of Halcyon and On and On by Orbital. I realise it was used at the ending of Mean Girls, one of my favourite movies of all time! This song has the ultimate Happy Ending vibes. And right now I need my happy ending.  Trust me right now where I feel that I'm at in my life right now - I feel like I need my happy ending. So long may it be! And let it be with Halcyon and On and On... Iterator Methods .some() I have made a Co...

Candles, Part II I am still obsessed with the song Candles by Jon Hopkins.  In fact, I am looping it on repeat constantly.  I don't like the album artwork very much. So here's a beautiful image of some colours from one of my CodePens! I am missing home by the way.  I am missing Luxembourg.  I miss the woods, I miss the forests. I miss the woods and I miss the forests. I am missing the woods and I miss the forests. But the power of those places is with me a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y every day - it is with me as I do my coding - it is with me while I fulfil my passion and destiny by becoming a software engineer. Loops While Loops  Codecademy Practice On cards and spades - here we go!!!  Continuing with Iterators .map() A Practice Example I Made Up For My Updates Doc Numbers Multiplied by a million!  .findIndex()  Another Practice Exercise For My Updates Doc Here's a little example I made up - with Girls' Names .filter() Here's a cute little example I made ...

Halcyon and On and On Today's song of the day has definitely been Halcyon and On and On by Orbital. ( n.b. I wrote this all yesterday and then fell asleep so I am posting the next morning lol ). Today's hero of the day has definitely been my boss as I continue to use and feel amazingly empowered and supported by his technique of putting everything onto CodePen and writing up a detailed explanation of it.  So here it goes. Continuing Revising Loops Looping Through Arrays  Vacation Spots Here's just a tiny little exercise I did for my Codecademy course -  Looping through Arrays with Vacation Spots Practice Exercise Just to be sure of these: I did another little extra exercise on looping through arrays - look how cute! Looping through Arrays with Space Objects Nested Loops Mutual Followers - Codecademy Exercise  I went through the old exercise on pushing mutual followers to an array via nested loops again.  Here it is.  I remember getting stuck on this one qui...

Just Hold On, We're Going Home I have fallen in love with a song. It's called Hold On, We're Going Home and it's by Drake ft. Majid Jordan. But it's the Nick Mulvey version that I'm obsessed with.  It's got to be the Nick Mulvey version, I'm afraid. Album artwork from the recording session - A man wearing headphones and playing the guitar This song just gives me such a great big feeling of safety.  It really does make me feel like I'm safe and it's all over. I really do get the feeling of being brought home and of being taken care of and of being cared for by someone while listening to this song. It's beautiful. It's just beautiful. I can't wait to listen to more of it. P.S. I have recently rediscovered one of my old favourite songs, Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, and I definitely need to name my next blog post after that. If I don't name my next blog post Radioactive, then I am in Big Trouble with myself. And please tell me off....

Candles Candles, by John Hopkins, is a song from my beloved Coding Mode playlist on Spotify. It is from the soundtrack of the 90's sci-fi TV show Monsters. The album artwork is a bit scary so have a beautiful picture that I found representing 'big numbers' instead. The song is really beautiful though and is what made me fall in love with this playlist straight away initially. Coding Mode Remember that list of CodePens I made yesterday? Yeah, I wasn't actually done. So since I wanted it amalgamated in one place all together then I'm going to copy and paste all of the relevant bits over from yesterday, and then add more. (It's my blog... I can do what I want on it). Here: .forEach()  and Anonymous Functions  No.1: Array of Teas Tea Flavours  No.2: Array of Fruits  Fruits Array This was just a little quick exercise I did in Codecademy.  .map() No.1 Animals and Secret Message Secret message made of animal names No. 2 Big Numbers and Small Numbers .map()  and bi...

Coding Mode "Dedicated to all the programmers out there." - Spotify 😭😭🔮🔮💚💚👽👾👾💚💜 I have found the most beautiful playlist in the world. It is called Coding Mode. I haven't been able to stop welling up with tears every time I think about it. It is so perfect. It is the most beautiful thing in the world. It just feels like it is so perfect for me. It represents everything I love about coding.  The magic.  The technology. The inspiration. The futuristic-ness. The high tech. The space age. The zen. I will write to them after work today and tell them this. And maybe I will send them this blog post as well. I have been looking for a second tattoo as well. Coding mode would be a good one - but let me sleep on it as always. EVERYTHING IS PERFECT. RIGHT DOWN TO THE GREEN. "DEDICATED TO ALL THE PROGRAMMERS OUT THERE".  I LOVE YOU SPOTIFY TOO 💚💚💚💚💚👽💚 .forEach() and Anonymous Functions  No.1: Array of Teas Tea Flavours  The CodePen says it all really....

HEART IS OPEN "If you're ready, heart is open,  I'll be waiting, come and find me.  If you're searching, for forever, I'll be waiting, come and find me."   - Find Me, Sigma ft. Birdy My heart is open. My heart is open.  My heart is open. I am so ready. I am so ready to be on this journey. I am so ready and willing to be on this journey. Thank you. I am so grateful. I am so grateful. Thank you.  I am so grateful, grateful for everything. What have I been coding yesterday? Notice that I said yesterday. Today has been all about review. Today has been mad. Today has been... ... all about doing everything that I didn't have time to do yesterday. Okay, so.... The coding?!? I coded up a project on the Arsenal Women's Football Team - using Objects, Getters, Setters and Functions.  I BUILT A STATIC WEBSITE ON BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN! !! As part of our fortnightly learning and innovation day.  And I love it!!!  I started learning about ITERATORS.  The first...

 Fallss Fallss by Bayonne - Album Artwork Falls is another song by Bayonne. I am OBSESSED with Bayonne.  I have never loved another artist so so much - bearing in mind that I've known him for a week or less. I can just play any of his songs from Spotify on shuffle and I LOVE THEM ALL - it's been years since I've been able to do that with any other artist! How am I doing? I rarely stop to ask myself this. But today I feel angry and I don't know why.  Maybe it's just from being so tired. We pulled off an office move yesterday and it was hardcore. But then I had to go home and sort out some urgent stuff in my flat. But you can't get angry just from being tired. But maybe I am angered by how hard it is sometimes.  Maybe I'm angry at how many distractions I have to deal with. As I have very very severe ADHD, I have to deal with the fact that everything that comes up feels urgent. I battle with the fact that every detail ever seems important. I deserve better than...

Words I have never loved a song as much as I love "Words" by Bayonne.  I just never want it to end. I fall asleep to it and I want to listen to it when I wake up. I listen to it before and after showers, before and after breathwork. I just never want it end. Kind of like how I feel about software engineering actually.  I just love this song so much.  It reminds me of the good things in life. The things I love.  Summer. Software Engineering. Good vibes. That's it. Most of all. I just love good vibes. Happiness. Just being happy for happiness' sake. Try it. It will change your whole life. Be happy first - then the rest of your life will follow. Setter Methods Setter methods are like getter methods in many ways. but they allow you to reassign the value of an existing property within an Object.  A NEW WAY OF LEARNING My Engineering Manager has been an absolute hero today and has helped me out SOOO MUCH. I wasn't feeling like I was making enough progress. So I asked ...