let internship =

It’s here – the last week of the Outreachy internship. It’s been a blast! I learned so many new things: protocols for dependency injection and mocking the agile sprint cycle in practice unit testing in Xcode refactoring from MVC to MVVM passing data around with completion blocks the importance of avoiding force unwraps, strong references,

let career =

I want to leave a positive mark on the world. I’d like to have a job where I’m continually learning and challenged by my work. For now, remote work is a must, considering COVID. In the before times, finding remote work without having connections as a junior developer was pretty difficult… I’m not sure how

let expectations =

Apologies for the late blog post – my timeline was a little unclear until my mentor and I spoke about it today. Originally, I was planning on writing all features written in the project proposal. The core functionality of my project is to alert a user of any breached login information as according to Firefox

let laymansTerms =

I’m working on the Logins & Passwords screen of the Firefox iPhone App. I’m making it more helpful – it will tell you if your passwords have been exposed on the internet and are no longer safe to use. It’s basically adding Firefox Monitor functionality into the app itself, so you don’t have to go

let roadblock =

I’ve never converted a bloated view controller into view models before. Going from MVC to MVVM is something completely new to me. To get unstuck, I: Researched the topic at hand. Most of the articles and tutorials I found were simple cases compared to the project at hand, but it’s best to understand and study

var coreValues = InnerHarmony

I value inner harmony. Honestly, it sounds like a pretty cheesy term, but hear me out – I think people should consider their internal function more often. What makes you work as a person? I believe the cogs in a person’s behavior revolve around mental health, physical health and the things in your life that

let applying =

The actual application process for Outreachy was quite simple – 1) answer some essay questions about your experience with under-representation, systemic bias, or discrimination during your journey to the technology industry, 2) choose a project, and 3) contribute to the open-source software you’re interested in. I suppose I’ll break down what I did under those

let intro =

I’m Vanna, just someone actively avoiding their quarter-life crisis while living in Southern California. I don’t usually broadcast myself to the world; on any given day, I’d prefer to journal my thoughts. But today, I’m leaping outside of my comfort zone thanks to the Outreachy Summer 2020 program. I intend to post about my growth