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Code Like A Girl

@codelikeagirl.bsky.social

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Welcome to Code Like A Girl, where we celebrate and champion women and non-binary individuals in technology. 🌟 Our mission: Amplify diverse voices, shatter stereotypes, and create a more inclusive tech world. 🚀

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

How I Went From Chasing AI Tools to Building AI Systems open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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How I Went From Chasing AI Tools to Building AI Systems

How to manage FOMO when AI makes everything feel possible, and build systems that bring the results you need.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

12 Lessons from A Decade in Tech open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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12 Lessons from A Decade in Tech

My journey from "one of the guys" to "one of the girls" to building a life that honors all of me!

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

From Pilots to Production: Why AI Stalls Before It Delivers open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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From Pilots to Production: Why AI Stalls Before It Delivers

Why Feasibility Isn’t the Same as Readiness

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

2025 Was the Year of AI Builders. Why Did So Many Teams Fail to Ship? open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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2025 Was the Year of AI Builders. Why Did So Many Teams Fail to Ship?

What 2025 revealed about innovation theater, broken incentives, and stalled AI initiatives

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

How to Build a Proprietary Content Engine Using Your Holiday Memories open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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How to build a proprietary content engine using your holiday memories

Using AI to translate “non‑work” memories into proprietary strategy your competitors can’t reverse‑engineer.

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You are Already Technical Enough for AI open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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You are Already Technical Enough for AI

Why relational skills are becoming the new technical skill

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We Automated Discrimination and Called it Innovation open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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We Automated Discrimination and Called it Innovation

Progressive Regression: How Automation Turns Historical Bias into the Future

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The Prompt Engineering Myth: Why ‘Talking to AI’ Isn’t Actually Communication open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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The Prompt Engineering Myth: Why ‘Talking to AI’ Isn’t Actually Communication

How conversational design disguises constraint optimisation and how linguistics explains what's really happening

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I Didn’t Plan to Start a Movement. I Just Stopped Staying Quiet. open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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I Didn’t Plan to Start a Movement. I Just Stopped Staying Quiet.

Ten years of Code Like a Girl and what happens when women stop staying quiet together

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Forget Building a Second Brain. I Just Wanted My First One Back. open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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Forget Building a Second Brain. I Just Wanted My First One Back.

Chemo saved my life, but it also stole my spark. Here’s how I reclaimed it.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

How I Became a Woman in Tech (Without Realizing It) open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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How I Became a Woman in Tech (Without Realizing It)

Why my path didn’t look like tech and why that’s exactly the point

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Curiosity doesn’t disappear in girls — it gets trained out of them. If we care about women in tech, we need to start where it actually begins: at home, in classrooms, and in everyday moments that shape confidence. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/raising-th...

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Raising the Girls Who Will Fix What We Broke

STEM starts at the kitchen table, not the boardroom.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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Why Every Founder Needs a Woman in the Ops Seat

How women bring operational intelligence, foresight, and better outcomes to startups

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Same idea. Same platform. Different gender. His post: 4,000 likes. Hers: 47 views. That’s when she realized her gender was costing her money. open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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The Day I Realized My Gender Was Costing Me Money

Choosing between authenticity and visibility in the age of AI

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

@annalevitt.bsky.social writes about leaving a role she was good at and discovering who she was without the title or the performance. This is a grounded, honest piece about identity, grief, and building from zero when the scripts disappear. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/the-first-...

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The First Time I Didn’t Perform

For years, I was a Porsche surrounded by Hondas. I made myself smaller, slower, more digestible. Then I started a company and had to stop performing.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Imposter Syndrome for Vibe Coders & The Myth of the “Real Developer” codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/imposter-s...

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Imposter Syndrome for Vibe Coders & The Myth of the “Real Developer”

A gentle smackdown for the voice telling you you’re not technical enough.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Maxine Meurer learned to code with a toddler asleep beside her. No degree. No shortcuts. Just consistency and proof of skill. Eleven months later, she was working full-time in DevOps. This piece shares the real timeline, the rejections, and the roadmap that worked. substack.com/home/post/p-...

How I Got Into Tech With a Toddler and No Degree

My journey into tech, broken down into a path you can follow today.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Five days before launch, an AI tool rewrote the work of 30 creators in Elena Calvillo’s AI Advent Calendar. Total meltdown. She still shipped. We interviewed Elena for Code Like a Girl about her experience. substack.com/home/post/p-...

How one builder rallied thirty creators, survived an AI meltdown, and shipped anyway.

A Conversation with Elena Calvillo about what it took to build the AI Advent Calendar

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Breaking: Santa is not the one fixing the toy machine. It is Mrs Claus. And that one sentence in a letter sparked Dinah's kid’s first STEM dream. New story is up, with a holiday STEM gift list for kids who need to see women building the magic. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Magic of Making Mrs. Claus an Engineer

Representation starts in the stories we give our kids

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

AI is now “guessing” kids’ ages by scanning their chats, clicks, and even their selfies. If you care about online safety, AI ethics, or just want to understand what’s happening behind the scenes, give this one a read. @itscourtneyhart.bsky.social codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/age-predic...

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Age Prediction & Your Child’s Safety in the Age of AI

New digital gatekeeping is promising to keep your child safe. We need to keep learning, asking questions, and advocating for more.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We don’t talk enough about how much your team shapes your career in tech. Not the brand name. Not the stack. The people. @stefsdevnotes.bsky.social story is a powerful reminder of why choosing the right environment matters, especially for women in tech. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/choosing-t...

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Choosing the Right Team as a Woman in Tech

The teams you join can build you up—or break you down. Here’s why choosing wisely matters.

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Three AI tools. One simple prompt. Zero images her son could recognise as home. This story isn’t just about bias in training data, it’s about erasure, power, and who gets to be “real” in AI. Read it, then run the experiment where you live. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/ai-when-it...

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AI-When it looks, it inherits; when it writes, it hesitates.

Beyond the Algorithm

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

What if the career your 10-year-old self dreamed of …isn’t the life your grown-up self actually wants? Neela’s new story is a gut-check on evolving dreams, shifting identities, and redefining success, especially for women in tech. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/so-you-ach...

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So You Achieved Everything You Wanted. Now What?

A Love Letter to Career Changes and Wisdom

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

@jenny-ouyang.bsky.social used AI to turn friction points into career power moves. Her story’s up on Code Like a Girl. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/how-i-made...

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How I Made AI My Unfair Career Advantage

How to Spot Opportunities Early and Turn Them Into Your Leverage

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Tech bros: “vibe coding is dead.” Women: still building. Christine Olukere's piece explains it perfectly. Vibe coding didn’t die, the hype did. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/why-women-...

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Why Women Are the Real Vibe Coders Now

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The “Frankenstein” Known As Vibe Coding

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Are you a vibecoder? If so, you aren’t going to want to miss this detailed guide filled with everything you need to build and launch AI Products. It’s written by the vibecoding experts @productsattitude.bsky.social and Karen Spinner. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Vibecoding Tips: The Ultimate Collection

Go Beyond the Prototype: Everything You Need To Build and Launch AI Products

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It worked perfectly on her laptop. Then real users showed up. 😅 Memory leaks. Slow responses. Voice pitch complaints. Every bug became a lesson. @ds-claudia.bsky.social gives us all the details in her latest post. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/the-messy-...

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The Messy Reality of AI Products After Launch

Early traction isn’t about traffic. It’s about signals.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Have a little fun this Halloween and create a spooky text adventure in Python! Eliza has a full guide for you! Happy Halloween! codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/creating-a...

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Creating a Halloween Text Adventure in Python

Turn your Python code into a haunted tale where every choice changes the ending.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Are we burning out faster—with better tools? @kimdoyal.bsky.social says: “If AI gives us the ability to do more, we think we should do more.” Maybe it’s time to build slower, deeper, and more human. Read: codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/what-if-we...

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What if We're Using AI All Wrong?

Have we traded manual exhaustion for AI-assisted exhaustion? It’s time for a new approach.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Authoritarianism creeps quietly and women pay first. Michelle Redfern’s new story on Code Like a Girl hits hard: DEI frozen, equity silenced, rights rolled back. But she also shows how we fight back through courage, protection, and persistence at every level. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Fascism Creeps In. Women Pay First. Here’s What Every Human Must Do.

The rollback of women’s rights was the canary in the coal mine. The question is, what will you do?

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The Magic of Side Quests — how small, playful projects can reignite your creativity and transform your career. Check out this awesome story by @katrinawatson.com codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/the-magic-... What’s your current side quest?

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The Magic of Side Quests

Why small, playful projects can reignite your creativity and transform your career

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Hard skills open the door. Emotional intelligence keeps you in the room. Colette Molteni’s latest on Code Like A Girl is a reminder that EQ isn’t soft, it’s essential. The real career killer? Ignoring your human skills. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Unexpected Career Killer: Lack of Emotional Intelligence

Soft skills aren’t soft anymore. They’re survival tools.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“If your business depends on you, you don’t have a business. You have a job.” Neela 🌶️’s latest story is a spicy takedown of hero ops culture. Where the “indispensable” employee isn’t a blessing, but a liability. Start building systems that run when you aren't there. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Hero Complex Is Killing Your Business!

When your vacation requires a backup plan for the entire company, you’ve got a problem. Here’s why we need to kill the ‘hero ops’ culture once and for all.

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Ever feel like you’re turning into an office dinosaur? 🦖 That creeping sense that your skills are stuck while everyone else is evolving? In her new story, Ivyna Koh shares how she faced that fear head-on and how leverage became her secret weapon for growth. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I Fear Becoming an Office Dinosaur

Thriving Amidst Dinosaurs: Using leverage to break out of the Prehistoric Team

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Ever built something with AI that worked perfectly… until it didn’t? @jenny-ouyang.bsky.social breaks down why that happens and how a few old-school software engineering habits can prevent 80% of AI build failures. Smart, practical, and grounded in real experience. open.substack.com/pub/codelike...

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The Essential Software Engineering Practices Every AI Builder Needs to Know

Start with the critical few that solve 80% of build-to-launch AI problems

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Why “Growth at All Costs” Was Always Going to Fail code.likeagirl.io/why-growth-a...

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Why “Growth at All Costs” Was Always Going to Fail

The Venture Capital Hangover: Why Efficiency Is the New Growth

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Gestures came before language and maybe they’re the key to more human tech. In her latest story, @blessingokpala.bsky.social connects Igbo storytelling to the rise of gesture-driven UX. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/gesture-dr...

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Gesture-Driven UX: The Future of Interaction Beyond Clicks

What Igbo storytelling can teach us about building more intuitive, gesture-driven user experiences.

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

When code runs fast, no one notices. When you do great work quietly, same thing. In code, invisibility is success. In your career, it’s a trap. Read @stefsdevnotes.bsky.social story on Code Like a Girl Substack. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/when-perfo...

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When Performance Feels Invisible

I optimized the code. Then I realized I needed to optimize myself.

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The Hidden Dangers of Dirty Filenames code.likeagirl.io/the-hidden-d...

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The Hidden Dangers of Dirty Filenames

Why your app might be one emoji away from disaster and how to fix it.

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Shift-Left QA: How Early Is Too Early? medium.com/code-like-a-...

Shift-Left QA: How Early Is Too Early?

Why rushing testers into early phases can sometimes backfire — and how to get it right.

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The ‘Manager’ Trap medium.com/@prifranca.t...

The ‘Manager’ Trap

How Companies Are Losing Their Best Engineers (And How to Fix It)

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

One act of recognition can change everything. When a professor credited Dinah on a research paper, it opened doors she didn’t know existed. Her latest story reflects on how that moment shaped her career and how we can all pay it forward. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/why-recogn...

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Why Recognition, Not Just Hard Work, Opens the Next Chapter of Your Career

How one professor’s choice to credit me set me on a path I never expected

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Staging Tables in SQL: Versions of You in Progress code.likeagirl.io/staging-tabl...

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Staging Tables in SQL: Versions of You in Progress

Nowadays, productivity means a lot, and we tend to fight a lot to give up on bad habits and work hard on adopting good ones. But this isn’t…

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Walking While Woman: Psychogeography, Gender, and the Digital Safety Net code.likeagirl.io/walking-whil...

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Walking While Woman: Psychogeography, Gender, and the Digital Safety Net

The streets weren’t built for women. But women are walking them anyway — rewriting the rules with each stride, app, and act of resistance.

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

How to build a Roadmap as an Engineering Leader code.likeagirl.io/how-to-build...

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How to build a Roadmap as an Engineering Leader

So, stepping into the Engineering Manager role, it’s not just a notch up the ladder. It’s a whole new way of operating. Your technical…

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

What happens when you vibe code for women in tech? Elena Calvillo built a $15K-level prototype for $0 — in 18 hours — using AI tools. Her platform helps women share real workplace challenges safely and anonymously. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/what-happe...

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Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

One push from a guidance counselor changed the course of Bette Ludwig’s life. Decades later, she’s circled back to her first love, writing, this time combining it with her expertise in higher ed and AI. Her story is proof that detours can bring us home. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/i-was-set-...

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I Was Set on My Future—Then One Conversation Rerouted My Entire Life

How a push I didn’t want shaped the career I never planned

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Compilers aren’t magic. They’re translators that turn human-readable code into the 1s and 0s your CPU can run. Nidhi’s latest shows the journey from source code → syntax trees → optimized machine code, in a way anyone can follow. Read here: codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/compiler-s...

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How does a Compiler Work?

Learn the whole compilation process.

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Karen Smiley (Everyday Ethical AI) @karensmiley.com · 28/09/2025

Appreciate @codelikeagirl.bsky.social for highlighting how the @shewritesai.org directory started and how it’s growing into a community to support #WomenInAI ! #DiversityInTech #ArtificialIntelligence

Code Like A Girl @codelikeagirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Neural networks were built on sexist theories of “male” vs. “female” brains. That bias didn’t stay in the lab—it’s coded into today’s AI. Feminist Science unpacks how flawed science shaped neural nets, and why it matters now. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/toxic-algo...

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Toxic Algorithms: Neural Networks and the "Sexed Brain"

Why Neural Networks are popular in AI.