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The first in our new series, Who Codes, is live today! Check it out ;) 

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(via GIPHY) Check out our free Coding Victories gif pack! https://skillcrush.com/coding-victory-gif-pack GET THE PARTY STARTED 

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The Hidden Figures effect: inspiring a new generation of women

After its initial release, the inspirational effect of Hidden Figures is still being felt around the world. “I just loved it,” says 18-year-old June Eric-Udorie, a UK-based student and campaigner. “I left the cinema and thought: ‘There has to be a way that I can open up access [to the film].’”

Inspired, Eric-Udorie set to work planning how to show more people the film. “I’d read about [Hidden Figures star] Octavia Spencer buying out a cinema and offering it to single-parent families and thought: ‘Well, I can’t buy out an entire cinema, because I don’t have that kind of money, but I can take two or three girls with me.’” She tweeted her intentions and an initially modest plan began to snowball. “I came back at the end of the day and there was £1,000 in my PayPal account.”

Eric-Udorie eventually raised enough money to put on a free screening in east London’s Genesis cinema for about 500 schoolgirls from low-income backgrounds. “There was also a panel of women of colour working in Stem [science, technology, engineering and maths], and every single girl who attended got a copy of the original book by Margot Lee Shetterly,” she says. “One girl said it was the first book she’d read in several years.”

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I mean, we all want to choose where we work from, right? 

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Tumblr hacks :)

the fancy font

tumblr is getting fancy guys. just change your text editor on a new text post to html editor and copy this. post and you have 

<p class="npf_quirky" data-npf='{"subtype":"quirky"}'>fancy font</p>

fancy font

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Rethinking Self-Care

When is it just avoidance?

By Jean Boampong. Illustration by Izzy Ryan.

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Thanks for this post! @lunacodes

Awesome!

Also, sounds like a way for them to seriously press for LetsEncrypt (which considering that more and more webhosts are enabling 1-click LetsEncrypt installs, is fucking Amazing)

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Best part about the internet? Free resources ! 

Really brilliant and helpful post by @ipstenu (Mike Epstein)

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This looks great! From @laurenlovescode <3

Moved on to learning about Flex Box today and wow–I have to say I am loving it! Though responsive web design is still a challenge for me, I have a greater appreciation for “shortcuts” like flex box and Bootstrap! I am excited to implement these new skills into my portfolio site. Here’s a snapshot of another class project with a basic flex box grid. 

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26/3/2017; 3 degrees celsius, clear skies. i was feeling the sun and the shadows on my desk this afternoon. pictured: black coffee, fruit water, viewegh, my mini planner from papelote, french vocab.

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loving this workspace by @justagirltryingtostudy

desk shot

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Fire up your computer and land that job!

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Women should be coding. Women are good at math. The gender divide is a problem we all need to solve.