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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.

Have a little fun this Halloween and create a spooky text adventure in Python!

Eliza has a full guide for you!

Happy Halloween!

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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.

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.

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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?

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.
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The Magic of Side Quests Why small, playful projects can reignite your creativity and transform your career

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

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What’s your current side quest?

The Unexpected Career Killer: Lack of Emotional Intelligence Soft skills aren’t soft anymore. They’re survival tools.

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.

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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.

“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.
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I Fear Becoming an Office Dinosaur Thriving Amidst Dinosaurs: Using leverage to break out of the Prehistoric Team

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.
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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

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.
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Why “Growth at All Costs” Was Always Going to Fail The Venture Capital Hangover: Why Efficiency Is the New Growth

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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.

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.

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When Performance Feels Invisible I optimized the code. Then I realized I needed to optimize myself.

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.
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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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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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The ‘Manager’ Trap How Companies Are Losing Their Best Engineers (And How to Fix It)

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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

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.
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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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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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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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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.

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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

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.
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How does a Compiler Work? Learn the whole compilation process.

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...

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

Toxic Algorithms: Neural Networks and the "Sexed Brain" Why Neural Networks are popular in AI.

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...

Invisible in Plain Sight: The Emotional Cost for Women at Work The unseen toll of being overlooked in rooms where decisions are made

Being “invisible in plain sight” at work isn’t about age—it’s about power.

Emanuela’s piece for Code Like A Girl shows how women are sidelined in decision-making spaces, and what it costs us.
Worth the read: Invisible in Plain Sight

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What Is Fine-Tuning in LLMs? A Beginner-Friendly Guide

What Is Fine-Tuning in LLMs? code.likeagirl.io/what-is-fine...

Achieving data maturity (3) Part 3: From jupyter notebooks to CI/CD pipelines

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From Treats to Tech: Why My Dog Made Me a Better Manager How Karen Pryor’s “Don’t Shoot the Dog!” taught me more about building tech teams than any management book ever did.

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The Story of SheWritesAI: Building a Home for Women in AI How a single message grew into a movement of 500+ voices

One message. Zero women on a “top AI writers” list.

That spark grew into SheWritesAI—A global directory of 500+ women & nonbinary voices in AI across 50+ countries, created by @karensmiley.com

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Why Your Strategy Is Worthless Without an Execution System? The Decision Machine

Neela shows why leaders don’t need another deck, they need a system that sharpens clarity, stress-tests ideas, and builds rhythm into execution.

Your real strategy? The decisions you make when pressure is high and time is short. codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/why-your-s...

AI Needs Women: Why Your Voice Belongs in the Future of Tech You don’t need to code to shape the future of AI, you just need to show up. This guide is your starting point.

78% of AI builders aren’t women. That shapes how algorithms see us—and often gets us wrong.

@nicolleweeks.bsky.social makes the case for why women need to be at the table shaping AI, not sidelined by it.

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