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jess unrein

Pronouns: they/them | | | Pythonista, cat lover, avid reader, and gamer in Chicago. Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/thejessleigh

Chicago Joined on Sep 19, 2018 https://jessunrein.com

Education

Dev Bootcamp (RIP), Knox College (non-coding degree)

Work

Engineer

python, flask, django, sql, sqlalchemy, community development, public speaking

Right now I'm working on learning about AWS Lambda and Fargate by implementing some toy apps using the goodreads API. Hit me up if you think of any cute/quirky book projects to work on!

Fun collaborative projects, local meetup presentations, solicited explainer articles and tutorials, board game hangs if we ever happen to be near each other :)

21 posts published

172 comments written

31 tags followed

Sep 3 '21

idle thought on my declining participation in dev communities

#discuss #worklifebalance #softskills #mentalhealth

1 min read

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Apr 21 '20

how is everyone holding up?

#discuss #personal #chat #mentalhealth

2 min read

Jul 27 '19

programming languages as crafts and toys

#watercooler

1 min read

Mar 8 '19

A PSA for Well Meaning Coworkers This International Women's Day

#shecoded #theycoded #psa #venting

2 min read

Mar 8 '19

Driven mostly by spite, jess coded

#theycoded #vecoded

1 min read

Jan 16 '19

3 Tricky Python Nuances

#explainlikeimfive #python #beginners

6 min read

Dec 12 '18

What Even Is Data Engineering?

#data #businessintelligence #engineering #infrastructure

2 min read

Dec 10 '18

Where do you find conference CFPs?

#discuss #speaking #conferences #advice

1 min read

Dec 6 '18

Different types of testing explained

#explainlikeimfive #testing #beginners

7 min read

Dec 3 '18

Papers We Love: Exploring Gamification Among Elderly Persons

#discuss #pwl #gamification #a11y

2 min read

Nov 16 '18

Dockerizing a Simple Python Process

#explainlikeimfive #python #docker #tutorial

7 min read

Nov 8 '18

Converting a csv writer from Python 2 to Python 3

#explainlikeimfive #python #csv #debugging

4 min read

Nov 7 '18

Papers We Love!

#discuss #pwl #whitepaper #computerscience

1 min read

Nov 1 '18

Getting started with code mindfulness exercises

#discuss #help #mindfulness #codemindfulness

1 min read

Oct 30 '18

Live Tweeting Tech Events: Practical Tips and Tricks

#community #advice #conferences #twitter

6 min read

Oct 29 '18

Quick and dirty .htaccess for small personal sites

#htaccess #security #tutorial #seo

9 min read

Oct 26 '18

Essential quality of life terminal improvements

#explainlikeimfive #bash #terminal #tutorial

8 min read

Oct 25 '18

How to get the most out of DEV

#discuss #meta

1 min read

Oct 25 '18

Don't comment out your unit tests!

#python #unittest #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Oct 23 '18

Speed up your PostgreSQL unit tests with one weird trick!

#postgres #unittest #database #performance

2 min read

Oct 22 '18

Up your git game with --patch

#git #productivity #tutorial #beginners

5 min read

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