Code Like A Girl
@codelikeagirl.bsky.social
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. 🚀
How I Went From Chasing AI Tools to Building AI Systems open.substack.com/pub/codelike...
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.
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From Pilots to Production: Why AI Stalls Before It Delivers open.substack.com/pub/codelike...
From Pilots to Production: Why AI Stalls Before It Delivers
Why Feasibility Isn’t the Same as Readiness
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2025 Was the Year of AI Builders. Why Did So Many Teams Fail to Ship? open.substack.com/pub/codelike...
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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How to Build a Proprietary Content Engine Using Your Holiday Memories open.substack.com/pub/codelike...
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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The Prompt Engineering Myth: Why ‘Talking to AI’ Isn’t Actually Communication open.substack.com/pub/codelike...
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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I Didn’t Plan to Start a Movement. I Just Stopped Staying Quiet. open.substack.com/pub/codelike...
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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Forget Building a Second Brain. I Just Wanted My First One Back. open.substack.com/pub/codelike...
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.
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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...
Raising the Girls Who Will Fix What We Broke
STEM starts at the kitchen table, not the boardroom.
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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...
The Day I Realized My Gender Was Costing Me Money
Choosing between authenticity and visibility in the age of AI
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@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-...
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.
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Imposter Syndrome for Vibe Coders & The Myth of the “Real Developer” codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/imposter-s...
Imposter Syndrome for Vibe Coders & The Myth of the “Real Developer”
A gentle smackdown for the voice telling you you’re not technical enough.
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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.
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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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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
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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...
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.
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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...
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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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...
AI-When it looks, it inherits; when it writes, it hesitates.
Beyond the Algorithm
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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...
So You Achieved Everything You Wanted. Now What?
A Love Letter to Career Changes and Wisdom
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@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...
How I Made AI My Unfair Career Advantage
How to Spot Opportunities Early and Turn Them Into Your Leverage
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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-...
Why Women Are the Real Vibe Coders Now
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The “Frankenstein” Known As Vibe Coding
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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
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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-...
The Messy Reality of AI Products After Launch
Early traction isn’t about traffic. It’s about signals.
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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...
Creating a Halloween Text Adventure in Python
Turn your Python code into a haunted tale where every choice changes the ending.
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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...
What if We're Using AI All Wrong?
Have we traded manual exhaustion for AI-assisted exhaustion? It’s time for a new approach.
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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?
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