Rachel in Words

Photo by Sai Kiran Anagani “So how does one learn to code?” “I just want to build an app quickly. What do I need to learn?” “I want to build a website for my photography business. Can’t be that hard, right?” “I signed up for a course that says I can learn to code in thirty days. Can I really?” Almost everyone I speak to when they find out I write code for a living. A quick Google search of ‘how to code’ or ‘how to code without a computer science degree’ will yield a myriad of step-by-step quick solutions on how to be a coding wizard in a matter of days. There are websites like  Lynda  and  Treehouse  in which you can learn to code for a small subscription. Some people spend years at University studying programming. Some people are self-taught. All of them are valid. But what people fail to consider is that no solution is perfect. For some people, they could watch a couple of online tutorials and become a coding master. For most, that’s not necessarily pl...

Five years ago, having just returned to Australia after spending a long period of time in Europe, I needed a place to show off all the photos I had taken with my shiny new DSLR purchased in London. Jet-lagged, broke, unemployed, bored and living on my mum's living room floor, I hopped on Tumblr and created From Another Angle - a travel blog. Great Russell St, London UK. One of my personal favourites. When I travel, I like to submerge myself in the place and absorb everything I possibly can. I would also do my research. Along with my photos I would write in the caption a random fact about the place that other people (other than locals) may not have known. For example, did you know that the Eiffel Tower was considered an eyesore by France's leading artists and designers? I would also add little funny anecdotes to accompany my pictures. Did you know that once I wanted to practice my Spanish, so I stumbled into the men's Prada store in Madrid and asked the sales assis...