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Learning to code at 30: what actually worked

Tutorials feel productive and teach very little. Here is the routine that turned a stalled year of "learning to code" into actually shipping things.

BuildHer Team4 minOct 3, 2026

AI is rewriting entry-level tech work. Here is what to do about it

The tasks that used to be a first job — boilerplate, small fixes, tidy-up work — are exactly what AI is best at. That changes the entry point, not the destination.

BuildHer Team5 minSep 28, 2026

Women in Tech

The first programmers were women. And the industry forgot.

Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm, six women programmed the ENIAC, and Grace Hopper taught machines to understand English. Then the job got famous — and the women quietly disappeared from the story.

BuildHer2 minSep 20, 2026

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