Every chapter
22 chapters, in order. From the first doubts to my first job as a backend developer.
From 0 to 100
Two weeks into my new job and the feeling of learning faster than ever.
🥊 Box well. The knockout comes on its own
How I went from finishing a bootcamp to working in backend at a fintech.
🚀 Building my first SaaS with FastAPI and PostgreSQL: the real errors that almost broke my backend
💡 What I learned building a course platform while I am still learning web development.
🚧 In the meantime
Building two projects at once: working in a team and building a SaaS from scratch.
🔍 Job hunting is a job too (and nobody prepares you for it)
And I am learning it the hard way.
🎓 The end of the bootcamp, the beginning of my real tech path
When finishing your studies is, in fact, the real beginning
🚀 The day I stopped 'practising' and started really coding
Final project at the UpgradeHub bootcamp: real architecture, real deployment, real mistakes (yes, I deleted the repo) and a complete API running in production.
🌍⚡ Connecting Angular to the real world and surviving
From technical chaos to the mental click: how I went from understanding Angular in theory to making it talk to real APIs, handle authentication errors, and feel like everything finally fits.
I am back again… and JS (dressed up as TS) laughing in my face 😈
The challenge of switching my brain from Python to Angular, and the start of my Family Schedule project.
🚀 Angular and the tech maze: everything is better with AI!
Angular after Christmas: I came close to dropping out of the bootcamp, and how AI helped me get hooked again.
🫀 Re-start: When your brain says 'enough' so you can carry on
A reflection on mental saturation and the importance of switching off.
🤯 FastAPI: From a single file to 'Passing the Ball' (My Survival Cheat Sheet) 🐍
From a single main.py to separating responsibilities in FastAPI: my survival cheat sheet for not overcomplicating things (and overcomplicating them anyway).
⚔️ The Battle of the Databases: SQL, Mongo and the Bootcamp Rollercoaster
SQL and MongoDB at the bootcamp: the stress of not writing code any more, the console, and a genuine fascination with databases.
🐍 Dear Python:
A love letter (and a confused-syntax letter) to Python, written by someone who came from JavaScript and the myth of the easy language.
🟨 JavaScript: the language I did not know I was going to love
We wrapped up the JavaScript module and something I did not expect happened: I love it. From feeling like I was writing hieroglyphs to actually enjoying it.
📚 Learning JavaScript step by step
Now that the Bootcamp has started and I am revising JavaScript, I want to share how I am organising my learning and what I am discovering at this stage.
🎉 The Bootcamp finally started!
The bootcamp begins: how I revised JavaScript, HTML and CSS before day one, and the tutorials that genuinely helped me.
💻☕ Starting to walk through the change
The Upgrade Hub prework and the shock of learning how to study programming when you come from the school of textbooks.
🤯 Doubts, second thoughts and a cold coffee
The dilemma of the two Lauras: looking at bootcamps, doubting everything, and asking myself whether starting from scratch is really worth it.
🌱 Motherhood, the career pause… and a click
Guilt, doubts and an emotional whirlwind: motherhood, depersonalisation and the questions I could no longer keep ignoring.
🪜 The step that changed my (working) life.
From textbooks to the office: my working life and that constant attempt at change and self-improvement, starting from a degree chosen without passion.
📍 A continuous journey: from Córdoba to Barcelona
Moving from a career in accounting to web development, alongside my family and my life experiences.
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