It Feels Like Love, But It's Not

Oi gatinhas! That was for our Brasileiras out there. Welcome back to the Latinas in Tech TV show on Substack. I’m your hostess, Chakra Girl. I took over production shortly after the hurricanes in October. Believe it or not, things have been going super swell. Our open rate is holding steady at 69%! Maybe we don’t need Dr. Nutmeg and her Femmebots??? Either way, we’ll check on them next week.

Meantime, it’s Thursday night, which means it’s time for another chapter of THE NINE LIVES OF MARIA LA GATA! In last week’s chapter, Maria fell backwards into the arms of Fred, her former lover and The Baby’s papi.

In tonight’s chapter, Maria enjoys the pleasures of Fred...until she doesn’t. But most importantly, she makes a decision that will bring her closer to her dream of becoming a rum runner…and not coincidentally, a better mother.

If you’re a paid subscriber, scroll down to read the salacious love scene!

If you’re a free subscriber, please consider upgrading. Maria La Gata takes us back to the 1920s so we can see how much harder it was to be a woman 100 years ago. Context and perspective right now are important for those of us who experienced the freedoms of Title IX — which you can contemplate more by following our story on Monday nights about a family of “Model Ricans.”

In between each of these stories, I hope I am annoying you with our JavaScript workshops. Even if AI can do all the heavy lifting of coding nowadays, this doesn’t give us Latinas in Tech the right to be lazy. Exercising our brains with code on a daily basis is a healthy habit…especially if dementia runs in your fam. :)

Data Structures, Modern Operators, and Strings

Why would I want to go through the process of Destructuring Arrays?

The instructor explained in 20min, and I followed, but I didn't understand why I would want to list a bunch of restaurants, menus, operating hours, and other data sets within a JavaScript Extraction Context. Well, now, I'm just writing down phrases I remember from the previous lesson. Scope Stack. Hoisting. this keyword. Objects and oh, I don't remember now. 

There are a few Practice Assignments after the lessons, and I don't want to do them because I have enough "practice assignments" at work. Creating a slideshow from scratch was hard -- for me. It's probably easy for someone else, but I'm still pretty clumsy with all the code, same way I am with speaking Spanish. I can "read" it. I can edit it. 

But am I genuinely learning enough to write code from scratch?

Maybe not yet. The important thing right now: STICK WITH IT! Don't quit! That's what Josephine Baker told Maria La Gata in the last chapter. OK, OK.

Gotta learn all the following by Thanksgiving:

Short Circuiting (&& and ||)

The Nullish Coalescing Operator (??)

Logical Assignment Operators

CHALLENGE #1

Looping Arrays: The for-of Loop

Enhanced Object Literals

Optional Chaining (?.)

Looping Objects: Object Keys, Values, and Entries

CHALLENGE #2

Ayyyyy. There is so much more to go!