Once upon a time, a time doesn’t seem that long time ago, I went to see my ex boss about starting a coding school for women and non binary people in the slums of India funded by paid for classes here in the UK. 4 and a half years later…

23 Code Street is going online! Hello! Last week at 23 Code Street, we closed our physical office doors for the foreseeable future due to concerns around COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus. Our priority and commitment will always be to safeguard our students and team, whether that is mentally…

They’re cutting me open. The feedback I got for the first blog about having MG was mental (if you don’t know what I’m on about, you better go here and read this first and then come back. Lol, you thought you would get away with just reading this and getting…

Dear people planning events, Events are important. They bring the community together, they are opportunities to learn, teach, share, and meet new people. They are opportunities for opinions, for humour, for sadness, for anger. They are opportunities for self promotion. They are a place to find your tribe. …

This question is meant to be a conversation starter, a formality. The answer is meant to be “good, thanks, you?” or “fine, thanks” or “great, you?”. …

More specifically, how do we better fund and support new talent? Arlan of Backstage Capital asked this question to millsustwo, Nafisa Bakkar, Alex Fefegha, Andy Ayim, and me in our meeting at ustwo adventure last week. Backstage Capital, a VC firm based in the US, is a venture capital fund that invests in exceptional women, people of colour, and LGBT tech…