# Writing — Bianca Correia

> 13 posts on code, product and changing careers, written as I learn.

## 2026

- [How I Researched My Way to a Mobile App Idea](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/how-i-researched-my-way-to-a-mobile-app-idea) — 4 Oct 2026. Most people pick an app idea the way they pick a takeaway: whatever they happen to be craving that evening. I wanted to do it differently.
- [Building Scentfolio: A Full-Stack Fragrance Tracking Platform with Ruby on Rails](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/building-scentfolio-a-full-stack-fragrance-tracking-platform-with-ruby-on-rails) — 9 Jun 2026. I chose a niche that I find exciting: fragrances. Throughout the years I have been using websites hanging on by their last html line of code to gather my…
- [From Static HTML to Smart Templates: A beginner's guide](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/from-static-html-to-smart-templates-a-beginner-s-guide) — 18 Mar 2026. When I first started learning frontend development, I thought building a webpage meant writing a lot of HTML.
- [Learning Stimulus JS as a New Developer: My First Impressions](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/learning-stimulus-js-as-a-new-developer-my-first-impressions) — 12 Mar 2026. When you're learning web development, JavaScript frameworks can feel… intimidating. At least they did for me.
- [HTTP & API's](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/http-api-s) — 9 Mar 2026. If you’ve ever clicked something on a webpage that looks clickable… but absolutely nothing happens, you know that weird moment of confusion.
- [JavaScript & the DOM](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/javascript-and-the-dom) — 17 Feb 2026. When I first started learning JavaScript, most of what I wrote lived in the console.
- [Building a Responsive Signup Form with Bootstrap (Without Losing Your Mind)](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/building-a-responsive-signup-form-with-bootstrap-without-losing-your-mind) — 12 Feb 2026. Forms are everywhere. Login forms, signup forms, checkout forms, newsletter forms… and yet, they’re one of the easiest things to mess up.
- [Learning HTML & CSS Selectors by Building A Profile Page](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/learning-html-and-css-selectors-by-building-a-profile-page) — 10 Feb 2026. When I started learning HTML and CSS, I quickly realised that writing content is only half the story.
- [What I Learned About Active Record Migrations in Ruby](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/what-i-learned-about-active-record-migrations-in-ruby) — 9 Feb 2026. In this exercise, I learned how to use Active Record migrations to build the structure of a database using Ruby.
- [How To Build a Store Interface Program](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/how-to-build-a-store-interface-program) — 2 Feb 2026. After the completion of one week, we were requested to build a store interface program that was the culmination of all we had learned throughout the first…
- [What I Learned About Hashes and Symbols in Ruby](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/what-i-learned-about-hashes-and-symbols-in-ruby) — 26 Jan 2026. As I continue learning Ruby, one of the most important concepts I have encountered is the use of hashes and symbols.
- [What I Learned From My First Ruby Backend Challenge](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-my-first-ruby-backend-challenge) — 26 Jan 2026. Starting my first backend coding challenge with Ruby was honestly a mix of excitement, confusion, and a lot of “wait… what?” moments .
- [Early Days](https://biancacorreia.com/blog/early-days) — 26 Jan 2026. I’m excited to share that I’ve officially joined Le Wagon and have started working through the prep work ahead of the course.