Your Side Project Is Too Ambitious
I don’t know you, but I know that your side project is too ambitious. I know that you’ve worked on the project for too long. Weeks? Months? I know that you keep coming back to it after you’ve got distracted…
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Five Oopsies Coding Bootcampers Make While Looking For A Job
Used to show recognition of a mistake or minor accident… oopsie Some of these are a bit bigger than an oopsie. They may be categorized as “whoopsie daisies” or even “oopsie doopsies.” Trust me, you don’t want to be doing…
The Hard Truth: Life Begins After Coding Bootcamps
“Genuine question, is how many of those people in the bootcamp actually push themselves to continue learning even after the class? How many of them continuously kept applying for jobs along with networking post bootcamp? I just want to put…
Trust is The Secret To Getting A Job After A Coding Bootcamp
Boss hired a “full stack dev” (certificate from a bootcamp)… The FS dev had never used the browser Inspector tool before to troubleshoot (and didn’t seem to know it existed), so that was a red flag to the best of…
Book Review: “Better Buses, Better Cities”
My new role at CitySwift is all about solving challenges in city bus systems, and to do that I wanted to understand these challenges better. Did you know a street can carry as much as 600-1600 people an hour by car, whereas…
The Big Move
Life can be unexpected and full of difficult decisions, but this was one of the easiest decisions I have made so far even though it feels like it will be the biggest change I have made in my life. My…
Book Review: Atomic Habits
There are many things I want to do in life, all the time, all at once. The more that I want to do, the less satisfied I am with progress. From reading The Power of Habit, I know that habits…
“The Torque Shifter”
I’ve long been obsessed with EVs, ever since getting a remote control Traxxas Rustler. It was 2WD and had oodles of torque, at least for about ten minutes before the NiCAD batteries wore out. It could do wheelies. Wheelies! That…
1,000-Year-Old Software Redux
Sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways. I’m not one for mystics, but I have to admit that my own foresight has given me a bit of a shiver last night. Of course, I didn’t attempt to be the next…
Assessments
Is This Cheating? After clicking through the second LinkedIn assessment, I realized that what I was really assessing was how fast I could eliminate answers by searching for terms I was unfamiliar with on Google. A long time ago, after…