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developer advocate @auth0 โœจ aws community builder โœจprev @StackOverflow podcast co-host โœจ next.js + reactโš›๏ธโœจshe/they

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i cannot imagine why any job on planet earth would require 13 interviews
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is it front-end, frontend or front end????
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nglโ€ฆ i thought coding in a google doc during a technical interview was a joke yโ€™all๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…
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does EOD mean 5pm or 11:59pm??????
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lol people changed their branch name from โ€œmasterโ€ to โ€œmainโ€ and thought they were done
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i am 20 and iโ€™ve officially been in tech for less than 6 months. i am almost always the youngest and/or least experienced person in the room and itโ€™s not easy yโ€™all๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿฅฒ
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YALL!!!!!!!! I LITERALLY JUST GOT AN OFFER FOR A DIFFERENT POSITION OMG
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I โœจfailedโœจ my take home challenge
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I almost forgot to share this but as of Friday, your girl is officially an AWS Certified Cloud Practioner๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ˜Œ
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I canโ€™t believe weโ€™re still trying to convince people that passion is necessary to make it in tech. If you only want the money, thatโ€™s totally valid. Go ahead and feed yourself and your family. Iโ€™m sick of guilt tripping people for wanting to do that
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Super excited to share that Iโ€™ll be joining @codesandbox as a Developer Marketing Coordinator๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ Iโ€™ll be focusing on developer relations and content creation and Iโ€™m soooo excited ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ
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Donโ€™t underestimate your ability to learn on the job
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Me side stepping all the gatekeepers in tech
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โ€œCoding for the money isnโ€™t enough. You NEED to be passionateโ€
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Everyday I realize how much I donโ€™t understand JavaScript ๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿฅด
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I really really like seeing peopleโ€™s desk setups. So can we start a thread?? If youโ€™re up for it, share a pic of your desk setup!
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Very soon, Iโ€™m going to start getting paid to code and I canโ€™t believe it. I feel like if I breath wrong, all the things I have in the works will fall apart๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿฅด
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Genuine question: if a conference is a paid event, why arenโ€™t speakers being paid??
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Everyday Iโ€™m reminded why there are no โ€œdreamโ€ companies. Like literally none. Almost every company that Iโ€™ve thought was doing a good job at treating employees and customers right turned out to be real shady
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This is why deciding how to wear my hair for job interviews was a battle. The idea that natural black hair is unprofessional and messy needs to disappear
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Someone actually told me to look this up and Oh my God!!
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isnโ€™t there a computer science guide out there for self taught developers?
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hi. i would like to announce that i made my first ever pr review๐Ÿค  plz clap for me
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Soo... i just โœจbombedโœจ a technical interview in the worst way possible. Idk... thinking about becoming a lumberjack
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how many technical interviews have i failed bc i was deliberately given harder problems to solve and not offered any help or hints? the world may never know
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After my first week on my new job, Iโ€™m learning to ask lots of questions, no matter how obvious they seem. Suffering in silence is not worth it
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I think finding out youโ€™ve been fired by suddenly losing access to all your accounts without warning has got to be one of my top 5 career fears
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Honestly, I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ll ever understand git and Iโ€™m completely okay with that
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What are some JavaScript and React projects that can be built in a weekend?
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How are people in tech avoiding burn out? Especially given theโ€ฆ everything going on in our world rn???
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Yโ€™all... someone commented that they made their first open source contribution after reading my article๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿฅบ
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If you have junior developers on your team, please, please make it clear that asking questions is okay and even encouraged. Obviously, this goes for all developers but is especially helpful for juniors
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Me: WHY AM I IN THIS INDUSTRY???? WHYYYY???? *direct deposit hits* Me: oh right
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Thinking about that time someone was telling me how easy it is to get into tech and then I asked what they had to know for their first job. They said โ€œHTML and CSSโ€. I almost cried๐Ÿฅฒ
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I am trying to raise a generation of developers who wonโ€™t do technical interviews, one tweet at a time.
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Okay the wait is over!!! Super super extremely excited to share that Iโ€™ll be joining @apollographql as a Developer Advocate later on this month๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ
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Sometimes I think about the fact that we lose so many great developers bc of how horrible tech interviewing is. Multiple grueling interviews paired with nerve racking technical screenings and challenges cuts off so much amazing talent
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Question to developers: if you start a new job or project the requires you to know a language or technology that youโ€™re not familiar with, how do you approach learning it?
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I just finished my talk AWS: The Gateway to Full-stack Development for Front-end Developers๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I promised attendees some helpful resources so hereโ€™s a quick thread:
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A couple things I wanna say: You donโ€™t need fancy equipment to be a developer. You donโ€™t need the latest MacBook Pro or webcam or mic or monitor. Having those things is cool but not having them doesnโ€™t make you less valid
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Unpaid internships should not be a thing and I will never change my mind about this
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Do yโ€™all research your interviewer before the interview?? Or is that weird๐Ÿ˜…
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I be congratulating people I donโ€™t even know on this app ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ It could be my first time ever seeing you pop up but if you announce some good news, you will get the ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ emoji from me lol
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I kinda wish I could... shadow a software engineer or cloud engineer. I just want a glimpse of what the actual day to day looks opposed to just imagining it Then maybe Iโ€™ll have a better idea of what things Iโ€™m learning are actually important?
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i'm speaking this into existence: i think i would be a great developer advocate/educator๐Ÿค“
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All those trash takes under that โ€œwhy are there more men than women in techโ€ tweet are real. Those are real people who work right next to us and who decide who does and doesnโ€™t get hired.
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literally none of us feel this way
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Young employees are losing out 'on a lot' by not going to the office, business experts say (via @CNBCMakeIt )
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I didnโ€™t get the job but that was also my first technical interview๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ Iโ€™m happy about that bc thatโ€™s kind of a milestone for me. Iโ€™ve only ever done one take home challenge before which was for a contract position. I think I did pretty good for my first time๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š
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I was telling my mom how I was stressed over this interview and she was like โ€œCEO is in your name. Just sayin.โ€ Iโ€™ve been cracking up for the last 10 minutes ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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If itโ€™s not in Google Calendar, itโ€™s NOT happening
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Iโ€™m pretty upset about a learner being charged such a huge AWS bill. Like Iโ€™m legit mad about that and the fact that it happens to so many people And Amazon certainly doesnโ€™t need the money. Itโ€™s so exploitative
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Today is my first day as a developer advocate at @auth0 ๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿคญ Now that itโ€™s officially official, it actually feels real lol
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Me every time a recruiter or interviewer asks me about salary expectations
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Excited to share that Iโ€™ll be joining the @auth0 devrel team as a Developer Advocate starting on June 27th๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿพ
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A few months ago, I applied for a software engineering internship and I had to complete a technical challenge which I failed๐Ÿ™ƒ That technical challenge was given to me in a CodeSandbox and now I'm about to work there๐Ÿ’๐Ÿพโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿพ
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i really hate how we glamorize and romanticize overworking
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Job searching
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What's something that ISN'T a full time job, but still FEELS like a full time job?
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someone recently mentioned how financial disparity between friends can cause issues and boy were they spot on๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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If youโ€™re a self taught dev, do you have tips for really improving and making it from beginner -> intermediate -> advanced? I feel like I donโ€™t have a path and Iโ€™m just wandering around without purpose and I wanna change that
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Am I the only one who feels like you donโ€™t owe me or anyone an explanation when your camera is off?
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Iโ€™m developing a weird obsession with documentation. What does this mean??
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if you keep pushing through the burn out, will it eventually go away???
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20 + 40 = 60 7 + 8 = 15 60 + 15 = 75
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27+48 =25+2+48 =25+50 =75
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i feel kinda ignorant for this but im just now realizing that people who donโ€™t speak English still essentially have to code in English. i think i just assumed that key words built into every language would just be translated over or something???
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Whatโ€™s a potential career path for someone who doesnโ€™t want to be a manager? I donโ€™t want to manage anyone but I feel like I mostly see junior -> senior -> engineering manager
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i read somewhere recently that 5 day 40hr work week forces many of us to seek joy and gratification from buying things and not doing things bc we donโ€™t have time for the latter. so we end up holding consumer culture bc we donโ€™t have time to *do* things that make us happy
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No seriously what do we have to do to make 4 day work weeks a thing????
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Please tell me Iโ€™m not the only one who needs at least 20 minutes to recharge after a long meeting
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who is actively trying to get people in tech? what organizations should i be referring people to? i want to create a list to have on hand
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TIL about the `code .` command for opening folders in VSCode. So yeah my life just got a lot easier
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i worked at daycare that the owner ran for 30 years and this is how she put the babies to sleep and she taught me to do the same
He fought a good fight.. Night Night Little Man๐Ÿ˜‚๐ŸคŽ
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I love when introverts have to recharge and take a nap or something after an hour or more of social interaction. Itโ€™s so cute ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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one thing that i didnโ€™t anticipate with getting into tech and my income increasing is the tension that would cause in family
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Can you see my screen?
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Describe 2020 in 5 words or less
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jokes on yโ€™all Iโ€™m not in tech for money or for passion. Iโ€™m here for company swag
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I could never be a manager bc if someone whoโ€™s on my team is having a rough week, I would cry
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Itโ€™s up! I wrote a quick run down of some of the things I learned from my not-so-great technical interview yesterday. Number 1 takeaway is this: GET SOME SLEEP THE NIGHT BEFORE
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oh btw im no longer job searching๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿคญ
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I hate to be that person but I donโ€™t have a dream company because โœจnot workingโœจ is my dream.
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Dream company to work for? Tag them below! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฟ
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Exciting announcement #2 : This summer, Iโ€™m going to be a Web Development Instructor Assistant @kodewithklossy ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ Today is my first day so Iโ€™m in between nervous and excited ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜†
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โ€œWhatโ€™s the salary range for this position?โ€ aka my favorite way to open the door for salary negotiation.
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I had a realization yesterday. At this point in my career, Iโ€™m 110% sure that dev advocacy is the place for me. I actually enjoy it and Iโ€™m *good* at it. Itโ€™s a really nice feeling to know this ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š
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@itsarkhmed @TirzahMonee This is what the ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ™‚ emoji means to me
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I remember before I got started in tech I read about how a significant amount of women, Black people, and POC donโ€™t stick around for that long I get it now ๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿฅด
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Me when I learned that serverless isnโ€™t really serverless
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My AWS cost management article was mentioned in the @LastWeekinAWS newsletter yesterday๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿพ
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if any of you (or even you @hankgreen ) are writing a book, my name is virtually unknown and undeniably cool. you have my permission to use Ceora but you have to tell me first so i can scream about it
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Looking for character names / screennames...if you don't mind your name being in a novel (Note: you might be an asshole) please reply to this.
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By the way, over the weekend, I FINALLY CREATED MY PERSONAL BLOG!!!!!!!!! ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ I built it with eleventy using a starter by Dan Urbanowicz (idk if heโ€™s on twitter) Still lots of work to do but you can check it out here ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ
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honest question: why do employers care about gaps in employment history?? like why is that relevant?? I donโ€™t get it๐Ÿ˜•
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I feel like since I donโ€™t have a CS degree, I have to do a bunch of other things to stand out. I have to write articles. I have to be super active on social media. I have to be part of lots of different communities. Am I the only one who feels this way? Am I wrong??
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Content for beginners by beginners is so important. I have to keep reminding myself that
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How do yโ€™all feel about location based compensation? Because idk how to feel about it so Iโ€™m interested in hearing other peopleโ€™s thoughts
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Me on Monday morning vs me on Friday morning๐Ÿฅฒ
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@ceeoreo_
ceora ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒบ
3 years
i really hate to see people glorify over working.
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@ceeoreo_
ceora ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒบ
3 years
instead of technical interviews, we should be doing dance battles.
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@ceeoreo_
ceora ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒบ
3 years
omg i start my new job tomorrow๐Ÿค ๐Ÿค 
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@ceeoreo_
ceora ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒบ
3 years
what is this?
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@ceeoreo_
ceora ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒบ
9 months
escaped an abusive, toxic household and moved into my own apartment which i fully furnished all on my own๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿพ i also keynoted 2 conferences this year, traveled outside the country for the first time, and started therapy again๐Ÿ˜Š
@ATMwithJacy
Jacy, LPC
9 months
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOUโ€™RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 โœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจโœจ
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