Iheanyi Ekechukwu @kwuchu Twitter profile

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

6 years

I spent the past few months building a tool to help you make money from your blogs, web apps, and open source projects! @tryseeker is a free, easy-to-install job board that you can tailor to your audience’s needs. Check it out at !

Seeker

Seeker is the easiest way to host your own job board!

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 months

So I bought my parents a new Brother printer because their old one broke and my 72 year-old dad called customer support for help setting it up, instead of me. They had him run a command that showed him networking traffic and tried to tell him, "Your network is compromised, buy

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I saw this car in a press release a year ago and I was keenly following its development until it was actually released. It took me calling like 5 dealerships in Texas, but I'm glad I was actually able to secure one. Looking forward to driving this thing for years to come. 😤

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3 years

This car is even more beautiful in person 😭😭😭😭😭

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3 years

This guy with #272 of the same car was at the dealership getting something checked out with his car and was excited to see me, he pulled up and we chatted for a bit and he asked for a picture together to seal this moment in history. 😂

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

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23 days

@TinekeYounger01 Cook that fraud

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

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4 years

How I look revisiting code that I wrote in the past.

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5 months

Shit, my dad is 73, not 72, lmao. My point still stands though lmao

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@kwuchu

7 years

This meme really speaks to my soul.

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5 months

@Kno Extremely worse. They deleted their Twitter account so I can't even tag their punk asses.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 months

I'm mad because I wanted to double check the number he called and I texted him and this man's said he deletes his phone history 😭 WHY?!

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

I got inspiration for a meme

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

8 years

Yo, RT this if you are a child of immigrants. Because people don't realize how many of us there are.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

2 years

Software Engineer in dreads here, also graduated from the University of Notre Dame. I don't think growing hair had any effect on my competence. Problem with a lot of leaders in various African countries is that they still have a colonial mindset/respectability politics.

Hon. George Peter Kaluma, CBS. MP.

@gpdkaluma

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@SekuruRoddie Imagine your doctor, Lawyer, Engineer in dreadlocks 🏃🏃

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Start up advice: Never hire a sexist incel, even after you find product-market fit.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Dang, Google really out here releasin' phones in the color of the tech industry.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

My girlfriend sent me this meme and it cracked me the fuck up (she's a doctor).

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

I'll come back and fix this hacky code later in a separate pull request.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

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3 years

I love our living room, it's mad cozy. 🥺

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 months

He was looking at a physical copy, I'll ask him to use the app or go online. My dad is old school, he sent me a pic of the physical bill because what's paperless billing? 😭

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 months

@JoseTantrum Yes, he called the number on the manual that shipped with his printer smh

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 months

And I asked him to check his bill for the number and this man's pulled out an itemized receipt, no numbers listed on it, heh.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

So, in some exciting news, today was my last day working at GitHub. Building GitHub Actions over the last 2+ years has been nothing short of an amazing experience and journey. All the flights, rewrites (I think we stopped at 3), and late nights have been so worth it.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

2 years

One of my cofounder friends asked me how much downtime we have when deploying code and I looked her dead in the eye and said, "What downtime? We don't have any downtime when we deploy. If we do, something's gone wrong." So I prodded her for more context on why she asked...

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

How I sleep at night knowing there are many companies who rejected me in the past but now use products that I helped build.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Trying to find the black people on a tech company's team page

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

Been coding for at least five years and I still write down a featurue's pseudocode before actual implementation. Helps me notice edge cases at times and also think about how to polish / refine the feature.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

8 years

I think it's safe to say that tech companies are more likely to have a dog in their Team page than a black person.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

Decided to try and remember how many rejections I got during my interviewing circuit. There's a lot more where I bombed the coding screen, but can't remember those ones. Needless to say, I got rejected a lot for not being "technical enough" 🤷🏾‍♂️ #ShareYourRejections

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

For my birthday, I impulsively paid off the rest of my student loan debt in full. I'm officially debt-free now, whoo!

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

So far, I'm really enjoying the remote and engineering culture at GitHub. I can see how they've had success with a remote workforce, pretty much EVERYTHING (like, literally everything) is documented and organized for everything. It's awesome.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

I remember being in my early 20s and constantly hacking on weekends and after work. Somebody told me that enjoy it while it lasts, when I get older you're gonna be jaded and it's gonna fade away. I told them they were wrong, but god damn it, they were right, lmao.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

The more I write a CLI, the greater appreciation I have for good CLIs because making a good CLI is hard as fuck.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

Honestly I just wanna build dope shit with dope people. Everything else will follow.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Every black man you know has had an uncomfortable encounter with police. When I was 18, I was visiting family in Atlanta and went to pick up pizza with my cousin. We walk out with pizza in our hands and these cops pulled up on us and forced us to be frisked.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

8 years

Shots fired at #MadeByGoogle .

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Fellas, we gotta have more candid conversations about compensation with our women friends. Recently, a friend of mine came to me and said she was looking for a new job as a Senior Engineer and that she was thinking about asking for $200k in total compensation from companies.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Lmao, who wants to break the news to them.

The Verge

@verge

5 years

San Francisco says it will use AI to reduce bias when charging people with crimes

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

My manager: "So what are your career goals?" Me: "To be known as one of the best dressed software engineers in the game."

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Fuck @Nextdoor for this.

Jenn Takahashi

@jenntakahashi

4 years

Nextdoor in two screenshots:

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

1 year

@JMBooyah I'm sorry you all had to deal with this. What the fuck?

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

Folks asked for interior shots, here you go. There's only 500 of this edition made, I got #403 !

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

My mom forwarded a chainmail explaining the difference between http and https and not to put sensitive information into an unsecured http site. A lone tear of happiness rolled down my face.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

2 years

Native > React Native

Notion

@NotionHQ

2 years

Your mobile app just got a (well-deserved 😅) upgrade. It’s now: - faster — 2× on iOS, 3× on Android - redesigned using native components - easier to navigate, with a new home tab And we’re just getting started!

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

Functional depression, when you excel in your professional life but everything else outside of that feels like it's in shambles

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

2 years

Somebody at Airbnb's engineering team is hooked up to production and doesn't know it.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

Love visiting SF because my laziest NYC outfits are a flex here. 😈

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Pro-Tip: If you praise somebody at work, don't just let them know, find out who their manager is and let them know as well! They are looking to hear this type of feedback about their reports and your feedback is crucial during performance review time.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

7 months

@theneedledrop Did she just say all that and say Yung Lean? Bruh 😭

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Ah yes, ruining your career and reputation to own the libs.

John Sonmez

@simpleprogrammr

5 years

I've said a lot of "odd" things on Twitter recently. Why? Because this, my friends, is how you deal with SJWs. You troll the hell out of them and they have no weapon they can use against you. Stop fighting them with logic. Just say inflammatory, illogical things to them.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

Me pairing with a coworker trying to figure out why our code ain't working

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

GitHub Actions is finally announced! I can finally discuss what me and my teammates have been working on! So excited that it's out there now! #GithubUniverse

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Engineering interviewers at tech companies who don't want to "lower the bar" and believe in meritocracy.

Emoji + Face Mashup Bot

@EmojiMashupFace

5 years

👨‍💻 Man Technologist + 🤡 Clown Face

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

11 months

@9th Let's fucking not.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

8 years

Tired of lack of diversity at conferences? I am! I created this repo as a directory for underrepresented speakers:

GitHub - iheanyi/speakers-who-want-a-platform: A directory of underrepresented speakers for Q&A...

A directory of underrepresented speakers for Q&A panels/conferences/events. No more excuses. - iheanyi/speakers-who-want-a-platform

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

1) Launched @tryseeker , my first side project to make money (~$3k since launching in April) 2) Got a new job at @github as a Senior Software Engineer 3) Paid off my student loans completely and moved into a new apartment with no roommates Damn, what a year.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

If y'all follow me for my thoughts on tech shit, just know that shit is gonna be on hold for AWHILE. It's hard talk about that shit when my people are being indiscriminately murdered by police in America without any punishment.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

As I've gotten older and eventually reached Senior Software Engineer, I constantly think about how little I knew in comparison to when I first started out. Yeah, I could code my ass off, but there's a lot of areas I was lacking.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

And now for the exciting news! I'm really excited to be joining @github next month as a Senior Full Stack Engineer, working on an exciting project with some awesome folks. I'll be working remotely, so I'll still be around NYC. I'm mad excited for this next chapter in my career!

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Here's the difference between me trying to design something myself vs. working with a great designer.😅Highkey may have a design degree, but given that I've always worked as an engineer, my design skills are so weak. Don't try and do it all folks.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

I honestly don't know how people go back to working in an office after being remote. As somebody who is selectively social (I prefer not really communicating/chatting during work hours), going 100% remote has done wonders for my productivity.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

Lmao was at a party in SF and met this brother who is an APM intern at Google. He was like, "Dude, I emailed you when I was a sophomore inhigh school and you gave me mad direction in my life." So weird how the world works, tbh.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Papers signed and money wired for my first investment in a Nigerian startup. 😎

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 months

@popcorneaterman I KNOW 😭

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 months

@CyberCozco Correct. The official number on their support card lmao

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

My mom just called me and told me that they are overnighting me some ribs, spaghetti + spaghetti, okra soup, fufu and jollof rice cause I can't come home and she knows that I probably miss her cooking. 😭 I miss my parents so much man.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

This is the most relatable thing I've seen in a minute lmao

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

8 years

@justkelly_ok @brooklynmag I have thoughts on this because this is how white feminism profits from black culture.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

When you use Postgres for your side projects but MySQL at work.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Today, I turned 27. When I turned 26 a year ago, I... - Was living with a roommate. - Was in a relationship. - Was paying off student loans. - Worked at DigitalOcean. - Had one less tattoo (on my right arm). Needless to say, a year has made a hell of a …

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

writing Go is a form of privilege, and it's one we don't talk about nearly enough.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

I was ordering food today and the cashier was telling jokes with every order. He told me the following joke and it took me the fuck out: "Why does Batman wear a mask that only covers the top half of his face? So the cops can see that he's white." 💀

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

When I was in college, I didn't really understand folks who left their cushy, well-compensated senior FAANG jobs to go work at a startup. Now, having had to make that decision and taking that path, I understand where they were coming from. Growth and potential.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Holy fuck, I saw a shirt tonight that said "Colonialism was a startup" and damn, I felt that in my social.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Got a doggo as my neighbor on my flight. 👀

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

I hope that Discord eats Slack's breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for building communities and all that. Please, stop making me join Slack servers for communities.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

A personal anecdote, my homeboy and I interviewed at Coinbase around the same time and were both extended offers (both declined). When it came to salary, they offered him $10k more than me and we couldn't figure out why. He's a white dude, btw. And we have the same amount of exp.

Nathaniel Popper

@nathanielpopper

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NEW: We were sent a trove of inside data on what Coinbase pays its employees. We had an economist crunch the numbers. The upshot: women and Black employees across the company earned far less than their colleagues in similar jobs.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

This goes past being a "hot take", it's harmful as fuck. It's sexist to assume that a woman's purpose in life is to exist for the male gaze/desire. We need to start actively shunning these type of folks, they shouldn't be welcomed in our industry nor in society.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Bruh, imagine being this whack lmao

CrossChainWolf 🐺

@CrossChainWolf

4 years

If you call yourself a developer and use a mouse for editing code, I just assume you are a junior.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

7 years

I'ma say this once more for tonight and only once. As a PoC, I hate suggestions that I give a cultural/diversity talk over a technical one.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

My tattoo artist hit me up and asked for a picture of my tattoo for his Instagram, since it's fully healed now. I'm still awed by it on the daily.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

2 years

I'm tired of these folks thinking Nobu, Catch, Steak48 are fine dining. You're being sold an Instagram-friendly aesthetic for mediocre food

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

Exactly a year ago, it was my first day at @github . And tomorrow, we'll be sharing updates to my team's product, GitHub Actions. It's been an amazing first year, looking forward to many more with these amazing folks!

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

My little cousin kept on begging me to take her to the beach. She finally got her wish. 😂

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Honestly, we're mad privileged to be paid well in this industry and I sometimes take it for granted. Material shit aside, I'm grateful that my career empowers me to be able to take care of my parents (who sacrificed a lot for me and my siblings) without stress.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

PSA: If you're not gonna say, "You mean Alphabet?" to somebody who works at Google, don't say, "You mean Microsoft?" to somebody who works at GitHub. Thanks, Management

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Real talk, just the way shit has been progressing, I hope 2020 is the year we stop idolizing celebrities. A lot of them are completely just sitting in the comfort of their own privilege when they have more physical and social capital than any of us to help lead change.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

The fact that the COBRA costs for continuing my health insurance (if I wasn't starting a new gig) is $827/month for dental, medical, and vision reinforces my belief that good, affordable health insurance being tied to your employer in America is a freaking scam. 🙃

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

OH LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. CONGRATS TO ALL THE FOLKS AT PAYSTACK!

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

4 years

Stripe acquires Nigeria's Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent by @ingridlunden

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

5 years

It's okay to have a creative hobby and not want to monetize it. Social media / the internet has pushed this idea of pressuring folks to monetize every little thing they do.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

2 years

Quite honestly, if instability and downtime causing customer churn and loss of revenue isn't enough of an impetus, I honestly think it's an uphill battle and is a sign of a much deeper problem outside of culture.

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@kwuchu

3 years

I'll never forgot the asshole at some tech interview that asked me some outdated questions about CSS2 in 2015 to try and weed me out on some gatekeeper shit. Fuck that guy.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

2 years

"Since you've been working remotely for awhile, do you ever want to go back to working in an office?" N 　 O 　　　 O 　　　　 o 　　　　　o 　　　　　 o 　　　　　o 　　　　。　　　。　　　. 　　　. 　　　 . 　　　　.

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@kwuchu

4 years

I just remembered that I'm free to uninstall Pagerduty now 🔥

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

First day of work at @github today. Excited to be working again!

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

6 years

Today is my last day at @digitalocean . It's been an amazing 2.5 years filled with a lot of new friendships, growth, and professional/personal development. I honestly didn't know it was possible to form such strong friendships with coworkers. I'll miss a lot of people here.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

4 years

Even though Christmas Mass was on Zoom this year, my mom still did not come to play. 😂 Stunting on all of them .

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@kwuchu

3 years

I cannot for the life of me understand why a company would rather pay a new engineer more and having to get them up to speed on the systems and lay of the land rather than giving an existing, experienced employee the same compensation / raise. The math doesn't make sense.

Jason Warner

@jasoncwarner

3 years

Just talked to engineer at BigCo. Got 4% raise this yr. New offer at other BigCo: 100% increase in total comp, same level Happens a stupefying amount at BigCos. Can’t/won’t give internal folks bumps but will for new hires. Revolving door for emps between BigCos Straight up dumb

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Helped my little sister negotiate a higher salary. She was hesitant to negotiate because other people told her, "It's already a good offer" but I told her, "Your skills are worth more, so ask for it. Worst case scenario, they say no." She ended up asking for more and getting it.

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