Reminder: you don't have to be amazing to apply. Plenty of mediocre people with impressively high self confidence win everyday because they applied and you didn't. Throw your hat in the ring.
Job Interview Pro tip: When they ask you what questions you have, one of the best questions to ask is "What hesitations do you have about hiring me?" And when you hear the answer, address those hesitations head on as best as you can, ideally with examples.
If you're holding back on writing that blog post because it's "too basic" or "too simple", stop holding back. I've been googling "basic" python questions for hours and it's your blog posts that have been saving me. Your knowledge is valuable. Write.
Looking at my twitter feed, it feels like the longer you've been coding professionally, the less you actually like coding.
For people who've been coding for 10+ years, is this how you feel?
My career in tech started with a $4K loan from my mom and my husband (then boyfriend) being financially stable enough to take care of the bills while I did a coding boot camp.
Money may not be everything, but it sure is damn lot.
If you see someone doing a good job, tell them. Let them know how their good work impacted you, your team. Let them know that you see them. Let them know that they're valued. It'll make their day. We don't appreciate each other enough ❤️
Looking for a developer advocate for CodeNewbie! The job is all about creating programs and content for people learning to code. 3+ years dev advocate experience and 1-2 years professional coding experience.
Full-time, remote. Tag a friend! If interested, slide in my DMs ❤️
Beware of taking advice from people whose goals, values, and world views are fundamentally different from yours. They aren't wrong and they mean well, but often times, it's just not what's best for you. Smile, thank them, and feel free to ignore.
I feel beat up. I’m exhausted. I’m hurting.
We need to know you stand with us, that you’re there for us. Check on your black friends. We need you.
And if you don’t have any black friends, you should look into that.
#BlackLivesMatter
I wanna do a challenge to be more healthy + active, especially for tech folks since our jobs tend to be pretty sedentary.
Challenge is:
1) do something active for 15 mins
2) eat/drink something healthy
Every day for 30 days. Starts tmrw. Comment if you’re in!
#HealthyTech30
Reminder: It’s ok for your goals and priorities to shift with time, experience.
And if they change, you’re allowed to be just as excited and passionate about your new ones as the ones you outgrew.
Finally get to share the good news!
@CodeNewbies
has found a new home at
@ThePracticalDev
. Never thought building a community could be a sustainable business let alone an acquisition. Thank you to all the amazing people who’ve been part of the journey. Excited for what’s next ❤️
If you told me six years so that I’d get to write anything for
@pragdave
, let alone in the epic Pragmatic Programmer book ... so excited.
Thank you for letting me be a part of this ❤️
Anyone else feel existential conflicts of finding meaning when it comes to being a dev?
Once in awhile, I think about the potential power of being a dev vs. the reality of most jobs, and it feels like there's a big gap between what we could do and what we actually do. Thoughts?
Ok, honest question: If everyone hates meetings so much, why are there so many meetings? Is it like, they're actually useful but they still suck? Or is it they're useless and also they suck? In which case, why are there still so many?
A lot of people talk about the importance of a great morning routine, but what's really worked for me is a great night routine.
If you're not a morning person, you might find this helpful, too:
Best 3 decisions I've ever made in no particular order:
1. Learning how to code
2. Marrying Rob
3. Starting CodeNewbie
Runner up: Submitting my first CFP to RailsConf six years ago. Truly changed my life.
What are yours?
It’s finally live! So excited to officially launch
@discohq_
, audio courses on your favorite technical topics.
The first set of courses is “The Machine Learning Bundle” → 8 courses, 10+ hours of content. Check it out! RTs are very much appreciated! 🙏🏾
Alright people, I’m home and happy, so I’m gonna give you a tour of some Ethiopian magic.
Let’s start with coffee: this is what we use to roast the coffee. The actual name is too long and idk how to spell it.
Whenever I'm almost done with a task, like 80% done, I give myself credit for mostly doing the job and then I lose motivation to finish that last 20% and then it takes wayyyyy longer to finish than it should've. Is that just me??
The most important career lesson I learned is that I don't have to be stressed to be productive. I always believed that if you were stressed, it meant you were pushing yourself and that was a good thing.
But I can also calmly, happily, restfully do my work and do it well.
We are excited to offer, for the very first time, complimentary on-site childcare at Codeland! Bring your mini CodeNewbies!
See you in New York!
#CodelandKids
And if you're one of those people who doesn't prepare much, or doesn't need to prepare much, please don't brag about it on stage.
It's incredibly frustrating to spend $1K to attend a conference and hear the speaker brag about how they "threw together their slides that morning"
For people who hate working out but do it consistently anyway, how do you do it? I get really into it for a bit, then it becomes such a chore. Do you eventually learn to love it? Do you hate it and do it anyway? What's your secret?
It feels like true entry-level dev jobs (with literally zero work experience) are hard to come by. If you successfully got yourself a zero-work experience entry level dev job, where did you find it? How'd you get it?
If you're learning to code and you're:
1) a parent/caregiver
and/or
2) working full-time
what's the hardest part? What's your biggest problem?
If you were that person and are currently working as a dev, what *was* the hardest part for you?
I spent so much of my 20s agonizing over turning 30, and now that I'm in my 30s, you could not pay me enough money to go back to my 20s. Life is so much better on this side.
I’ve spent almost a decade helping people break into tech. I've learned a lot over the years and put it together in this new project. Check it out and sign up by Jan 20 to reach your 2023 get-a-job goals ❤️
Every so often, I visit
@lara_hogan
's donuts page () for inspiration. Seeing a list of her awesomeness makes me excited for the things I hope to accomplish.
Lesson: Share your wins. You're not the only one who benefits from acknowledging them.
Also, you should always have questions to ask. I'm always shocked when people don't have any. Like really? You barely know anything about what it's like to work here, you're not just curious to find out more??
Just read the "CSS Utility Classes and 'Separation of Concerns'" article by
@adamwathan
.
Never thought I'd be convinced that utility based css could be better than semantic css but I can't disagree with anything in this post.
So you have a ton of work to do, and you just don't feel like it. You're procrastinating like hell, and you know you'll regret it. What do you do?
Here are some things I do that help me get back to work that you might find helpful:
2.5 years ago I was diagnosed with bipolar. It was a hard diagnosis to accept. It took me a year to fully process it. But the silver lining is that it forced me to take mental health seriously. And I did.
#thread
I remember every racist, sexist joke that was made at my expense. You may not haven’t meant anything by it, and you probably forgot about it moments later. But it stung and it stuck. Use your words wisely. You’re better than that.
You know how experienced/high-profile tech people are always talking about how they don't know anything and they have no idea what they're doing and you kinda roll your eyes, like, yea ok suuuuure.
Believe them.
Most new year's tweets are about our own accomplishments, which is such a great way to reflect and celebrate our wins! I want to try something different -- let's celebrate each other's wins.
What's a win from someone else's year you want to celebrate?
I just asked my mentors if it's wise for me to wear my hair out when speaking to potential investors or if it's safer to keep it in a bun. I hate that I have to ask this question.
Graduating from
@Columbia_Biz
tomorrow! I'm going to get myself a cake and not sure what else to do. How should I celebrate? I'm still social distancing so in-home activity recs preferred!
I'm hiring a Community and Social Media Manager at
@CodeNewbies
! Remote position, working directly with me to build and nurture our amazing community. If you know good people, send them my way! RTs appreciated ❤️
Details here:
Tried to enter "git comment -m" and it didn't work and I was like OMG I FORGOT ALL OF GIT! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING!!! and then realized I was trying to to do "git commit -m" and then everything was fine
But it's fascinating to see that in the absence of information, people will fill in the gaps in whatever way makes sense to them.
Take ownership of your own narrative, because, if you don't, people will write it for you. And the one they write may not be as kind ❤️
This is hard to admit, but I have a huge diversity problem.
Whenever I try to find awesome tech people to speak, be a guest on the podcast, recommend to a position, I always end up with a list that's 75% women.