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The Nerd/Marketer Dichotomy

Resend! I am moving back to Buttondown. I will talk about it in another newsletter.

Talk to any nerd about marketing and selling, and you’ll hear common refrains, the classics like:

  • Marketing is gross.

  • ew

  • Marketing? You mean shilling.

With a shudder or smirk to accompany this disgust.

#20
May 1, 2022
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Sometimes Sh!t Happens

Been a long while, again. Sorry y’all.

I got laid off February 4th of this year.

#18
March 16, 2020
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New Job, Great Opportunities

Brief-ish newsletter. I am hoping to do more of these now that things have settled down.

So…I got a job!

#17
November 18, 2019
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Hitting My Stride, Routines, and Applying Again

This is just some thoughts on life and tech and how having a routine helps stave off burnout.

I have a 17 Day Streak on freeCodeCamp which is . My longest streak was 4 and I am really proud of how I’ve stuck with it; I don’t always put in more than one challenge or algorithm, but I and .

#16
June 13, 2019
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Other's Success Can Push You Towards Your Own

Been a looooooong time I suppose.

Last year’s hell is this year’s hangover, or so it seems.

There are periods of intense studying, thinking about problems, filling up my freeCodeCamp consecutive days streak in dark green squares.

#15
May 21, 2019
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My First Module: Lessons

I am publishing this here first before my blog. Let’s see how this works.

Joel Hooks, creator of egghead.io wrote a post on automating new posts for Gatsby with a basic npm script.

I decided that, with a few modifications specific to Gatsby Starter Blog, I would publish it as a package on npm.

First to market? Hardly ever

#13
February 5, 2019
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Retrospective: 2018, For Better or Worse

Another year is gone and everyone is doing their retrospectives; goals they did or didn’t accomplish in 2018 and what they plan on doing in 2019.

I wrote such a piece in the beginning of December and I thought I’d go through some things I didn’t mention in that post.

Some Letdowns

I was not offered a position at DEV. Simply put: I did not perform well. I did initially, but after a month or so, I began to have lapses in judgement that cost me. I couldn’t navigate VS Code with just my keyboard, I wasn’t taking notes so the things I was instructed on doing I would forget.

#12
January 6, 2019
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Preparing for Technical Interviews

Just a heads-up: I’m an egghead.io instructor now! My profile is pretty barren of content but I have some things up my sleeve. The link is in the footer if you want to check it out later.Stay tuned.

I am currently working on interviewing with a pretty great company and this means preparing for technical interviews.

#14
December 1, 2018
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The Brutality of the Job Hunt

Sorry about collecting emails and then not posting anything for a while! This newsletter will explain some things and hopefully give some insights to new developers as well.

Last year around this time I was looking for work and getting some nibbles on the things I put out there. The end of the year ended with an internship at dev.to. I had a blast working with the team despite my shortcomings. I figured by the time I moved, sometime in the summer, I’d have work. I didn’t think that here, in November, I’d still be looking for a permanent, full-time mid-level developer job.

Interviews with Automattic and Microsoft

This summer I had interviews with both Automattic, makers of WordPress.com and Microsoft within a couple weeks of each other.

#10
November 17, 2018
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Critical Linking: Issue #1

A collection of the best React, JavaScript, and front-end development links for the month of September.

This segment of the newsletter is being named what it was originally called eons ago: Critical Linking. I got the idea from Book Riot a couple years ago and decided to use it for my newsletter. If you’ve read it’s essentially the same thing.

#11
September 10, 2018
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Writing Effective Documentation for Your Open Source Projects

I am just beginning to write documentation for my open source projects. I have had some stumbles along the way but I am still learning how to communicate what each app/tool does.

Here are some of the basics that I am learning while drafting my docs:

  1. Have a good and sections to get a user up to speed on installing the tool/s on their local machine for testing and development.
#9
July 29, 2018
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Links of Note Issue #3

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? There are some good things happening right now so I’ve been busy with that. More details as I get them.

#8
July 11, 2018
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Imposter Syndrome and Seeing What Sticks

I have had a pretty eventful couple of weeks!

I mentioned on Twitter about a Google recruiter getting a hold of me on LinkedIn:

#7
June 11, 2018
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What Is React Reconciliation and Why Does It Matter?

In order for React to be as fast as it is, it only needs to update the parts of the DOM that need it. You really don’t need to worry about doing this yourself, but understanding how setState() in React works could be beneficial.

The render() Function

#6
May 23, 2018
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Links of Note

Links of Note

It’s been a bit of a week! From snow to 90°? Wild.

If you haven’t noticed I have switched from TinyLetter to Buttondown.email as they allow writing in markdown as well as other necessary features for free for the first 1000 subs. I am nowhere near that so I am happy to be a part of this.

Without further ado! This week’s

#5
May 8, 2018
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Moving

Well, it’s been a couple weeks, hasn’t it?

There’s not much to say except that I moved, back to my tiny hometown because . The place is technically barren so there are no dev jobs here, especially cutting edge web dev jobs…or…cutting edge dev jobs…or…cutting edge . I hate this place but it is what it is. I digress.

#4
April 17, 2018
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Contributing to Open Source With Little Open Source Experience

Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash
Like many developers, I have used many an open source library/framework for my projects.

#3
March 26, 2018
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Links of Note

Links of Note

notes
#2
March 4, 2018
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Starting Anew: Internships, Learning, and Making Mistakes

#1
February 28, 2018
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