I'm honestly going through a hard time right now. Someone I met in a coffee shop heard about what I was going through and told me to try writing in a gratitude journal. I used to hate those. I tried one back in 2016, and it made me feel guilty for fe...
I am a software engineer with 6 years of experience in tech—really 12 years in a way if you count data science. My previous work was in public health and reproductive justice. Work where the importance of empathy is quite obvious. When I started soft...
Leetcode Felt Pointless, Until I Learned System Design.
🚀 Why is My Progress So Slow in My Career?
Unlearn Imposter Syndrome + Reverse Tech Hierarchy Brainwashing With Me
Part 1: 💻 Stuff That Doesn’t Make Someone a Better Programmer Than You (Even if they made you feel like it did) I was thinking back to a programming learning environment I utilized when I still wasn’t calling myself a software engineer yet, but prob...
Why we ignore “lower-order terms” in Big O Notation So I have a friend from 100Devs who reached out to me because she’s leveling up and getting ready to start her data structures and algorithms journey via Leetcode. She asked me to show her how to do...
I Brought My Big Ass Saxophone Home Every Day in Middle School—And That’s Why I’m a Software Engineer Today
Transferable skills of Ride Share Drivers
