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@kefimochi

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mid eng, “hyperactive wondering weirdo” 🏳️‍🌈✨ etsy

San Jose, CA
Joined June 2018
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@kefimochi
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I'M OFFICIALLY EMPLOYED FOR MY SECOND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ROLE!!!! 🎊🎊✨ Took ~4 months and ~200 applications. Starting on Monday ^-^
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@thedigitaldash_ Similar approach is what Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents book recommends 👏 Like emotionally distancing yourself and stop expecting to heal through them changing, as no matter the effort or no matter the times we take them seriously they’ll still disappoint
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@kefimochi
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Speaking poorly of your former employers is impolite? You know what else is impolite? Having a toxic culture that leaves you with fucking work-related trauma.
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How do you code so well?
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@kefimochi
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I’m officially a US citizen, WOO!! ✨
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@kefimochi
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This never gets old 😌
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Does anyone have inspirational dream setup pictures similar to this? 👀✨
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@kefimochi
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“No agenda, no attenda” my eng manager about meetings 🤣
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if you say “html” three times in a mirror, a dude will appear and rant that it's not a programming language
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Thinking about coding vs Coding
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“Can’t decide what fun hobby to do after work, so hyperfocusing on Twitter for 5 hours it is!” is way more common than I’d like to admit 😭
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This is most definitely NOT a 1-2 hour take home project 🙃 Imagine being that delusional.
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@kefimochi
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Got promoted to midlevel engineer, LET’S FUCKIN’ GOOO 👏✨🔥
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Do people actually use Vim as an IDE?? Why? Do you like hurting yourself?
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Unpacking trauma stickers are finally here ✨👏 Word is they help you heal the past, don’t miss your chance to grab one!
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I Don’t Know What I’m Doing As A Service
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How many job applications did it take you to get your first developer role? I'll start! 🙋‍♀️✨ Took me around ~200-250 applications, ~50 HR screenings, ~20 technical phone screens, and 3 onsite interviews.
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I tweeted something during a meeting and my manager liked the tweet
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Thrilled to announce that I am officially going to be a Jr Software Engineer as of November 18th!✨🎊 Y'ALL I DID IT!!! The friendliest small team located in downtown Burlingame with a six figure salary... all my dreams coming true in one day!
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the coder the code 😌
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Some engineers never worked service jobs or lived paycheck-to-paycheck.. and it shows.
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@kefimochi
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Attention!
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I sincerely hate how interviewing is a whole different skill from doing the actual job. Heartbreaking to see competent and qualified engineers being passed on bc of this 💔
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Bashing your mechanical keyboard while writing JavaScript won't make it strongly typed
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Joining a tech company with legacy codebase be like:
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Not sure I’ve ever seen a better sign in a museum
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Oh yeah? You're a software engineer? Name every git command possible.
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I am devastated..
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@kefimochi
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A reminder to y'all 🙃
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Developers will literally name their variables foo/bar/baz instead of going to therapy
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Dang those are some future salary #goals 😳
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@kefimochi
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🌟 I'm looking for my next role 🌟 - Interested in full-stack or backend - Bay Area or remote - Go, NodeJS, Java, TypeScript, React/Redux, or whatever else you have going on. Will quickly pick it up on the job! Want me on your team? This is your chance! RT for reach 🧡
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People saying "you can't call yourself a software engineer without a degree" fail to realize that if my fucking job title says "software engineer" that's what I'm calling myself 🖕
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@kefimochi
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Oh hey, today is my first anniversary of being employed as a software engineer 🎉✨
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You're more than green squares on GitHub 🌱
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Did you ever have a burnout that lasted multiple years where you lost all the excitement towards tech and anything code-related? How did you over come it?
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Don't sacrifice readability for less lines of code.
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How often does your imposter syndrome insist that you’ll get fired soon? 👀
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Those of you who still have mental energy to work on side projects, how do you do it? Seriously. Tell me your secrets!!
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Y'all ✨ Just received glittery DevOops stickers! What do you think?
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Officially 3 years as a Software Engineer woo! ✨
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Alright y'all, I got some good news and bad news: - The bad news is I'm no longer interviewing. Sorry you missed an opportunity to work with me this time around 😘 - The good news is that I have 2 exciting offers at hand!! Hooray 🎉✨
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First paycheck on the new job 😎
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Trying to get yourself familiar with a large codebase on your new dev role
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You don't need math to be a successful software engineer. You don't need math to be a successful software engineer. You don't need math to be a successful software engineer. You don't need math to be a successful software engineer. 🌱
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The assumption that people who work remotely are less productive pisses me off af.
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Tech folks who immigrated to the US and started a family, do you teach your kids your first language? You know, like C++ or Java
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Developers that actually know what they are doing terrify me 😳 Where can one get such knowledge and confidence??
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Got rejected by a company I really liked after going through the whole interview process. What a way to ruin the rest of this week 🥴
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✨ Available for Hire ✨ I'm a full-stack engineer with >1 year of professional experience, mainly focusing on technologies such as React/GraphQL/NodeJS/TypeScript. Is your team compassionate & supportive? Does uplifting others bring them happiness? Then let's chat in DMs!👋🌱
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Women in tech are literally so easy to please. Give us fancy mechanical keyboards and fundamental human rights. That's only two things.
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I have a CSS joke and I couldn't stop from centering it around myself
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This is how mid Software Engineer looks like 😌
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Just signed my job offer!! 🥰
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I’m thrilled to officially announce that starting today I'm now a part of @Eventbrite crew, joining on 4/20 heh ✨🎉 Looking forward to this new chapter of my life, and working closely with @kylewelch and the team!
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CDC now recommends pushing to prod right before end of the year holidays
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You know what's better than self-documenting code? Documented code.
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Have you tried turning us-east-1 off and on again?
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Pair programming with my new coworker ☺️
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It costs 0 dollars to not be a condescending asshole to hard working entry-level devs 😤
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Honestly the biggest thing I'm noticing competent Senior engineers do is being open to comprimise on technical solutions & listening to all members of the team regardless of leveling.
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just because you sit in one place while coding, doesn't mean your code is statically-typed
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If I leave tech would you still be interested in my journey?
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Upcoming sticker ✨
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Hi if you would be thrown into a new codebase, new programming language, new environment as a junior engineer with management ghosting you for days... Do you think you'd be able to succeed? 🙂
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The ULTIMATE imposter syndrome sticker is finally here 👏✨ Don’t miss your chance to grab one!
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Apparently even after 1+ year of working as a software engineer one is not a "real developer" 🙃 Ugh can y'all stop already?
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YUP THE ENTIRE TEAM IS LAID OFF 💀
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5 things every developer should know in 2021: - Don't assume generic "developer" == dude - Do call out bullshit when you see it - Don't assume positive intent on harmful behavior - Don't DM "hi" without stating intentions - Do uplift others, especially ones less privileged
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Suddenly everything feels more real 💅 Beyond excited to start on Monday!
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Signed one of the offers, now things are official!! 🌱✨
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And here’s why I have an emoji in my name on LinkedIn ✨
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JavaScript proudly showing off its offsprings: Vue, React and Angular
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bomboclaat
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You're not a machine. You can't be 110% productive at all times, and that's okay.
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My US citizenship interview is going to be on December 20th which is a lot sooner than I expected 😱 In less than a month I might officially be American omg
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The individual choice doesn't hold any weight if there's no system in place to uphold it.
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I believe that focusing on individualism - "recycle! go vegan! vote! boycott Amazon!" - is one of the biggest problems with the left today. Change my mind on any of the above I really want to hear a good argument.
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It’s hilarious to me how many companies throw junior engineers into bad unsupportive environments and then reach a conclusion “guess that didn’t work out, won’t be hiring juniors again” instead of fixing their own internal bullshit 🙃
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Made a meme 🙃
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80% of tech Twitter is telling the same bad jokes on repeat.
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So fucking HYPED, crushed the next level ticket at work on writing a custom Babel plugin 😎✨ As a jr eng completed it with no guideance or asking for help by poking around open source Babel code & fucking around until finding out!
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sorry i didnt mean to like your tweet 20 seconds after u posted im just unemployed
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Seriously, I’m hilarious 😂 #botw
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Tired of seeing work commits missing from your personal GitHub contribution graph? Well, look no further! 🚀✨ Introducing my new side project!
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@Dragonmongamer @slogbuzz @rottewange I personally interpreted that quote as about the tv show addiction & her dragging Greg deeper into shared depression & grief. Like he wants to get better while she wants them to suffer together. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t the first time Amethyst transformed 🥲
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Repeat after me, I won't feel bad for being imperfect in a technology I just started learning today. It takes time to improve and become proficient. I won't 👏 feel 👏 guilty!
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If you refer to a generic developer as "he", you automatically lose 50 points of respect. I don't make the rules 🤷‍♀️
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I wish software engineers had to pass some kind of empathy test before being permitted to enter the field :/
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Not Google recruiter reaching out after they just laid of 12k employees 💀
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Therapy costs money, oversharing on Twitter is free
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Can’t believe that today is my second anniversary as a Software Engineer!! 😱😱✨
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I'm fully confident in my offer choice now. Will be signing soon ✨😌
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It’s easy to get TIED UP with all the JavaScript tech 😏
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@cassidoo One thing I like about remote work is the fact that I don't need to hide my crying in the office bathroom 😭 Now I can cry anywhere I want. In bed, in shower, on a walk, deep in my soul, all the options!
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I'm convinced that people who own a keyboard that's broken into 2 seperate parts specifically bought it in order to place a plate in the middle 👀
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Lets normalize making mistakes as part of the growth process in tech, tell me about the time you messed up badly but still recovered!
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Long variable names >>>> variable names that give zero context as to what they're holding, like "data" or "temp"
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Webflow wants to interview me, seems like a promising start for the job hunt! 👀
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It's incredibly liberating to know that you just want to be an average software engineer instead of striving to become the Next Big Thing 😌 To each their own, folks!
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Anyone else often gets mentally blocked when trying to read documentation? 🙈 It's so much easier for me to follow YouTube talk/tutorial on the subject matter than force myself to focus on reading.
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Someone at the Apple store asked me where do I work, and I felt so proud to say "I'm a Software Engineer at Eventbrite" 🥰
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I hate feeling like I want to do everything and nothing at the same time :/
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