Doing this again! Are you a woman who is a junior coder, or aspiring to be one? Go write a tech blogpost, or dig up one you’ve written, and I’ll RT it to 40,000 people! Reply w title/description & link. Must focus on code or a tech stack & tweet can’t contain self deprecation.
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Fun tip: If you’re looking for work, write a sentence about that in the post with a link to your website/LinkedIn/contact info. Even if you’re not actively looking you should always plug a promotion of yourself and make it easy for folks to get in touch cause you never know.
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Now, a request of everyone: If you have the time/energy, I would like you to read some of the posts in this thread and reply with encouraging, uplifting comments.
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Got a good question in the DMs: “Will writing about an ‘easy’ topic peg me as a beginner, making it harder to advance or get the best offer possible? How can I make the best impression?” My advice:pic.twitter.com/iwWJgI1Kez
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Replying to @sehurlburt
Marketing-for-developers pro-tip which is quite in line with your advice: whether advice is perceived as "basic" or not depends not merely on the advice but on the *packaging* for the advice, such as e.g. the motivation statement for why you're Xing and the way you position it.
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Example (to pick a post I was considering actually writing): there exists a queuing system called NSQ and a way to deliver information to web browsers called WebSockets. Tutorial on hooking but NSQ to a websocket: "feels basic" "Architecting real-time in-app chat", though...
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Replying to @patio11 @sehurlburt
For giving people additional motivation to write things that feel "basic" to them: I'm ~15 years into my career and had just gotten done scratchwriting a stock exchange when I needed to hook NSQ to a websocket, and ended up losing ~3 days due to that article not existing.
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And it's, conceptually speaking, not that hard? One could totally accomplish that in year 1 of your career. Had one hypothetically done that, despite it feeling basic to oneself, one would be at a position of material advantage vis a) my ability to do it & b) the entire Internet.
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Jonathan Howard Retweeted cabbibo
Also brings to mind people needing Stack Overflow for a bug, only to realize they asked it themselves years ago :)https://twitter.com/cabbibo/status/722093260101935104?s=21 …
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