A response to Jeff Atwood’s viral article — I cannot put into words how much I dislike this article, but it was written by Jeff Atwood — he is one of the most successful, universally loved people in the entire tech industry, whereas I am a random person with a blog and a few hundred followers, in contrast…

I still can’t figure out word search, so here’s a meme problem — I had an interview that didn’t go super well, in which the interviewer asked me a LeetCode medium called word search — what I found interesting here was that “Word Search” does not really fit any of the 14 Coding Patterns. It could be beneficial to think of 2D arrays…

Technical/coding, technical without coding, behavioral, system design, take-home coding challenge, and Squid Game — If there is anything I have learned from my years living alone and cooking, it is that you can do something for a very long time and still not be very good at it — the same way you can cook for years but only know how to make a…

A man known for his tech AND his ideas — Pieter Hintjens was probably best known for A Protocol For Dying, a blog post he wrote after learning he had metastatic cancer and only a short amount of time to live. …

The series has returned! Yaaaaaay — Like last time, for the sake of personal pride I will not tell you when this story took place. Maybe it was right after college, making it was during college, and maybe it was last Friday. …

A riff on all the “tech hiring freeze” articles — The title is, of course, hyperbole — I once worked with a woman named Maria, and she did NOT want to be a software engineer so she became a product manager instead. Moving on… The elephant in the room right now is the tech hiring freeze, something that started with…

And how it matters for more than just salary — If you clicked on this, I imagine you were probably looking for a post about salary negotiation…and I do not want to make you feel like you wasted the click. So I watched a Mayuko video about it, and a Kevin Naughton video on it, and read a blog post…

Answering the question: Is Pramp really worth paying the price of $0.00? — About two weeks ago I had my first experience with Pramp, and it went almost as poorly as it could have: We didn’t have the mock interview because the system did not work. For the record, I am not sure why this happened — maybe my connection was bad, maybe…

A single comment that made me question why I started this to begin with — I wrote a blog post about HTML, and that was my first mistake — HTML is one of the most controversial things I have seen covered in tech, but to my surprise the post was met with scathing criticism who dislikes frontend frameworks and argues that people who develop frontend…