Tag: working in tech
Posts about lived experience, expectations, realities, or reflections on a career in tech
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3–4 minutesCode, Craftsmanship, and Being “Star-Struck”
A regular user of one of my platforms met me and he was “star-struck”, and the parallels of sewing and coding.
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3–4 minutesNaming conventions in software: consistency vs. standards
What’s more important: sticking to global standards or maintaining internal consistency?
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1–2 minutesThe power of unexpected questions
A small interaction on a factory shop floor taught me that hierarchy can quietly erase humanity.
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5–7 minutesI wrote impossible queries just to avoid an awkward conversation
I spent hours working around a broken design because I was afraid of a 10-minute awkward conversation.
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4–7 minutesHow I treat “my” AI
How I choose to interact with AI says more about my values than the tools themselves.
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2–3 minutesTechnical debt lessons from software engineering
Technical debt isn’t a code problem. It’s a series of human decisions we keep postponing.
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1–2 minutes3 things I’ve learned after working in engineering for 11+ years
Three lessons I only learned after starting work, and wish someone had said out loud earlier.
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2–3 minutesWhat being a software engineer really is
Being a software engineer involves far more conversations than code, and that surprises a lot of people.