Nov 7, 2021Handling Rejection, Burnout, and Your Own Negative ThoughtsFlashback to June 2021 and I’m getting ready to go to my cousins wedding up in wine country here in California and I get an email from a recruiter at a FAANG company saying she wanted to ‘chat’. …6 min read6 min read
Sep 2, 2021Preparing For a Technical Interview at a FAANG CompanyHowdy! Here’s how I’ve been preparing for an interview at my dream company as a bootcamp grad As a bootcamp grad there’s so much you have to overcome when making your first break into tech. Don’t get me wrong bootcamps do an amazing job helping people transition into a different…5 min read5 min read
Aug 25, 2021System Design Interview?Howdy! Picture this. You’ve been studying relentlessly algorithms and data structures. You have crushed LeetCode/HackerRank problems day and night and you’ve paired with your friends and have set up mock technical interviews. You think you got this technical interview in the bag, but all of a sudden you’re told you…3 min read3 min read
Aug 18, 2021Things I Wish I Knew 6 Months AgoHowdy! Over the past few months I have learned many things. I won’t say I was naive when I finished bootcamp, but I was kinda naive. I think my biggest miscalculation was how hard it would be to be a freelance web developer. By this I mostly mean all the…4 min read4 min read
Aug 13, 2021404 Motivation Not FoundHowdy! How do you stay motivated through the whole job search process? For the past week and a half, I feel like I have been thrown every obstacle possible and all of it finally caught up to me today. At times, it’s easy to wonder what is this all for…3 min read3 min read
Aug 7, 2021Now Playing… pt. 2Howdy and Happy Friday! So, last week I created a Spotify clone, if you wanna read about it you can find it here. I left it with the desire to make it more dynamic. So, this week I did just that. Now before I get started yet again I will…3 min read3 min read
Jul 29, 2021Now Playing…Howdy! This week I worked on a Spotify clone! I had so much fun creating this project! I used React and I did a little something different. Instead of using Redux to store the data from the Spotify Web API, I used Context API just to try it out and…4 min read4 min read
Jul 25, 2021A Year in ReviewHowdy! This Tuesday will mark a year from when I first started my change in career paths from mechanical engineering to software engineering. I’d like to cover some things that I have learned and wish I had known sooner. Computer Science Fundamentals: I think this should be stressed more in…3 min read3 min read
Jul 17, 2021A week in the life…Howdy! This week has been so busy for me and as stressful as it may have been I am blessed that I am even getting the opportunity to be taking technicals, and improving my coding and algorithm skills. As well as taking time to still personally code for myself. Let’s…4 min read4 min read
Jul 7, 2021Creating a Google Search CloneHowdy everyone! I’ve been debating wether or not to get a little personal in today’s blog post. However, I can’t get behind this post becoming the coding-blog version of a recipe blog that has a huge tangent before getting to the main point. I will say though, if you’re having…3 min read3 min read
