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writer, señiorita eng @forem, east coast seedling repotted in the pnw. creator of #basecs, #baseds, @basecspodcast, byte sized 🌱🌻 she/her
Aug 23, 2018 8 tweets 3 min read
I was rejected by Etsy one year into my career. At the end of the a long day of interviews, they asked me to code a CS problem (Conway's Game of Life) in a language that I definitely didn't know (PHP). #shareyourrejections After the interview, I went home and read everything I could about Conway's Game of Life. I didn't understand a lot of it. So then I started reading about other computer science problems, hoping one of them would make more sense to me.
Jul 9, 2018 8 tweets 2 min read
I stand by all the sentiments in this thread. 🙌 I've been in this industry for some years now and yet people still assume that I'm very junior because I give talks about how hexadecimals work (apparently that's "too basic" for a conference).
Jul 28, 2017 15 tweets 3 min read
In today's edition of "oh my god everything is so freaking interconnected", I learned a W I L D thing about JavaScript's parseInt function: You're probably already be familiar with how parseInt() works; it converts a string into an integer, based on the radix/base you pass to it.