Career and Technology

• 10 Things I Don't Know But Want To

  Published January 20, 2026 in AI / Personal / Hobbies / Mental Health / Career and Technology - 13 mins to read

• ZSA Voyager Review

  Published July 19, 2024 in Career and Technology - 6 mins to read

• What I've Got Wrong and Right In My Career

  Published July 18, 2024 in Career and Technology / Bestof - 25 mins to read

• Becoming a Better Programmer: Adventures in C

  Published December 27, 2023 in Career and Technology - 13 mins to read

• Enacting Equilibrium With Your Extremely Efficient Employer

  Published March 19, 2023 in Career and Technology - 8 mins to read

• What I Learned From Applying To 100 Programming Jobs

  Published August 24, 2022 in Bestof / Career and Technology - 13 mins to read

• Good Enough At Go

  Published February 11, 2022 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• 80000 Hours II: Personal Priorities and Pressing Issues

  Published February 7, 2022 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• 80000 Hours Career Planning I: The Beginning

  Published February 6, 2022 in Career and Technology / Effective Altruism - 2 mins to read

• Performance Review

  Published January 25, 2022 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Mentoring III

  Published January 14, 2022 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Feedback II

  Published January 4, 2022 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Algorithms

  Published December 22, 2021 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Advent of Code VI

  Published December 15, 2021 in Career and Technology - 9 mins to read

• Advent of Code V

  Published December 13, 2021 in Career and Technology - 7 mins to read

• Advent of Code IV

  Published December 9, 2021 in Career and Technology - 9 mins to read

• Advent of Code III

  Published December 6, 2021 in Career and Technology - 8 mins to read

• Advent of Code II

  Published December 3, 2021 in Career and Technology - 6 mins to read

• Advent of Code

  Published November 30, 2021 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Extreme Pair Programming II

  Published November 26, 2021 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Extreme Pair Programming

  Published November 24, 2021 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Critical Feedback

  Published November 5, 2021 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Emotional Investment II

  Published October 29, 2021 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Emotional Investment

  Published October 28, 2021 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Mentoring II

  Published October 2, 2021 in Career and Technology - 3 mins to read

• Perfectionism

  Published September 26, 2021 in Career and Technology / Personal - 1 min to read

• RE: An Honest Living II

  Published September 17, 2021 in Career and Technology / Personal - 2 mins to read

• AWS Certified

  Published August 23, 2021 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Revision

  Published August 21, 2021 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Polyglotism

  Published August 18, 2021 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Database Terror

  Published July 14, 2021 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• The Right Team

  Published July 6, 2021 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Pork and Beans

  Published July 5, 2021 in Career and Technology / Hobbies - 1 min to read

• A Necessary Holiday

  Published June 15, 2021 in Career and Technology / Personal / Mental Health - 3 mins to read

• Feedback

  Published June 4, 2021 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Survivorship Bias

  Published May 5, 2021 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Mentoring

  Published March 25, 2021 in Career and Technology - 3 mins to read

• Things That Are More Therapeutic Than Therapy XIII: Healthy Work-Life Boundaries

  Published March 24, 2021 in Career and Technology / Mental Health - 3 mins to read

• Old Site, New Home II: New Stuff

  Published March 20, 2021 in Hobbies / Career and Technology - 4 mins to read

• Breaking Prod

  Published March 17, 2021 in Career and Technology - 3 mins to read

• Old Site, New Home

  Published March 13, 2021 in Hobbies / Career and Technology - 3 mins to read

• Old Code

  Published March 12, 2021 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Big Company Opportunities

  Published March 3, 2021 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Being a Mid Level Dev II

  Published February 10, 2021 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Frustration

  Published February 9, 2021 in Career and Technology / Mental Health - 2 mins to read

• Finishing What I Start

  Published January 29, 2021 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Being a Mid Level Dev

  Published January 26, 2021 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Five Thoughts After Five Days at a New Job

  Published January 22, 2021 in Career and Technology / Personal - 4 mins to read

• New Job Nerves

  Published January 16, 2021 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Noughts and Crosses

  Published January 13, 2021 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Lightbulb Moments

  Published December 28, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Go First Impressions

  Published December 26, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Imposter Syndrome

  Published December 17, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• November 26th 2017

  Published November 26, 2020 in Personal / Hobbies / Career and Technology - 4 mins to read

• One Tab II

  Published November 16, 2020 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• One Tab

  Published November 9, 2020 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Last Days

  Published October 29, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• New Job

  Published October 19, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Quantitative Analysis

  Published October 8, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Hacktoberfest

  Published October 2, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• A Monster Is Born

  Published October 1, 2020 in Career and Technology / Hobbies - 5 mins to read

• Endless Disco

  Published September 30, 2020 in Hobbies / Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Chess Programming: Bitboards

  Published July 18, 2020 in Hobbies / Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Chess Programming II: The Competition

  Published July 16, 2020 in Hobbies / Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Chess Programming

  Published July 15, 2020 in Hobbies / Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Web Accessibility

  Published July 6, 2020 in Career and Technology - 3 mins to read

• New Site II

  Published July 5, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Cache Invalidation

  Published June 3, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Technology as a Force for Good

  Published May 13, 2020 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• TWINT II

  Published April 21, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• TWINT

  Published April 20, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Hackathon Day 1

  Published April 17, 2020 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• 30 Days of Leetcode: Days 6 to 10

  Published April 10, 2020 in Career and Technology - 8 mins to read

• 30 Days of Leetcode: Days 1 to 5

  Published April 5, 2020 in Career and Technology - 8 mins to read

• Think Deeply About Simple Things

  Published April 4, 2020 in Career and Technology - 3 mins to read

• The recipe for success II

  Published March 28, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Don't Take Work Personally

  Published March 26, 2020 in Career and Technology / Mental Health - 3 mins to read

• Folding at Home

  Published March 14, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Puppeteer

  Published March 6, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Travis CI

  Published March 4, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Life Without Wifi

  Published March 1, 2020 in Mental Health / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Publishing blogs is hard

  Published February 6, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Game Jam II

  Published February 1, 2020 in Hobbies / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Teamwork

  Published January 28, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Lunch && Code

  Published January 22, 2020 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Be My Eyes

  Published September 22, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Conference Anxiety

  Published September 21, 2019 in Career and Technology / Mental Health - 1 min to read

• Giving It All Up And Becoming a Farmer

  Published September 17, 2019 in Mental Health / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• exercism.io

  Published September 9, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Facebook Dating

  Published September 6, 2019 in Career and Technology / Personal - 3 mins to read

• Video Game CV

  Published August 30, 2019 in Hobbies / Career and Technology - 3 mins to read

• RSS Has Landed

  Published August 28, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• GCSE Results

  Published August 22, 2019 in Career and Technology / Mental Health - 2 mins to read

• rPi Plans

  Published August 21, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Build All The Things IV

  Published August 7, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Cloudflare vs 8chan

  Published August 5, 2019 in Career and Technology / Personal - 3 mins to read

• So This is What It's Come To

  Published June 26, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Emptying Your Amazon Basket, Forever

  Published June 24, 2019 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Will Hurd the Black Hat

  Published June 21, 2019 in Personal / Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• The Joy Of Spinning Up New Machines

  Published June 18, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Hack The Box

  Published June 8, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Some Overdue Updates

  Published May 27, 2019 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Windows Terminal

  Published May 20, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• The Joy of Starting Over

  Published May 15, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• First Day of a New Era

  Published May 13, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Terry A Davis

  Published May 12, 2019 in Mental Health / Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• The End of a Short Era

  Published May 10, 2019 in Career and Technology / Personal - 1 min to read

• I'm having a baby!

  Published April 25, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Just Checking In

  Published March 28, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• The October Update

  Published March 21, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Retirement as a Career Goal

  Published March 20, 2019 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Evolution vs Design in Software

  Published March 19, 2019 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• 30 Years of the Web

  Published March 12, 2019 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Python Koans

  Published March 8, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Trapped

  Published March 7, 2019 in Personal / Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Industry Gurus

  Published March 4, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Disruption

  Published February 27, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Build All The Things III

  Published February 23, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• RE: An Honest Living

  Published February 21, 2019 in Career and Technology / Personal - 1 min to read

• On the Nature of Problem Solving

  Published February 11, 2019 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• New Ubuntu Installation

  Published February 10, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• New Site

  Published January 31, 2019 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• OS Installation Issues

  Published January 28, 2019 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Game Jam

  Published January 27, 2019 in Career and Technology / Hobbies - 3 mins to read

• Yudkowsky Ambititon Scale

  Published January 11, 2019 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• YouTube

  Published January 5, 2019 in Career and Technology / Personal - 3 mins to read

• Date Jonny

  Published December 20, 2018 in Personal / Career and Technology - 4 mins to read

• Aaron Swartz

  Published December 11, 2018 in Personal / Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Build All The Things II

  Published December 5, 2018 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Build All The Things

  Published December 4, 2018 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Upgrade and Compromise

  Published December 2, 2018 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Missing Social Media

  Published November 21, 2018 in Personal / Career and Technology - 3 mins to read

• OGLAF

  Published October 31, 2018 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• DEFCON II

  Published October 24, 2018 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• CS50 Progress: Week One

  Published October 21, 2018 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Experiences with Jekyll

  Published October 20, 2018 in Career and Technology / Hobbies - 8 mins to read

• DEFCON

  Published October 19, 2018 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Open Source Baby Steps

  Published October 17, 2018 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• CS50

  Published October 14, 2018 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• Egos at the Door

  Published October 13, 2018 in Career and Technology / Personal - 2 mins to read

• Beautility

  Published October 12, 2018 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• Open Source

  Published October 11, 2018 in Career and Technology - 2 mins to read

• We are Live - ish

  Published October 10, 2018 in Career and Technology / Hobbies - 2 mins to read

• The Codecoaster

  Published October 9, 2018 in Career and Technology / Mental Health - 1 min to read

• Jekyll

  Published October 7, 2018 in Career and Technology / Hobbies - 2 mins to read

• Optimism

  Published October 5, 2018 in Career and Technology / Mental Health - 1 min to read

• It's too late for me - save yourself

  Published October 3, 2018 in Career and Technology - 6 mins to read

• Kali Linux

  Published September 29, 2018 in Career and Technology - 1 min to read

• The Dream is Dead II

  Published April 19, 2018 in Hobbies / Career and Technology - 11 mins to read