2025 fall retrospective
I'm a staff software engineer! Plus: more international adventures, not giving up on scuba diving, a few medical scares, and reflections on my career so far.
Topic
career
A collection of 10 issues
Overachivement from insecurities
Coping with insecurities in tying up my identity with my grades as a student, and work performance as an adult.
To current humanities students
because it's about the students, not the panelists.
How I non-traditionally entered software development
From coding hobby to humanities college to failures to being paid to do what I do for fun.
Learning Scala
What I recommend in retrospect, and what I did IRL.
Retrospective: March-July
Reflecting on one of the hardest times of my life career-wise -- from a new mid-level developer with 2 years of experience to interim director of technology. No bueno.
How imposter syndrome can be helpful
My ongoing battle with imposter syndrome means I'm...progressing?
Costs of my self-directed career development
As a self-taught software developer.
How I learned programming
My self-taught, tortuous, nontraditional journey into programming as a career.
Code Therapy
Stages of grief... but for learning to code.