Future Coder

Half his life is gone in a blur. Time I won’t get back, but in some ways got to experience more fully because we were all home. Two years spent more or less together all of the time. The three of us side by side, at the mercy of the needs of our team. His formative years surrounded by the vocabulary of our tech jobs and transportation terminology. He’s been there in the background for most of our meetings, even stealing the spotlight with some toddler level insight a time or two.

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New Job Loading…

After spending so many years working at one place, I took the opportunity to transition on my timeline and still have two more weeks until I start the new job. It’s giving me the opportunity to feel like I have real closure for the end of that chapter. (Although with my husband still working on my old team, I have to fight the temptation to add my $0.02 sometimes.)

I’ll be going from one of the top 5 senior-most developers to brand new and there’s so much information taking up space in my brain that I have little use for anymore. It feels weird expecting to lose that hard-won knowledge, but there’s going to be plenty to learn in the new system!

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Failure Is A Big Deal

A desk with a laptop, some pens, and a book as the focal point titled "Failed It! How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up" By Erik Kessels

The following is the script I wrote myself for a speech given to a group of 5th-8th grade girls at the culmination of their time at Camp Infinity coding camp, hosted by the Michigan Council for Women in Technology. I can say the actual talk was only about 70% on script, but these are the points I raised. After the presentation I led an activity databending and creating art through hexcode manipulation, using trial and error.

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