very opinionated thoughts on the web, by tiff

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On Being Laid Off: Some Thoughts

> I’ve been dreading writing this one…. I don’t know if you noticed but I removed where I was working from pretty much every place I am on the internet. The reason? I no longer work there. Why? A few reasons. Lack of work The main reason was lack

First Week Feels

This week has been a complete whirlwind of excitement, emails, and downtime. My teammates are wonderful people so far. My supervisor is great as well1. Emails…so many emails When people complained about getting too many emails I didn’t see what the issue was; you’re working and doing

2017 Wrap-up and 2018 Goals

Wrapping up a year is never a thing one wants to do. At least I don’t. 2017 was an amazing year; I built a full-stack app I was proud of with a course and started another. I was a perfect 12/12 months of blogging for the second year

First Feature and Pull Request

I spent a good week working on our CodePen Liquid Tag feature [https://dev.to/twhite/changelog-codepen-liquid-tags-now-live-amj]. It was my first time working with a team on a feature for an app that wasn’t solely mine. I was nervous. But it was really fun. Mac, our Senior dev instructed

The Simplicity of Ruby

When I first started this blog, I was learning Ruby and I loved it. This was before starting freeCodeCamp or Zed Shaw’s Learn Python the Hard Way series 1. When I decided I wanted to program for a living, I found some meetups and went to my first one