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Stay Home, Stay Grounded

Stay Home, Stay Grounded

I'm writing this post to reflect on the things that got me through the last few months, not to prescribe a one size fits all approach to dealing with the state of the world.

Engineering Discipline

Engineering Discipline

When you're first learning to code, you'll write a lot of code really quickly. Whether it's a personal blog, school assignment, or a side project; you've got total control over the whole project and you just go. One of the first things

Opportunity as a Service

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Opportunity as a Service

For the past 6 months I have been mentoring Nathan, an intern on my team from the Year Up program. Nathan joined us in September from the Year Up program out of Bellevue College.

Make Your Terminal Work For You

Make Your Terminal Work For You

One of the things I learned from reading Atomic Habits [https://www.nateliason.com/notes/atomic-habits-james-clear] was the importance of 1% improvements. It can be very hard to find the single actions that will make you 20% or 30% better at your job, but if you can find small areas

What You Do Is Who You Are

What You Do Is Who You Are

With all of my free time thanks to COVID-19, I've been doing a lot of walking and listening to audiobooks. Without my daily commute, I've declared podcast bankruptcy [https://twitter.com/blowdart/status/1243254170091524096?s=20] and mostly pivoted to listening to audiobooks on my walk

Shipping my first npm library

Shipping my first npm library

At Microsoft, my team is responsible for building the tools that help manage and maintain the company's enterprise network. Our team has about 10 developers and almost as many active products. The Problem Historically, this team did not have many UI engineers. Most applications weren't even

Tyler's 2020 Goals

Recently I published my 2019 Goals [https://dev.to/airercode500/my-goals-for-2019-425c] and my retrospective on those goals [https://www.twalker.dev/revisiting-2019-goals/]. Now it's time for my goals and intentions for 2020. Cook more, Eat less I started working with a personal trainer at the end of August

Starting Gyms in the New Year

I want to follow up on a tweet thread [https://twitter.com/airercode500/status/1212091013176557568?s=20]. One of my 2020 goals is to post more content on this site, so why not get started a little early? You're allowed to take up space When I first started

My Goals for 2019 (Revisited)

Last year I wrote an article [https://dev.to/airercode500/my-goals-for-2019-425c] on dev.to about my goals for 2019. I was introduced to formal goal setting at SAP Concur. Previously, I just worked and hoped good things happened. At the new year I applied the practice to my personal life,

Getting Lost in Washington State

Since starting Microsoft I've come to the crazy realization that not everyone was born in Washington State! I've definitely taken a lot of the adventures I grew up on for granted. This state is a really special place and I want to share some of my

Interviewing your Interviewer

When you're looking for your first job as a software engineer it's easy to jump at the first offer you get. During my first big job hunt, I'd interviewed and met with a lot of different companies. Most of the people I met were