Jake Morales

Background: CS Degree. Robotics Instructor for Kids. Self-taught Web Dev. Familiar with JS and currently learning Go.
All views and opinions are my own. He/Him.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

Plant trees! #betterplanet

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

IC2 is the "software engineer 2" level at @sourcegraph, which is not atypical to have someone with 1-3 years of experience do.

At companies where relatively entry-level engineers are given meaningful ownership: everything moves much faster.

https://t.co/w4L8DXIgAg

[erinmikail.bsky.social✌️ @erinmikail]

don't tell me how much you lost in crypto

don't tell me how web3 is the future

tell me what you're planning to do to protect my rights now that roe v. wade has been overturned

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

How do we expect people to adopt DeFi when they can’t even handle $6 gas fees.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

@dan_abramov Top 3 most impactful Programming books?

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

@BekahHW Scratch or VEX Robotics programming

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

Plus, now that I have the practice, I’ll finish the task quicker next time. As your skill set expands, you become more valuable to the team. In the long term, that’s more efficient than having the Senior eng repeat the same task and not grow.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

As a Junior engineer, I used to think, “Isn’t it less efficient to give me a task that would take me 2 days while a Senior eng would take 2 hours?” The truth is that the Senior eng has 10 other things to do and that’s 1 less task off their plate.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

It’s actually more efficient this way, because not every task requires the high skills and high salary of a Senior eng. Also, the Senior would probably get unhappy having to do many relatively unchallenging tasks.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

I thought using these would help me get my first dev job, but I have a feeling they’re not that impactful.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

You don’t have to over-engineer your side projects.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

You probably don’t need GraphQL, kubernetes, an event-driven architecture, an extensive CI/CD pipeline, etc. These are tools that make sense in big organizations, but are usually overkill for small hobby projects.

[surojit @surojit]

COVID situation in India is extremely dire. Thanks to Sandeep for setting this up. Urging the global crypto community to help.

For every RT, I’ll donate $50 to fight COVID in India, up to $50k. #cryptovscovid

[Andrew Clark @acdlite]

Me promising to address your feedback in a follow up PR

[Kristen Arnett @Kristen_Arnett]

me telling my computer i’ll update everything tomorrow

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

Haven’t heard of any YouTubers doing reviews of coding bootcamps. I bet those videos would be surprisingly popular.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

@joncalhoun Go at X company

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

@MelissaZhang13 I recommend starting off simple. Learn basic html/css/is first, then the tools/frameworks will come later. The Net Ninja has great YT tutorials for beginners https://t.co/VYwvnEt25E

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

Another reason (why performance is not the #1 priority) is that engineers are more expensive than servers.

Especially in the current state of cloud computing, it's easier to scale your infrastructure than to scale your engineering org.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

In writing code, I used to think performance outweighed other priorities.

Now, I realize that velocity is more impactful.

Shipping new features quickly with decent code is more effective that writing the perfect code. Things can change and your code might not be there tomorrow.

[Jake Morales @jakem_dev]

@ElizaLowercase PTSD