Maggie

Software Engineer 🧑🏻‍💻 | Recovering Attorney ⚖️ | Dog Mom 🐶 | Mountain Lover 🏔

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Want to chat?

Schedule a quick meeting with me here: https://t.co/EQod6sFIfm

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Hi! I still exist (just mostly not here). To answer some questions I've gotten:

1. yes, I still do coffee chats,

2. yes, I still recommend 100Devs and company sponsored bootcamps to help get you into tech, and

3. if you have a US library card, go to https://t.co/tFHQJkFxdA

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

They are thankfully prepared for how junior I am and are methodically ramping me up through established repos and new-to-me tech. 🧑‍💻

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

I’m wrapping up my third week as a full time backend software engineer! 🎉

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Very pleased to report that it doesn't seem anyone has been committing crimes in my name since the last background check. Always good to know 😆

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

I'm getting deliveries to my house and a background check just cleared.... I'm hoping to share some good news with y'all soon!

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Is there a way to tell @X that I don't want personal posts from people I do not follow about rapes, murders, and deaths to be given to me in my notifications tab? It's very disconcerting.

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

@LeetCode Second tech assessment of the day done... this one much more like a @LeetCode problem. Still feeling good. Fingers crossed! 🤞🤞🤞

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Y'all I just had a tech assessment that felt more #AdventOfCode than @LeetCode and I'm thrilled to say I'm pretty confident I did great 🎉

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

I just served on the Selection Committee to choose an installer for the @SolarNeighbors 2024 El Paso Solar Co-op, and I'm happy to say we had enough great bids that it was a tough choice!

#ElPaso folks, you can still join the co-op (no obligation!) through the end of the month.

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Ich lerne seit fast zwei Jahren Deutsch!

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Our windows aren’t that soundproof, so I can hear fireworks and dogs barking when the songs switch - and I think my dogs just think that’s part of my obnoxious musical offensive at this point???

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Have dogs that hate fireworks?

Me too!

I’m trying absolutely blasting dance music at them to drown out the noise - not my normal go-to. And it’s a miracle! They’ve only freaked out *once* in the last two hours of it (we’re at 8:40 here).

Highly recommend! 💃

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Just saw the typo. Day 12, not day 10. 😬

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

#AdventOfCode update:

23 stars in! I feel like my theory is fairly solid for both Day 5 Part 2 and Day 10 Part 1, but I'm doing something wrong and I refuse to look up the solutions 😅

Highly recommend the challenge if you haven't joined yet - it's fun!

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

Went back to day 12 for a bit... and got the right answer for *someone else's* input 🥲

#AdventOfCode

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

#AdventOfCode Day 14:

Refactored a few times until what I needed to do to get part 2 to run quickly became clear... but it was very satisfying once I figured it out💡

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

I have a number of Homebrew installs, but I'm looking at installing Anaconda for the install/management of Jupyter and a few other data science-y things. I've heard they don't always play nicely.

Is this a good idea, a neutral idea, or am I about to start a cascade of doom? 🤔

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

On the plus side, I decided to make folders for my repo and once again felt like a CLI wizard by making all of them at once with

$ mkdir Day_{01..25}

Magic! 🪄

[Maggie @mbarnestech]

I am not sure exactly where I'm going wrong, but I am letting go of Day 5 part 2 of #AdventOfCode for now.

On to Day 6!