Tyler Auer

Software Engineer @ Nextdoor | Former Math Teacher

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I am once again enrolled in this class and am just finding out now.

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Doing your taxes is the actual exam from that nightmare where you find out you're enrolled in class at the end of the semester.

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@I_am_Lope @DThompsonDev To move from junior to mid:

Soak up feedback from everyone. Ask "why?" a lot, especially if it feels like a dumb question. Ask to go to meetings where planning happens. Pay attention to how more experienced folks ask questions, approach problems, and spend their time.

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@I_am_Lope @DThompsonDev I think of mid-level eng as someone who can reliable crank out well-defined things cleanly. They don't need support on how to write logic and test it.

But they sometimes need guidance on how to design a more complex project or what to do with ambiguous tasks/projects.

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@kyleshevlin Help!!!

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Tried Go 1.5 years ago, but it was a big adjustment after Python + JS.

Back to Go again while on parental leave and, man, it is such an easy language now that I have a little more of an idea of what I'm doing in the statically typed land.

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If your account/receipt/transaction/whatever IDs include digits and letters. Please don't use 0 and O.

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@DanitaCodes Speaking of git, any fun rebase nightmares yet?

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@DanitaCodes Doing well (especially because I **just** figured out something that was kicking my butt all morning.

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@CodeByAlex It's. So. Rough.

I just had to explain that a small change would take many days and everyone looked at me like I was crazy.

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@DougHammond85 You just have to convince your kids that the music means they're out of ice cream.

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@martinsean Awesome. Let me know if I can help at all. I code full time now.

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@DanitaCodes Like 5 minutes, but only because we get new hires to make a change ASAP to confirm their dev env is set up.

Plus it's fun 😁

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@DThompsonDev Self taught in 19/20 while teaching math in elementary and middle.

Hired for 3mo apprenticeship at Nextdoor in early 21. Stuck around immediately afterwards and have been there since.

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@JustinAion Blankets is so so good.

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It's already hard enough that two words are stuck together sometimes (ex: some times) but "nonetheless" is a monstrosity.

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Messing around with tmux this morning because I'm sick of forgetting which iTerm tab is doing what.

Now I just `hyper+t` and it changes focus to iTerm and opens up the list of windows I can `up` and `down` through.

It's delightful.

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@martinsean Defender can't disrespect you by going under the pick like that.

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@cmmteach @amazon Good instincts!!! That sounds like a scam to me!

Would recommend changing your email password. ESPECIALLY if it is a password you used elsewhere ever.