It's web service that allows you to channel your google docs through a more human-friendly name. So, you link
opendocs.to/your-name/resume (an example link)
to your public resume at docs.google.com/dlkjbalksdfd
It's a simple redirect service, but it just looks nicer, and I think the opendocs.to sounds natural. Got to learn a lot with this one, using Vite/React, Node, Postgres all in Docker, with a local profile that builds nginx inside with the containers, or a prod profile on the server where nginx proxies into the containers.
Anyways, check it out!
Right now, only free tier available as I some last tweaking and checking.
Started working career as engineer almost 20 years ago, then went off to explore. Always kept up technical interests: Mathematics, Physics, Programming, Embedded Software. But unfortunately not super deep. Glad to start at the very beginning and work hard to learn and come up to speed. Can sort of go anywhere, can sort of accept any salary - just eager to build stuff well, instead of being a dilettante.
I'm a STEM teacher with a B.S. in Chem Engineering and several websites and apps online. Looking for more challenging, technical work; willing to learn your tools.
Thanks! For me #1 is really important too. I think just trying, especially with software, is so important. The language is one I'm thinking about - some of my students are self-studying AP CS which is centered on Java, but that language seems more difficult to start building things you can see (as opposed to just HTML/javascript) but maybe I'm just not as versed in it.
Thank you! Yes, I think tangible projects are a really strong approach - I'm trying to figure out a suite of realistic projects, so students can choose the one they most respond to.
At first I smirked when I read your American bit... but then I wondered... what if those were design choices?
For example, what if someone figured out the average sit-time of gasoline in the jerrycan, the average fault rate and leak rate of the lesser seam, and the average production time and lifespan of the jerrycan - then decided the sometimes leakier version was better because it was lighter, more quickly manufactured, etc?
And then perhaps American soldiers were more likely to pilfer gasoline for joy-rides or bartering, or to steal and sell the jerrycans themselves to their liberated friends and lovers, or for some other reason these cans were more likely to be "lost" as the Wikipedia article vaguely mentions - thus, make the can useless without the spanner and funnel, so as to make it a little less tempting for an improper owner to run off with?
Maybe?
Just thinking out loud.
But these questions reminded me just how fascinating everyday objects can be.
Got it! Just bookmarked Codewars, and thank you for the suggestion!
> My company is having a hell of a time finding junior level people who actually know how to solve even the simplest of coding challenges.
If there's any small thing I could try to do for your company - something not too integral nor time-sensitive - I'd be happy to take a shot at it just for the experience. But I don't want to waste your time.
Anyways, thank you again, and best of luck to you!
Of course I'd love that FAANG salary, but I guess the only way I'll know if I'm good at algos is to give them a shot. I think I'm smart - but, hell, almost everybody on this site blows me away with how smart they are.
However, last night I opened up that leetcode stuff - and I got lost in it! Just like some of my old physics problems, they're so interesting to puzzle out. And, granted, interest isn't enough, but it's still a nice indicator. I just had fun, just fun, going over one of those algo problems last night.
Thank you again for giving me so much of your time!
What's that old quote? "Half the work is showing up" or something like that. You just did what they asked and - boom - got the job. Well done! I'm tucking that one away under "life insights".
Thank you for taking the time to answer that question.
> Yeah! It's fun using my brain to make a living, and most importantly, I work a lot less than I had to before, for a lot more money.
Wow, these resources are great! Thank you so much. I have these bookmarked - I want to finish some other projects and then lay out a plan that will hopefully be best; of course, "no plan ever survives first contact" but it's still useful.
Did you put together the github site for "AI from scratch"? I can't find an "About" page - whoever's work it is, I love it.
Thank you again for pointing me in this direction.
What an encouraging comment - and thank you so much for looking at that RLC repo! It's riddled with mistakes, to be honest. I took it on as a learning project, speaking of which...
> Instead I kept practicing and studying until I was good enough to hire for a mid-level position.
May I ask how you demonstrated how good you were to the hirer? I mean, when you were studying were you producing side-projects, contributing to github repos, going through a course that gave you grades? I hope this question isn't rude. I'm not sure how to jump over the junior dev role without my resume being auto-filtered out because of lack of experience, if that makes sense.
Anyways, congratulations! I hope you're liking your work in web development, because your story is really encouraging.
Thanks! The idea of one website to best showcase all of one's web programming skills seems like a useful puzzle - I'm going to mull over how I might do that. Thank you again!
Thank you for being so specific! Numbers and time-frames are really helpful for me - even if I wiggle them, or miss them, they are bench-marks in my mind. For example, I would have no idea how much leetcode to practice; but you've given me a nice ballpark and a book to start from. I'll see if I can get my hands on that book while here in China! Thank you again
It's web service that allows you to channel your google docs through a more human-friendly name. So, you link
opendocs.to/your-name/resume (an example link)
to your public resume at docs.google.com/dlkjbalksdfd
It's a simple redirect service, but it just looks nicer, and I think the opendocs.to sounds natural. Got to learn a lot with this one, using Vite/React, Node, Postgres all in Docker, with a local profile that builds nginx inside with the containers, or a prod profile on the server where nginx proxies into the containers.
Anyways, check it out!
Right now, only free tier available as I some last tweaking and checking.