Technical

• Prompting Experiments

  I’m on vacation, so I’m getting some time to do things that interest me in between time spent with family and recharging. As part of that, I wanted to write a blog on turmoil and how to use it for testing, and I’ve ended up yak-shaving my way into making a preprocessor for mdBook to compile examples that use external dependencies. I say making instead of writing, because I prompted my way to a solution.

• Breaking into tech: Advice on getting your first role or internship

  This is my rough sketch of advice for people trying to get their first role in the tech industry. A lot of this is synthesized and regurgitated from what others have told me, so might be pretty recognizable! Cracking the Coding Interview is a really excellent resource for all of this too.

• Best Practices for Software Engineering (IMHO)

  I feel like I’ve been learning a lot over the past 9 months that I’ve been working full time as an SDE. I want to get some of that understanding down in an open place. Here’s a doc, that will hopefully evolve over time, on some best practices that I’ve come to know about since working.

• Homeserver 1: How to set up virtualisation, the easy way

  So this week while I had some free time I wanted to take an old computer I had and set it up for virtualisation so I could quickly spin up virtual Linux servers for dev environments/projects/whatever came up. I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do at first, so this was a little bit of a process of finding out what I want, and what’s easy to do.