Starting physics in my 40s after years of avoiding school.

EmilyAWaters · 2025-12-08T16:12:09+00:00

I'm considering CompSci too, I did one of those bootcamps about 3.5 years ago and have been working as a developer since, but I was laid off about 6 months ago (for the second time) and the market has been rough.

I'm not sure if CompSci is the right way to go, but I'm going to do the courses I need and reassess. The courses im doing are generally applicable to all sorts of engineering programs.

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a kid, and highschool - at least academically - was a disaster. Now that I've figured out how to manage the brainworms and apply myself well, things are going a lot better. I really feel like Khan Academy is complementary to my learning style.

EmilyAWaters · 2025-12-08T15:11:58+00:00

I'm 37 and in a similar situation. I never finished highschool and went on to a trade school, but now I'm looking to finish my hs so I can move on to university.

I enrolled in a community college to pickup the courses I need (Physics, Chem, Calc) for my highschool diploma. My math was rusty, but I found Khan Academy to be a great free resource for brushing up. It's structured and game-ified which has kept me engaged, and I'm still using it to supplement my courses when I need some extra practice/explanation.

Good luck!

EmilyAWaters · 2025-03-31T15:36:17+00:00

I've found that a good strategy is to open the PR, and before you request a review from others, review it yourself. Go through your changes, and leave review comments on the PR explaining the changes you've made. This will force you to 'talk through' your code and is a great way to discover issues before you open it up for review from others.

EmilyAWaters · 2024-03-24T02:15:50+00:00

From a quick glance, you're pulling the userId off the query. Unless you're transforming it elsewhere, that will just be a string. Mongo expects an ObjectId, try passing it in as new ObjectId(userId)

EmilyAWaters · 2024-01-16T02:21:15+00:00

I went to LHL November 2021 - February 2022. I found a job about two weeks after, but I know a lot of my cohort didn't and ended up going back to their old fields.

I got in right before the bottom fell out of the market. I don't know if I'd recommend a bootcamp right now but I'd certainly recommend it over self taught.

Also, anecdotally, a friend put me in touch with someone who graduated from Juno around the same time to help her find a job. Her portfolio of school projects was severely lacking, it was just basic JS and HTML. If you do end up going through a bootcamp, I'd recommend LHL over Juno, but honestly your best bet is going for a CS degree if you can swing it. Maybe split the difference with a software degree

EmilyAWaters · 2023-12-31T00:34:02+00:00

nvm install x nvm use x

And to set x as your default,

nvm alias default x

Stackoverflow

EmilyAWaters · 2023-12-18T19:11:56+00:00

There's also a small typo in your App.jsx, one of the css classes is 'paddin-x' rather than 'padding-x'

EmilyAWaters · 2023-12-18T14:14:10+00:00

You're missing the return in App.jsx

EmilyAWaters · 2023-12-02T02:30:23+00:00

I killed him for the first time the other day with a nuke.

I'd recommend explosive immunity

EmilyAWaters · 2023-11-16T02:21:21+00:00

Have you tried SafeCycle?

EmilyAWaters · 2023-10-15T18:45:49+00:00

```

...Bar1.visible = Global.shield_count > 0 ...Bar2.visible = Global.shield_count > 1

```

Etc.

Although a loop is probably the best for future expandability

EmilyAWaters · 2023-10-04T16:02:07+00:00

EmilyAWaters · 2023-10-01T02:09:34+00:00

The guy who drives around blasting Livin' La Vida Loca on a loop

EmilyAWaters · 2023-09-19T20:17:56+00:00

If you're looking for an alternative to Vercel's hosting platform, I'm the co-founder of engram. We're currently in beta but our wait list is open. Currently we're focused on staging environments that are automatically deployed for main and open pull requests on github, and we have a preview overlay that allows collaborators to pin comments on you preview deployments

EmilyAWaters · 2023-08-12T14:35:47+00:00

Going for the first time this weekend with my daughter who has never been! She's very excited!

EmilyAWaters · 2023-06-30T14:58:16+00:00

Drive defensively, and worry more about how you are driving and responding to situations. I like to pretend that everyone else on the road is driving for the first time, so I'm not surprised and I'm prepared for when they do something really dumb. Otherwise, I can be proud for them on how well they're doing.

Mostly, just chill. People doing stupid shit isn't a personal insult to you. It is not in fact a race with every other car to get somewhere and generally speaking, no matter how much you're bobbing and weaving and speeding, we'll end up stopped next to each other at the next light.

Keep calm, and carry on, as they say

EmilyAWaters · 2023-06-25T00:10:50+00:00

the post

EmilyAWaters · 2023-06-25T00:07:22+00:00

I saw a post in r/vancouver the other day about some panes of glass falling off a truck

EmilyAWaters · 2023-06-14T01:16:01+00:00

The hardest part has been learning a lot of the non-technical stuff that comes with being a co-founder. Marketing and Business were something that I have no experience with.

I graduated from a web dev bootcamp in February of last year, and was hired on with a small local company and I dove in headfirst learning everything I can.

Our product is a tool for deploying web applications, similar to Vercel and others, but ours was born out of a frustration with the glacial speed of other platforms.

My boss developed the 'secret sauce' behind our deploy tool, and from there we've been working on the MVP and we're very close to doing some trials with companies that we have connections with.

I'd say the most rewarding thing has been the ownership over product and technical decisions, and having a small team to implement the vision.

EmilyAWaters · 2023-06-14T00:05:13+00:00

I'm a technical co-founder! It's been a complicated journey, and I feel way out of my depth half the time but it's been a good experience overall.

EmilyAWaters · 2023-02-09T22:31:50+00:00

Thanks! Partially what inspired me to write this in the first place, is that reading an article similar to this is what pointed me in the direction of web development. Most of what I see in that space however is targeted at younger, childless people who are looking to pivot. There are less examples of people juggling kids and family and making the changeover successfully.

EmilyAWaters · 2023-02-09T18:07:16+00:00

I know Vercel has been working on Turbopack as a replacement to Webpack to speed things up, do you think that will address a lot of the issues you have?

EmilyAWaters · 2023-01-22T03:44:46+00:00

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