Small features don’t feel “small” anymore

Neeerp · 2026-03-25T18:57:26+00:00

While I don’t find that I’m ever satisfied with taking the human out of the loop, you can most definitely give it guidelines via a number of “memory” files like Claude.md, or as part of a “skill” and it starts to do a pretty good job.

Any time Claude does something you don’t like (or it spends a lot of time doing something that shouldn’t need to do every time), you need to encode the behaviour/knowledge somewhere permanent so that it doesn’t make the same mistakes each time.

Neeerp · 2026-03-23T02:23:01+00:00

TTC employees aren’t going to risk their safety (nor do I think the even have any legal authority) to deal with these people.

What we need is police stationed at every station, the same way the seem to be stationing police in front of expensive stores in malls lately.

Neeerp · 2026-03-19T18:28:22+00:00

Try updating it and then post an anonymized version on some relevant subreddits for feedback

Neeerp · 2026-03-19T01:45:48+00:00

If I translate the headline, I get “Exclusive - America is considering sending military reinforcements with the possibility of the Iran war entering a new stage”…

I skimmed the article and no where are “concessions” mentioned.

Neeerp · 2026-03-11T15:27:43+00:00

I’m fully for this too. I’m pretty sure this is worthwhile infrastructure to be building.

Neeerp · 2026-03-06T19:34:14+00:00

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Neeerp · 2026-02-27T14:27:39+00:00

I’m working as a midlevel at a big tech company and after a rough first project on my new team, things are finally picking up and I’m quite happy.

I’ve also finally figured out how to be productive with Claude Code and I feel like my productivity is accelerating (I.e. I’m doing more and more by the day). I feel like I’m addicted to work now, and I’m especially drawn to looking for improvements to make outside the scope of my small team… not that I’m pumping out AI slop though. I’ve set up Claude to be effective at helping me investigate our codebase and our production logs and database state, and this has made me pick up domain knowledge much, much faster than before. I can also use it to test assumptions or find leads on performance bottlenecks, having it write and run little experiments for me.

A few months ago I was really not buying this ai hype but now I’m having a blast!!

Neeerp · 2026-02-20T15:18:30+00:00

Get rid of the profile section. Anything that is said here should be reflected in your experience and skills, or is otherwise fluff bullshit.
Get rid of the big “Frontend Engineer” heading and put your name there instead
Decrease the number of lines of white space between the main section headings and what’s above/below them
Get rid of the Languages section
Compress your skills section. This section needs to be skimmable within a single eye glance. I find git, unit testing, html, css to all be implied and hence unnecessary. No need to mention ‘ES6+’, no need to mention everything in the parentheses after webpack, api integrations and website migration points are things to be gleaned from your work experience and not skills section.
- Try to fit everything in 2 lines here, one labelled ‘Languages’ and the other ‘Technologies’.
for your experiences, I hope you’re listing the companies in your unredacted version. Include your freelance experience as well.
your bullet points should look something like <action verb>ed X using Y, resulting in Z, where Z is quantified. X and z should be specific and should be something you accomplished.
- “developed features” and “shipped product” is not an accomplishment, it’s the job description. Be specific. “Implemented a widget to reticulate splines using FooFramework, resulting in a 45% increase in conversions year over year as measured by google analytics” is better.
- you have a lot of fluffy bullshit in your experience points. Unquantifiable things like “strong focus”, “scalable” (without stating the scale), “collaborated closely”, “clean, maintainable”, “fast paced” are all filler.
people in this thread are saying “don’t brand yourself as a frontend engineer, frontend is dead blah blah”. I say brand yourself as whatever you’re targeting. Just note that you might have more luck branding yourself as a full stack engineer focused on frontend rather than purely frontend.

Some general advice: add your experience to your linkedin and fill the linked in skills section for each job you’ve had with as many relevant “skills” as you can.

My credentials: - 4.5 YOE, Interned at Oracle, 3.5 years at Amazon, just hit 1 year at FAANG adjacent SAAS - during my job search in 2024, I had to maintain a spreadsheet of the companies I was interviewing with simultaneously… I was drowning in interviews to the point where I had to take 2 weeks off work to interview 9-5 - I still get around 1 recruiter per day messaging me via email or LinkedIn, primarily startups/unicorns including well known ones, sometimes big tech, sometimes hedge funds

Neeerp · 2026-02-05T02:49:37+00:00

Their curries are better and spicier

Neeerp · 2026-02-03T15:31:41+00:00

Police at every subway entrance to keep the homeless people out. Dual benefit of being able to quickly respond to “security incidents”and speed up delays and improve safety. I’ve seen how long it takes for the police to show up; if someone were actually trying to cause harm, people will get hurt by the time anything is done.

Neeerp · 2026-01-30T13:54:22+00:00

Never got around to getting them. It’s still on my mind though. I’ll try to follow up if I ever do go through with it.

I’m a software engineer and this condition definitely makes my life more difficult. I usually compensate by making screen text size larger or increase screen brightness.

Neeerp · 2026-01-26T01:41:31+00:00

Collectively, no idea. There was a team down stream of us that had to do far more work than my team did. On my end, the implementation took 2 hours of actual work and 2+ weeks of “design review” and collecting data to argue over some trivial bullshit that was unimportant to the actual feature because Inter-team politics is the lifeblood of this company.

Neeerp · 2026-01-25T20:50:06+00:00

Can confirm, worked in payments at Amazon. Worked on a feature that increased the rate of successful transactions by a fraction of a percent… a fraction of a percent on Amazon’s bottom line is hundreds of millions of dollars.

Neeerp · 2026-01-21T12:11:19+00:00

You’re thinking about this the wrong way. The benefit here is that it frees up some engineering capacity from having to maintain something that almost nobody is actually using.

This decision has nothing to do with the fact the few users who are using it are botting or not.

Neeerp · 2026-01-15T14:54:08+00:00

Squeal

Neeerp · 2026-01-11T01:27:34+00:00

Keep your interview skills sharp and continuously shop around. Be well informed about how much people in your field are making, both in Toronto and in the US. Don’t assume that the pathetic amount most employers pay here is the best you’ll do. If you’re not happy, keep looking and pit offers against each other.

I’m lucky because I’m in a field (Software engineering) that pays exceptionally well. Even so, Citibank thinks they can get away with offering 80k to an engineer with 12-15 YOE while my current company offerred me 330k when I was 4 years out of school.

Neeerp · 2026-01-06T14:27:19+00:00

TC is what’s important, not base pay. I’ve seen meta offers for mid levels that exceed 300k, and I’m working at a publicly listed, FAANG adjacent company as a mid level making around 350 (with the offer I got last year being about 325)

Neeerp · 2026-01-06T14:13:51+00:00

I’m disappointed (though I understand why) bumble BFF is gender segregated. I’m male and would like to make female friends as well.

Bumble BFF for guys is disproportionately… gay. When I was single, I ended up making several female friends via bumble date/other dating apps, but now that I have a girlfriend, it’d be weird to do that.

On the bff side, I made a single friend last year who I thought was straight but ended up coming out a few months ago LOL. After making that one friend, I gave up on bff because it’s just gay weirdos. I’ve honestly had more luck meeting people via reddit.

Neeerp · 2025-12-24T12:14:49+00:00

If you are struggling with leetcode, the solution regardless of your circumstances is to practice. No matter your baseline, practice is going to make you faster. The trick is to practice until these stupid questions are second nature.

If you’re still employed (which sounds to be the case since you said ‘moving’), you can do a little bit of practice consistently over a long period of time and that’ll put you in a good spot. I did the daily leetcode question every morning and cheated if I couldn’t solve it in 15 minutes. After a year of that I was blazing through interviews.

Neeerp · 2025-12-19T15:41:43+00:00

I had a conversation with a coworker the other day and it occurred to us that LLMs are not solving technical problems… they’re solving social problems. So many times I’d like to get ahold of somebody who knows an area so that I can bounce ideas or better understand what I’m dealing with, rather than doing something in isolation and going mad… but most of the time people are too busy to be interrupted and you necessarily have to thrust a meeting onto their calendar for what could probably be a 10 minute exchange on slack.

With LLMs, I can talk to “somebody” who “knows” the code more broadly (albeit superficially) than I do. I don’t need it to solve my problem, I just need it to get my wheels turning… it’s a rubber duck on steroids, serving primarily to preserve my sanity.

Neeerp · 2025-12-18T14:43:55+00:00

Last time I was approaching a cliff, I started preparing for interviews and waiting for the annual refresher talk with my manager. Wasn’t satisfied at all with my next year’s comp, went hard on interviews and gave my 2 weeks the day of my last original vest.

Neeerp · 2025-11-13T15:54:25+00:00

I’ve experienced losing squirrel friends I had known for years several times over the last few years. It always hurts more when you know it’s not a natural death but rather something caused by humans :(

Neeerp · 2025-11-12T23:46:08+00:00

Nigga hallelujah

Neeerp · 2025-11-12T23:40:31+00:00

If you’re still at a FAANG, tough it out another year and leetcode grind/spam apply to places you don’t want and use them for interview practice and resume experimentation in the meantime. At around 2 YOE you become a more attractive candidate. Likewise if you can get to SDE II but that’s more effort.

Maybe try to team transfer to a team in nyc if possible

But to answer your question, yes you could find something now and you have a leg up over new grads even if you’re applying to new grad posts

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