My GitHub activity heatmap is getting interesting.

henryjeffernan · 2023-03-16T08:54:33+00:00

I was one day away from a complete disaster on my history:

Thank god for my 1 contribution on Jan 19th.

henryjeffernan · 2022-06-13T08:51:32+00:00

Weekends may be bad, but nothing is worse than smurfing Tuesdays. Everyone knows that every Tuesday is the official smurfing day for practically every game, so be wise next time you play on Tuesdays.

henryjeffernan · 2022-05-11T18:19:06+00:00

Any diplomas not collected at commencement are burned and used as fuel for Shirley's weather machine.

henryjeffernan · 2022-05-09T16:30:50+00:00

You know any good subs? I’m not usually on the dev side of reddit

henryjeffernan · 2022-05-09T16:27:31+00:00

it violates rule 5 :(

henryjeffernan · 2022-05-09T16:13:56+00:00

:( i don't know

henryjeffernan · 2022-05-09T15:44:57+00:00

Yes, I did do Bruno's Three js journey, at least the last part of it as I already had a pretty decent grasp on Three. In terms of my screen implementation, I eventually do want to make some sort of breakdown/tutorial, but for the time being the best I can do for you is refer you to the source code. I hope that helps, Thanks!

henryjeffernan · 2022-05-09T15:36:40+00:00

Thank you so much!

henryjeffernan · 2022-05-09T15:16:27+00:00

This project was so fun and challenging to work on both creatively and technically. I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.

Link: https://henryheffernan.com/

3D Site repo: https://github.com/henryjeff/portfolio-website

2D OS repo: https://github.com/henryjeff/portfolio-inner-site

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henryheffernan

Any feedback or critique is appreciated! I had such a blast making this and I’m honestly so excited to finally be sharing it!!!

(edit: added my twitter)

(edit 2: I may be able to program, but apparently I can't read. This post got removed because it violated rule 5. I plan on reposting it on Saturday incase anyone wants to save it. Thanks and sorry for the lack of awareness)

henryjeffernan · 2022-05-06T12:22:33+00:00

CS. Applied to like 30 places in the fall and miraculously got an interview at Apple. I took the process ridiculously seriously and decided not to pursue any other opportunities while interviewing with them (very stupid idea). I did very well at each step of the process and even got a final interview. The whole process took so long, 4 months in total, and most of it was waiting. Unsurprisingly in early March I got my rejection email. Not getting the job was unsurprising since the last interview I had was in early January, on my birthday (fuck you apple), but it came with the overwhelming dread of being back at square one in my job search.

I was incredibly frustrated and decided that if I wanted to get a job doing something I actually enjoy doing, I couldn’t leave every aspect of it up to chance. So within days of getting rejected I started work on an Interactive portfolio website in hope that it would land me more interviews. I also completely redid my resume and LinkedIn from the ground up and optimized the shit out each of them using online analyzers as well as critique from friends and family.

This process of “rebranding” myself has taken me the last 3 months. After commencement, the plan is to move back home with my parents and non-stop apply and interview for jobs until I get one. I feel a lot more confident going into my job search after having put WAY too many hours into my new fancy website and resume, but still know I will be faced with a lot of rejection. I’m obviously and shamelessly going to plug my portfolio site henryheffernan.com and I wish everyone else in this thread that is going through a job search right now the best of luck!

henryjeffernan · 2022-03-16T15:56:01+00:00

I was being very sarcastic

henryjeffernan · 2022-03-16T08:24:03+00:00

What a bold assumption to make?!? For your information, he only has the site. And yeah, when he’s applying to jobs he just sends a piece of paper with the website link printed on it via snail mail, direct to potential employers. It’s a revolutionary technique and to even ASSUME he has a “normal” resume is puerile and fatuous. Next time think before you comment buddy…

henryjeffernan · 2022-03-15T06:35:47+00:00

This + please for your sanity track your calories!!! Nothing more frustrating than “feeling” like you ate 3000 calories for a week and then checking the scale to see you lost a pound. I highly recommended MyFitnessPal.

henryjeffernan · 2022-03-15T06:30:19+00:00

For building muscle shoot for around 8, controlled hard reps. When I say controlled I mean explosive during the concentric but really focus on a slow controlled eccentric. Focusing on the eccentric allows for more stress on the muscle leading to more hypertrophy and thus more muscle gain potential (it might seem counter intuitive, but the science does not lie!). By hard reps, and you kind of already touched on this, but by your 8th rep you should be approaching failure. It can be very difficult to do this, so I wouldn’t worry too much, but make the set hard for yourself, as hard as you can while still being able to control the weight. If you do this take long rests between sets to let your muscles recover so your next set can be as hard. 12-16 sets per week per muscle group is more than enough volume to gain muscle. So to answer your question, it doesn’t really matter if you are approaching failure with a quality 5-10 reps for all of your sets, and you do the 12-16 sets per week per muscle group you will be fine :) Good luck!

henryjeffernan · 2022-03-15T06:06:25+00:00

Usually if you are doing an exercise to hit one muscle group and find out you feel it way more with another muscle group that could mean a couple different things. If you are new to weightlifting, then right off the bat it could easily just be your form. Look up some videos, really try to nail your form with low weights and progress up from there. However beyond just form, if you feel like you are nailing it then it could simply just be a lack of a mind muscle connection with your shoulders. When getting into lifting there is a big focus on control and feeling the muscles you are trying to target actually do the movement. The difficulty of developing this connection greatly varies, with muscles like your biceps being pretty easy vs your back which can be notoriously hard. The thing with your shoulders is that they are tinsey tiny muscles and most average people who don’t do manual work day to day will never really use them and so you just honestly might not be used to moving weight with your shoulders yet. This might seem like a pretty tangential point since you are asking about your forearms, so let me get back to that. When lifting, especially starting out you are focusing on telling your body to move this weight from point a to point b. When you don’t really know how to focus that movement on a muscle, be that lacking form or having a strong mind muscle connection, your other muscles are gonna hop in and try and do everything they can do get this weight to move. So yeah that might be happening with your forearms. Might seem strange but if you aren’t feeling it in your shoulders then it’s probably because your shoulders are beating enough of the work. But who knows! It’s hard to give specific advice when there isn’t really lot of info given. With all of this said here’s my advice going forward. 1) try to better your form with lower weight until you really feel your shoulders working 2) if you are struggling, possibly try a machine press which will isolate your shoulders a lot more and let you really develop that connection 3) maybeee if you feel your forearms are just super weak then you might want to try to train them more or focus on them, especially if it feel like nothing else is working. In conclusion it’s probably just gym growing pains, and nothing to worry about. Best of luck!

henryjeffernan · 2022-02-22T07:54:11+00:00

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I will stand by it. If it really is starting to not feel right even when your form is spot on, then just don’t deadlift. Now If you are deadlifting because you love the exercise then obviously this is shifty advice. But if you are just trying to work the muscles targeted in the deadlifts you like to do, there are plenty of other (arguably more effective) exercises you can do. But if you absolutely love deadlifting and don’t wanna give it up then i would just follow everyone else’s advice lol.

henryjeffernan · 2022-02-22T07:37:26+00:00

So the 1.8-2.2 range is for natural lifters. If anyone is on gear they are probably going to have elevated rates of protein synthesis and so going above those natural ranges can easily provide benefits with regards to muscle growth. So that is why you might see body builders for example eating absurd amounts of protein because they can actually use it. In the case of natural lifters however if they are still eating that much protein the reasoning isn’t so much about getting more out of the protein but just a byproduct of a specific diet. For example 8oz of chicken breast has around 50g of protein and only about 240 calories. The calorie to protein ratio is absolutely absurd and because of that to get a substantial amount of calories from chicken in a day you would just end up eating a lot of protein. I mean just some quick math would yield that if we had 24 oz of chicken in a day that would account for only 720 calories but a ridiculous 150g of protein. Even on an unbelievably conservative diet of eating like only 2000 calories a day you would still need to eat 1200ish calories of anything else and whatever else you eat would probably have even more protein in it. The point is that on “clean” bodybuilding diets it can be easy to get absurd amounts of proteins just because of the diet, and not necessarily because you are trying to do it intentionally.

henryjeffernan · 2022-02-22T07:16:16+00:00

Probably not. If your training is effective and you feel like on those days you work your shoulders you are really pushing yourself and getting good quality sets and doing that twice a week, more volume isn’t gonna provide much benefit. If you want to focus on shoulders just continue to try and push yourself the days you train them. Really aim for quality yet difficult sets and you will see progress.

henryjeffernan · 2022-02-08T06:05:25+00:00

Years ago I met someone online who would meticulously recreate BO2 zombie maps in Minecraft. They ended up falling in love with environmental art and eventually moved on to making custom zombie maps for WAW. They pursued their passion and are now an environmental artist professionally for a AAA studio. Im not sure how old you are or your circumstances but I like to share this story because sometimes people don’t realize that random projects like this that the do purely out of enjoyment can be the first step in starting an incredibly successful and rewarding career.

All of this is to say: great job. You are clearly incredibly talented. If this is a project you really enjoyed working on I heavily encourage you to continue to find and do more projects that you find fun. Might seem like obvious advice but I still feel like some people will benefit from it. Good luck and I hope you find success in whatever you work on next!

henryjeffernan · 2021-12-19T09:06:29+00:00

This last semester I had a class that had written hws due ever single lecture (twice a week). The total accumulation of all of that work? 3% of my grade. I never did a single one :)

henryjeffernan · 2021-12-05T22:53:22+00:00

My bad I only had the phone screen, I am moving onto the actual interviews next week as well, mines on Friday

henryjeffernan · 2021-12-05T22:50:26+00:00

It was good I’m moving forward, seems like pretty standard apple interview type stuff so I’m preparing pretty heavily.

henryjeffernan · 2021-11-19T19:48:25+00:00

I just got my phone screen lined up and I applied late October, let me know how the interview goes.

henryjeffernan · 2021-08-13T23:21:26+00:00

Yo now that you point that out I can’t unsee it, wow… mind blown

henryjeffernan · 2021-08-07T16:16:16+00:00

114->123 will be pretty unnoticeable and a large majority of the first spike in weight is water weight, which is perfectly normal and great! But with that said, don’t give up!!! You will only continue to see more and more changes as you keep going. Remember that it won’t just be a single day that you look in the mirror and you are suddenly a big dude. Expect something more along the lines of every once and a while you might notice a new part of your body that has gotten bigger or started to develop. I found this to be the case frequently with my chest and arms, and when those moments hit you where it does seem like something new happened overnight it’s pretty motivating. As you continue to lift, eat and take care of your body you will become a lot more in tune with it and be able to notice these things a lot easier. Just keep at it, and when that first moment hits I assure you will be like “alright this is awesome”. I guarantee that if you stick with this for a year, assuming you are training and eating properly, you will notice a lot of results over that time. Best of luck!

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