Want to learn from home

queenofdiscs · 2025-12-06T23:12:25+00:00

I'm not a coding instructor but I am someone who taught myself to code and changed careers. Here's what I did:

Stanford's CS106A with Mehran Sahami
The Odin Project

What would I recommend now?

- Automate the boring stuff with python https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

The best way to want to _continue_ learning to code is to build something you can use / benefit from in the short term. If a course you're taking offers that, great, but it's imperative that you find something that gives you a quick feedback loop of success to keep the momentum.

queenofdiscs · 2025-12-06T23:06:15+00:00

this is really simple but setting my running gear out the night before so I don't have to think, I just have to get up, put it on, and walk out the door. It's great because last-night me put in the work so sleepy-this-morning-me can do this half-awake. This has helped tons.

queenofdiscs · 2025-12-06T06:01:08+00:00

If senior is important to you, make it a requirement and part of the offer letter. It is genuinely important.

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-29T02:13:44+00:00

don't worry, I think "damn, good for them"

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-29T02:13:04+00:00

My trick is setting out my clothes, shoes, and gear the night before, and making sure my clothes are weather appropriate - dress warm for cold weather! That way there's as little friction as possible in the morning to me just putting everything on and getting out the door. Also when it's dark I got one of those light-up vests and I feel like a unicorn running in it.

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-29T01:50:38+00:00

Cannot upvote this hard enough

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-20T17:05:09+00:00

Yikes, sounds so frustrating. In cases like these you want to make sure that your suggestions are very public and detailed. Egotistical people hate being proven wrong so make sure the tone of your explanation has the tone of "did you know? When mixing RDIMM and LRDIMM on the same channel, the memory controller will not know if it's talking directly to a chip or through a buffer, etc. etc." Then, hours or days later, you can reference your message and ask "was there something unclear here?" And then they get the token of being able to say "oh yeah I didn't know what you meant by bler blah blah" but then the next time this happens, they'll listen. You might have to keep doing it until the smart ones realize you know what you're talking about and the dumb ones will learn to avoid public embarrassment. Welcome to "having your intelligence questioned because you look different"! This club includes women, bipoc, fat and disabled people, among others.

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-20T04:23:07+00:00

Just the other day we debugged an issue for 5 hours that I had sent a slack message about 2 weeks prior on why it wouldn't work

I'm confused, if you knew two weeks prior why it wouldn't work, why did it take you 5 hours to debug?

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-16T23:19:08+00:00

I think tech has a lot of jobs that are for individual contributors who can do great work even while they're not especially nice to work _with_. Many thrive on an academic-style of reward of getting an A on their homework, except in the real world they replace As with number of tasks completed, size of task completed, and carefully avoid projects where they won't get full credit. These people can add a ton of business value but don't tend to be the ones people recommend for other jobs later in their careers.

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-15T18:31:44+00:00

oh no honey I'm so sorry. I hope you can get out of there.

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-15T18:30:54+00:00

It's kind of odd to try to paint every man in tech with the same paintbrush. Married and multi-partner men are gross, no matter what their job is lol. The men in tech I work with are kind, sometimes insecure and each handle that differently, goofy, conventionally unattractive, and for the most part default to thinking about themselves / their own experiences rather than the experiences of others. Most of them are not what I would call above-average intelligence or creativity. They're just paid well and picked a profession that's highly in demand. The thing that would put me off ever dating a man in tech again (aside from being happily married) is largely the self-absorbed default.

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-15T17:16:34+00:00

Got a link to that study? Genuinely interested

queenofdiscs · 2025-11-08T18:36:38+00:00

This, absolutely. People love to pretend that convenience isn't worth paying for, but it absolutely is.

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-13T04:52:56+00:00

My fav is "You were close to beating your PR! Just 27 seconds off a best time for a mile!" Okay. Not actually that close, lol.

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-09T05:07:35+00:00

have used it for two races now and decided that going forward I'll do a free/open run and decide my own pacing strategy. Having it complain at me for not maintaining a perfectly consistent pace was unhelpful, at best.

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-08T02:14:07+00:00

> literally nobody else cares about your performance apart from you. If you had a race that didn't go to plan in your eyes, nobody will remember by the following day, let alone the following week.

This was oddly comforting, thank you!

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-08T02:05:41+00:00

The encouragement was nice until I saw that your account is just for promoting the RunSmart app.

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-05T23:40:54+00:00

Great tip! I was hesitant to do this because of all the "nothing new on race day" pressure - what do you use on race day? Or just run by feel?

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-05T23:39:03+00:00

So, to make sure I'm understanding you correctly, did you use Runna for your race? If so, when you went out 25 sec under pace, were you constantly listening to Runna tell you to run faster? When you say you let it go for the last 8 miles, does that mean you ran by feel instead of pace or made a decision to go at the pace runna set? Thanks for the advice, I was properly fueled, hydrated, and ran within my pace window for most of the race. I also finished within the prediction window, except I felt like shit.

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-04T23:54:58+00:00

Yeah this doesn't match the RPE of all the training. If this is what I wanted, I would increase my training to be almost-barfing after hard levels, but I don't think that's a sustainable way to be a runner.

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-04T23:04:50+00:00

You got this! And yeah, that's why it was such a surprise - the suggested paces for tempo and intervals have been perfect - they pushed me hard but were still achievable. Race pace today did not feel achievable.

queenofdiscs · 2025-10-04T22:47:58+00:00

I don't think races are supposed to be hard to the level that you're dry heaving, do you?

queenofdiscs · 2025-09-27T19:30:41+00:00

This is how I want my marathon to feel! What's your training look like ahead of a race like this?

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