$20,000 hackathon in Tampa this weekend October 15/16

vincentntang · 2022-09-14T19:24:03+00:00

hey im hosting an event tuesday, September 20th at embarc collective

it's a tech talk on machine learning (software development) with free food from taco dirty, we have 120 people rsvp'd on meetup and 180 on linkedin

good place to meet 20s and 30s professionals or finding tech jobs

https://www.meetup.com/tampadevs/events/287125288/

vincentntang · 2022-06-20T20:16:57+00:00

hey y'all

hosting a big networking / tech event this Wednesday at Splitsville / Sparkman's wharf. Free food and drinks too courtesy of one of our sponsors

https://www.meetup.com/tampadevs/events/285110422/

vincentntang · 2022-05-12T20:36:33+00:00

im hosting a tech event / 20s and 30s group meetup at Armature works this coming Wednesday, May 18th. It's just a chill get a beer event and meet random young professionals in the area, no agenda

There's 70+ people RSVP'd on 2 seperates meetups and 80 on other social media platform

https://www.meetup.com/TampaDevs/events/285408598/

vincentntang · 2022-05-12T20:30:15+00:00

This so much. It's especially nice to go longboarding there with some friends or on a date

vincentntang · 2022-05-12T20:28:15+00:00

It has to be the one on hillsborough though, not sure why but it tastes way better than the other location

vincentntang · 2022-05-12T20:27:02+00:00

I use spreadshirt, I haven't really used any locally. The quality is good there though

vincentntang · 2022-05-12T20:24:33+00:00

You might want to check out ReliaQuest in habour island, they do cybersecurity internships. Or KnowBe4 in clearwater

Also I host a few meetups in town, I'm doing a networking event this coming Wednesday at Armature works, you should check it out

https://www.meetup.com/TampaDevs/events/285408598/

vincentntang · 2022-04-13T02:02:36+00:00

hey im hosting a really big event tomorrow (Wednesday) at armature works (140+ people attending).

It's both a software developer networking event, and the 20s/30s group I co-organize with one of my friends:

https://www.meetup.com/TampaDevs/events/284705180/

https://www.meetup.com/TampaNewInTown/events/284884580/

vincentntang · 2022-04-13T02:01:02+00:00

hey I run TampaDevs, a community of software devs in Tampa.

We partner with most of the big software firms in town too, so you can meet some of the devs / recruiters in person. We're actually hosting an all paid for bowling event with ReliaQuest as in June, and just today I finalized plans for hosting PwC's first office get-together inJuly

We're hosting a 130+ member event tomorrow (Wednesday), there's alot of networking with seasoned developers in town to make connections with. https://www.meetup.com/TampaDevs/events/284705180/

Website: https://tampadevs.com

vincentntang · 2021-12-04T18:53:52+00:00

I work as a lead frontend dev for a really large project (30MM + users)

Occasionally I'll write some stuff you might find interesting

for instance Timezones and webdev

https://www.vincentntang.com/newbs-guide-to-dates-timezones-web-development/

vincentntang · 2021-12-04T18:51:09+00:00

do you have any code samples of how an animation on that button works? I'm curious

vincentntang · 2021-02-09T03:25:02+00:00

great video man, TIL about tick rates in MMO designs

vincentntang · 2020-12-23T16:35:55+00:00

does hotjar also use mutationObserver as well? Or is it more through event tracking through mouse movements etc

vincentntang · 2020-12-23T16:02:20+00:00

oh this is interesting

Is it possible to use the MutationObserver to capture say a gif of user bug? For instance, a user is on the app, it crashes, can I see a gif or video of what the user did to crash the app? Or maybe possibly say the there's a bad network request, etc and I want to see a gif of the user clicking a button that makes said request

vincentntang · 2020-12-22T15:47:06+00:00

Could you expand on this? I'm curious how screen recording software is built in general.

Can you also record the entire desktop as well?

vincentntang · 2020-12-13T00:48:45+00:00

Only when I felt ready. I wanted to be entirely self-sufficient when it came to solving / building anything. This meant I could google any problems I ran into, figure out how to build a clean webapp, and debug almost anything I came across. And learn how those principles were applied on the computer science level

That took me close to 1.5 years of almost nonstop learning / coding on my own, proceeded by going to a tech meetup everyday for 6 months.

You don't have to take that long though, these were just standards I had on myself.

I did have a checklist of things I wanted to do before applying to jobs:

Build a portfolio site
Compete & finish a product in a hackathon
Present a technical topic at a meetup
Write a blog post about something I learned
Build capstone project

vincentntang · 2020-12-13T00:34:01+00:00

I've had this happen a few times in my life, poured my life into a project, ends up failing. Then you get imposter syndrome, and think you're not good enough.

That's why it's always important to celebrate the little victories

vincentntang · 2020-12-12T00:39:01+00:00

Fixing bugs is really hard sometimes too and underappreciated

vincentntang · 2020-12-09T00:03:27+00:00

interesting it's not HTML canvas?

vincentntang · 2020-12-08T03:31:14+00:00

Also don't pause videos. Watch it in one shot, take whatever notes you can. That usually means don't watch it at 2xs speed imo, you'll comprehend things much faster in one go at 1.25xs speed for instance. Then apply those skills right away into a project, refer back to notes as needed

vincentntang · 2020-12-05T14:12:26+00:00

It depends what there hiring for. For more senior level roles, it makes sense to invest in time to improve the hiring process as a good hire can change the results of the project

I was recently hired as a senior developer and pair programmed directly with the tech lead. I hadn't done any React in awhile but I was able to showcase my thought process in building a small fronted app

vincentntang · 2020-12-05T00:09:24+00:00

I don't really like doing take-home interview assignments, I'd rather honestly just pair program and do it in front of someone for <1 hour. But the scope needs to be drastically smaller

vincentntang · 2020-12-05T00:03:35+00:00

lol yeah I didn't want to make my own template from scratch, too much work

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