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The Complete Interview-Ready Guide to React

The Complete Interview-Ready Guide to React

An interview-oriented explanation of renders in React, and how you can deploy memoization, context, and other tools to simplify your React app.

You MAY find success through your career

You MAY find success through your career

A journal entry breaking down the successful careers of people that I admire.

Word of Mouth Hiring

Word of Mouth Hiring

My history of finding jobs and getting hired is weird. It sounds made-up, because of the randomness involved. However, I think it's worth recounting online just to share with the world that giving 10s of hours of interviews and grinding Leetcode isn't the only way to get hired in tech.

The Pareto Hypothesis for Getting Hired

The Pareto Hypothesis for Getting Hired

Approach job-hunting without burning out

Advice on joining a web3 company, as a web3 engineer

Advice on joining a web3 company, as a web3 engineer

Web3 career advice as an *insider*, this is a bad time to work for companies benefitting from crypto trade and speculation (Coinbase, smart exchanges like Celsius, speculative NFT projects). However, the cost to join a DAO or start a DApp just fell down. What this means 👇 There ARE a lot

Learning Advanced React in a realistic timeframe

Learning Advanced React in a realistic timeframe

Here's a no-bs guide to how you can learn basic-advanced React in 3-4 months, given some prior experience in programming 🔥 👉 Learn HTML + CSS 👉 Pick up JS and add interactivity to your pages 👉 Learn React 👉 Deep-dive into advanced React 🔴 PROJECTS 1. Learning HTML + CSS For all parts of web development, from

Making your first Open-Source Contribution in 2022

Making your first Open-Source Contribution in 2022

🔴 Tips on contributing to Open-Source 🔴 I recently was working with a few new libraries, and found a few places I could make changes. After getting my changes merged in, I found other places where I could make improvements, although I didn't have the time to contribute due to personal obligations.

Career Advice from discussion with a Senior Google Engineer

Career Advice from discussion with a Senior Google Engineer

A few weekends ago, we had an amazing 45-minute long discussion with Jason Mayes, who is the Senior Dev Advocate for TensorFlow.JS at Google. Jason's journey on how he reached Google and eventually became a Dev Advocate for TensorFlow.JS is quite different than the one we're used to