Hector 🥸

After 11 months and 800 applications, I've successfully landed a W-2 as a software engineer! So many people helped me along the way with valuable insight and motivation. I'm pleased to have made it to the other side and look forward to helping others the same way I was helped.

Gotta go. Gonna miss my 8PM appointment.

@hartmandyyy this is SO good😂😂 it even uses an analogy that maps really well

The meal plan started off pretty vague by just stating the specific ingredients, but got more interesting as cuisines were specified. I also asked for specific quantities so that it'd meet my caloric requirements. Best/worst of all, every meal is healthy.

And here I was looking at cooking instagram videos, googling the nutritional value of everything. I quickly got overwhelmed😅 Here's the link in case anyone wants to see what I'm gonna be eating 📓notion.so/ChatGPT-Meal-P…

I just used ChatGPT & Notion to create & document a complete meal plan with literally 15,625 (6 meals/5 options each) ways to eat, that are specific to my desired fitness goals, caloric intake, and macronutrient ratios. It even took into consideration my preferred cuisine 😳

When you ask ChatGPT something, do you say please? I can't help it😂

@DThompsonDev hectorwong.dev I appreciate any feedback y'all have for me🙂

Portfolio sites/personal sites!! I am often asked what makes a great portfolio site. So drop yours below so we can give some ideas and inspiration to those in the community!

This is Air And it’s 500ms away from making a lot of jobs redundant It can perform full 5-40 minute long sales & customer service calls over the phone that sound like a human It can perform actions autonomously across 5,000 unique applications 🧵 twitter.com/CalebMaddix/st…

@senispeaks Just tried this method with 1. Just the sites 2. With optional keywords 3. With minus keywords They all resulted in 8 results each time, half being landing pages for recruiters. Not sure if my settings are wrong, or these websites have since hidden jobs from search🤔

Because I've been looking at it so much, 'join' is now a very strange word to me

Learned about React/TS prop annotations today. The greatest hurdle I overcame was that one of my files was jsx instead of tsx :') lmao. 2nd was do not include '.ts' in imports. 3rd was vercel being able to host env variables. ✨L e a r n i n g✨

Update: Rudimentary landing page and feed are in place. I'm typically more MVP-oriented but I'm still thinking about the best way to store/pull data in such a manner will allow for trie autocomplete, which needs a list to autocomplete with.

Alright y'all. I'm going to start building in public. For my first act, I'm building a user-generated archive for keyboard enthusiasts. To run this for free.99, I'll be using Next.js paired with Supabase. It's my first time using Next, Supabase, and Typescript so should be fun😮

I reflect often on the catalysts of my decision to become a SWE. This paradox is really interesting and I think my version is equally ironic. Only after arriving at what I thought was "good" in my career, was I afforded the ability to reflect on whether it was what I even wanted.

Interview Breaker — a ChatGPT tool that tells you what to say in job interviews. AI will upend every process with just a few lines of code. We’ve already seen it with school essays. Interviews will need to adapt, too.

THEY REMOVED THE CREATE REACT APP RECOMMENDATION. IT’S OVER.

I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business? Follow along 👀

@DThompsonDev @the_cguy @JayrobinDev @allysedotdev @genericmikechen @shashiwhocodes Can you expand on the problem solving skill set? I was told that I should quantify my contributions with the technologies used & measurable results so this is conflicting info for me

sure. In my opinion, your linkedin needs a lot of work and you aren't using it in a way that would really bring any traction to you. - banner image really isn't doing anything, would be better to have it have some CTA - there is no meaningful links in your contact info - about me needs to be redone - you have no featured section - your linkedin activity is basically nonexistent and none of it is even connecting with people that would be in a hiring capacity - your experience doesn't make much sense at all. Makes it look like you are making up experience. are they jobs at companies or is it side projects? this would be a big red flag since even I can not tell the difference and would lead to someone more than likely clicking away instead of trying to find out what you have done. - can't find a portfolio site. - work experience for non dev items is pretty great. quantified and detailed well. - BACK TO DEV ITEMS. I do not find many examples of you using a problem solving skillset. I see a lot of tasks you have done but you need to do the opposite and talk about solutions. hope this helps.

not gonna lie, y'all. feeling kinda jaded from job searching. any tips on staying fresh?

@DThompsonDev @the_cguy @JayrobinDev @allysedotdev @genericmikechen @shashiwhocodes Thank you!! I see a lot of this leading back to building a portfolio website/getting projects running. Also, the dev items are projects from a bootcamp. They set up pieces of an application and the numbers and tasks mentioned are real. How can I inspire confidence in that?