Rebeca Carrillo

Sometime last year I bought this book for $1.90 online, specifically because--I gotta be transparent here--I thought it was freaking hilarious. However, after what I thought was going to be a pure-lulz read, I actually found myself with a lot of thoughts. "Y2k For Women" :(1/n)

I rarely tell people that I’m Autistic because it often changes the way they interact with me, but the one kind of nice exception to that is that I’ve never really felt like it was a disadvantage in software engineering. If anything, it seems super common in this field.

the "sliding window" pattern everyone knows from LeetCode (it's the optimized solution to stuff like "find the longest substring w/out repeating characters") is also an optimized way to keep track of user connection data in k-millisecond windows, at high volumes, across towers.

I know those super academic sounding problems (like "reversing a linked list", etc) might sound out of touch, but they're genuinely at the core of performant modern software in IoT/Telecom because the data is so big, and coming in so quickly, that robust algorithms make or break

Have you ever accidentally kept a potato so long that it turned into an eldritch terror

version control, what’s the next step?” — even though I hadn’t asked him to, he acted like the mistake was his to take the focus off of me in the moment while we rectified the situation. I don’t have a problem escalating my mistakes/owning them now, but gesture stuck with me then

projects yet) because he seemed like the most approachable person to me, a junior and one of the only women, in that moment. After about a minute of giving me shit (in a way that felt funny, not mean), he walked up to another colleague and said “hey, I committed a password to

It’s easy to focus on the challenges of being a woman in software, but I’ve been trying recently to actively remind myself of all the times my male colleagues had my back on something, or were a good ally in another one. One that I recalled this weekend: (1/n)

Hashcat & latin trap

You can be interested in anything if you pay enough attention to it

git commit -m “yikes”

“Sowing chaos is my love language” — my new nemesis apparently

REST API’s are my love language

This paragraph from @jpbrammer’s new book “Hola Papi” hit me like a ton of bricks. I am in love with this essay collection from a fellow queer neurotic Mexican & I think I encountered right when I needed it

@ASpittel The number of times I’ve written “git ass” instead of “git add”

uh anyone else get this error message like daily? or is it just me? git: 'psuh' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

Update: thank you so much for the DM’s! I’ve really enjoyed hearing from y’all and having initial conversations. As much as I would love to take on everyone, I’m afraid I’m at capacity for the time being. If you reached out & didn’t hear back, I’ll be circling back in October.

Quick side note for any early career engineers following me: for commit messages at work, use good style. Capitalize the first letter and use an active verb. Your message should be able to complete the sentence “when added, this change will ___”. e.g. “Add support for shuffling”

git commit -m “feature works now, but at what cost?”

One of the benefits of having this is my zoom background is that it frequently comes up in the conversation and I genuinely love hearing people’s reactions/opinions of it (board says: “truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues”