just got off the phone with my pops who reminded me "man there's no behind in life. There's no ahead in life. There's just life. Grab whatever fruit your current tree offers and when it runs out, find a new tree"

He turned off all training and used his mind to force his body to do what it should not have been able to do

17 years this August 💕

not by a LONNNNNNNNGGGG shot. I really want to know how they got picked. I have alot to say about this - really disappointed and feel like breakin is being dissed rn

yep. If I don't play music, it's playing in my head 🤷🏾‍♂️

My thoughts on mastering data structures and algorithms as a self taught dev. If you've learned to code on your own or through a bootcamp, you may be tempted to grind Leetcode very hard next because that's what's recommended so often. Before you do that, consider: *thread*

You can believe what you wish, vote for who you wish or no one at all. But the idea of voting for someone who says "I'm going to do x" and you vote for them thinking to yourself "they probably wont realy do x" is a behavior for which I'm not sure words exist

“Ain’t nobody coming to see you Otis“

this one time in church my mom was singing in the choir and I was talking to my sister a little too loudly I guess and I felt this warmth on the side of my face so I looked up and the look she gave me from the choir stand. Boom, I was black. And scared

for my new devs, a word or two.

@notcapnamerica So not only intellectually superior … but also … STRONGER. Oh this dude is melting internally by the minute now 😂 . Bet she crushed the crap out of that hand

Paris Paris Paris ... never again

Considering ALL of the secret service is one team, I wonder if they compare notes from their details just for kicks

I was the person who blew it in their 20s. Fumbled through my 30s and *just* launched a successful tech career in my 40s. One could say I'm 25 years behind, or I'm right where I'm supposed to be. In maturity, I eagerly celebrate those who pursued their path early as well as we who figured it out much later in life.

This is dumb. She's the ex-Vice President. Why would there be focus on her instead of Biden first of all? Secondly, she holds no office but there are a SLEW of congress men and women who can do a lot. Dumb take.

please continue alienating the middle, we thank you in advance

@MzButterfly513 , the more I come back to this post, the more it hits me: there are people who truly, deeply, down in the very core of their consciousness, believe NO black person should EVER do better than them. That's deep.

it's been first class theater - the gift that keeps on giving!

Legally correct and I totally feel and appreciate you but I gotta say "thats between me and the ballot box" will literally get people (esp women) hurt. 10/10 do not suggest

Over half of US Disctrict courts are more liberal leaning as opposed to the current supreme court. She not only set this up to succeed but established a precedent for the future in an era where the executive branch is continually questioning the power of lower courts

@AuburnU @AuburnMBB you may want to nip this in the bud before it goes really sour.

oh man 🤣🤣🤣🤣. He's ... he's so so very bad at this 🤣🤣🤣🤣

summer enrichment program for minorities right before freshman year in college. field trip to Martha's Vineyard. Stunned realizing some of my friends were 100% familiar with the island as their families summered there every year. I was clueless but soon learned.

There just too many microphones in the world . Toooooo many

Screaming this yall. Just focus. Please. Kill the distractions in your life. Make everything that is not contributing to you getting where you want to be complete noise.

It's a unique moment historically and I hope the books get it right for posterity to learn from. Fascinating to be living these times.

I can finally say it! Just started my new role as Senior Developer Advocate at @beefreeio (go follow us todsy 😉). They’re the gold standard in email design solutions and I get to write strategy, create resources, and implement community-building efforts for this awesome org. Let’s go!

long trip for some cheesecake 🤷🏾‍♂️

He was a master campaigner and the father of the modern digital campaign strategy everyone attempts to follow today. fun fact ;-)

Thank you Java. And Happy 17th to my best half 💕

I’ll probably lose followers over this but oh well. Hot take – some of you don’t need any more advice. Not a single mumbling word. 🤫 You just need to get your fingers on the keyboard and get to work consistently over the next few months. 💻 #learningtocode #selftaughtdeveloper

1st college acceptance letter just came in ❤️❤️❤️

Celebrating 19 years with she who keeps me sane ❤️ Fun fact when we met 21 years ago I was making $9.25/hr driving forklifts. just sayin

@SEC we have an issue.

the way the only ppl confused are those who supported is a story I pray the history books capture accurately

6 years ago today, I graduated from coding bootcamp.

40 years ago was 1984. They were MONUMENTALLY better piped.video/M-0Z_2j1a1U?si=ga1V…

18 years and she hasn’t fired me yet 🥰

Interview time 🙏🏾

A few places you can learn DS&A for free include MIT's 6.006 ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-in…, UC Berkley's CS61B sp21.datastructur.es/, and coursera.org/specializations… .

"it's on when we leave right?"

I've been saying 🐘 needs to vote 🫏 so they can get their party back.

So you like bees nests huh ?

16 Early admittance - MIT 18 Expelled - MIT 21 Expelled - State U.. 22 Married, started a restaurant career 27 Divorced 42 Terminated as Food Service Director 45 Started web dev course 46 Got a Jr marketing role 47 Landed full-time Software Developer position You can make it!!

Yay for 10K during my birthday month!

@SECNetwork a story worth covering

I was working graveyard shift driving forklifts at my 2nd restart in life.(my tech career transition is actually my 3rd). I saw her across the warehouse floor, watched her walk to her station and told my coworker Joe, “Joe, that’s the one right there. I gotta meet her”. I walked over, introduced myself and a few days later asked her out. She said no. Devastated in one sense but determined in another, I thought “well I just gotta try something else”. I kept speaking with her each night and eventually she took me up on that 1st date, a visit to a local community fair where we walked, talked, ate funnel cakes and spent most of our time in the gospel area. We almost broke up when despite having great times together, we couldn’t seem to get on the same page regarding timing for marriage. We planned one last hang out where we were going to eat WingStop, watch a movie, and call it quits. As the evening wound down we were both HURT. Neither of us really wanted to do what we had planned. So we didn’t . We decided to just “give it a whirl” which at the time meant continue the relationship with a renewed commitment to figuring out what appeared to be an impasse. This was PIVOTAL in giving us both the confidence that so long as we keep God first in all we do and plan, there’s nothing we can’t figure out together. 2 years later we got married. 2 years after that we had our Nina. Happy to say Happy Mother’s Day to my Joy, wife of nearly 18 years and sometimes it feels like we’re just getting started. Love you babe.

There's an entire github repo of companies that do *not* do DS&A whiteboard interviews: github.com/poteto/hiring-wit… If you've assessed you absolutely need to know DS&A for your next interview, Leetcode still isn't the first stop.

How they say it? Innnnnnnnnnnnnncorporated!

I know Angular. I need to know React. 5am it is.

After completion, pattern recognition is super-helpful. Resources to help with that include 14 patterns hackernoon.com/14-patterns-t…, 75 blind leetcode.com/discuss/general…, and Neetcode neetcode.io/. Then employ the power of repetition as the mother of skill - grind Leetcode.

lord kwows i hate to say it but i think the dude swooned a lil too 🤣

17 yrs in that business. Pending the amount of business compared to staff, yes. And worse

As my pastor spoke this morning on ‘scars’, I reflected on how much social media presence and influence centers on hiding one’s scars and flaws and presenting the most perfect images possible. But that’s the thing, they’re just images and not reality. In that vein, I’d like to share a few personal facts. Some people think the remarkable The remarkable thing about my story is getting started in tech at 46 years of age. What many don’t know is I should have been here 30 years ago. I should have graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1993 but instead I screwed it all up in the worst way and flunked out after 3 semesters. Many of you congratulated me on my 17 years of marriage to my lovely wife Joy. We indeed enjoy a wonderful blessed relationship for which I am eternally grateful. What you don’t know is I had a first marriage as well, 5 tumultuous years of pain mostly caused by me. A disaster that still has reverberating negative effects on my first born to this day. I could go on for quite awhile but I think you get the point. The numbers you see behind someone’s name whether it is follower count, number of views, or some other scalar, has in a social media context little to no relationship with the most important thing you need to know about that person which is the content of their character. I’m just on my soapbox this afternoon yelling out into the void to not let the carefully crafted photos and storylines fool you. More importantly, don’t ever devalue yourself because you don’t have some artificial numbers attached to your name, causing you to do all sorts of strange things to force people to look at you or look at your post or look at your Twitter space. These are unhealthy habits, long-term. If you are a person who demonstrates valuable knowledge or characteristics , and there are still people in the world who value that value, you will eventually attract the right people into your space. I am a witness. Have a blessed Sunday.

She won a silver medal! What have you done ?

It was over once it started being Thursday and not Friday. OVER

SNAP money gone Tarrif money gone and whats up with that fort konx walk through that just quietly went away ...

LOL I know that look! 🤣🤣🤣

yeah learning to code is infinitely easier than learning to people

The break into tech space, if there is such a thing, is more broken than tech interviews. US influencer culture has trumped actual skill-backed ability and productivity which in turns moves some newbies to invest valuable time in becoming known above becoming great in their craft

the one guy who quietly replaces that horrible dish at the company potluck with baked mac n cheese and raisin-less cole slaw

pivot into tech s-l-o-w-l-y

- 89 days (goal was 90) - 47 applications (every company deeply researched) - 13 interviews - 7 callbacks - 3 roles paused/closed * 1 offer #grateful @beefreeio

Today is the beginning of a new life chapter as yesterday was my last day serving as Developer Advocate with Vaadin. I will fondly remember learning, building, and teaching with the likes of @marcushellberg, @seb_vaadin, and many others. Team, you'll certainly be missed. Once I've had sufficient time to reflect and assess, I'll be seeking roles at the junction of building on the JVM (go Java!) and helping people win. That's my jam - reach out as appropriate. Let's go!

It’s Google I/O day. And I’m here 🤗 #TECatIO #GoogleIO2024 #GoogleIO

🥷in Paris … coding

Neither, Malcolm advocated for black nationalism. Is there a followup question because that was a little too easy.

How did I receive the warmest possible greeting from Mr. 100Devs @leonnoel himself? Ans: I came to @RenderATL

My babies 🤗

To your last question, there are numerous disheartening examples all around the world of what happens in that case.

Before and after of a successful interview #unemployedInPublic

The fix is in. He said they didn’t have to vote and he meant that. She does not need to concede and Joe should exercise his power in light of foreign interference.

even better, are we to believe the combined efforts of the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, Justice Department, and military intelligence are ALL COLLECTIVELY SAYING, "oh well, so much for democracy". Russia won. That's wiiiiiiiiild

Happy Thanksgiving from me and the lil one 🤗

I tell mine all the time I'm SO GLAD to be off the market (18.25 years and counting ;-) )

in February he started floating "maybe someone stole the gold from fort knox" so casually and ppl couldnt even process that statement because what leader says that? But if you've been watching dude for 8+ years, he has a penchant for telling on himself

be like

It’s about to go down

That one cat who speaks convingly for an hour about the power of entrepreneurship and what's it done for him before you realize he's repping a MLM with 4 people under him.

A whole word

Ok the balloons are cool but breakfast alone at Waffle House this morning was 😘🤌🏾

Yes this. Totally fair question but the Stingers are surely to come out ! 😂

Wow 9K just in time for my birthday! Thanks again to all for the well wishes, follows, and so many kind words.

China mastered the handoff years ago. The gain in transition what they may lack in speed

In 2019, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (comprised of Dems and Repubs) concluded the Russian operatives used social media to deter black people from voting and planted subtly racist content to incite conflict between ethnicities. Through the Internet Research Agency, they created fake profiles of black people with pro-black messaging and imagery then steered messaging to stir up strife within the community and not trust/vote for Hillary Clinton. To date, no social media entity has conclusively eliminated this practice. bbc.com/news/technology-4998… intelligence.senate.gov/site…

Coding? Not tonight. I’m out here working on my Birdman about to go hang with my people.

Back in the saddle. #feelsGood

My first offer for my first job in tech was part-time as an intern making $12.00/hr. I was a 46-year-old man with a wife, kids, and a mortgage but I accepted it. I had no idea days later I'd be called for an additional interview and as a result of that interview have the offer bumped up to a fulltime role. I had no idea but I was willing to take the leap. I'm sharing pieces of the offer letter because Claire Huxtable said "let the record show" 😂. I was so excited I started to make the video below. While I never finished the video, I have taken advantage of numerous opportunities since then to tell my story and share an example for other adults considering a transition into a technical career. Some relevant things in this short clip is that it is filmed from the "lonely loft" I've spoken of in numerous podcasts and Twitter spaces. You'll see a goals board behind me which I have spoken about many times as well. Those stories aren't fairy tales; this is my life. You'll notice on the board a goal of being hired in 2017. I didn't make it. I 100% did not achieve that goal. But I kept going and that's all I want to share with someone who may need encouragement today. No matter where someone may appear to me, often there's so many bumps in the road, setbacks, and letdowns that they may or may not choose to share. Don't YOU go feeling down in the dumps because of setbacks - we all have them. ALL OF US. Keep learning, building, teaching, pressing, pushing, strategizing, applying, relating, growing, and most importantly, KEEP GOING.

When is the Twitter space for how to break into trades? Plumbing, electrician, HVAC tech – these people get paid paid especially if they spin up their own business. I think a good number of people are missing out on these roles because #Reasons.

Seeing this is a frequent topic of conversation these days, starting tomorrow I’m kicking off #100DaysOfDevRel. Tell a friend 😉

Do what you wanna do, I’m betting on Java.

This is refreshingly normal.

From the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2025. Pass it on.

Whatever the guy does who answers "sheeiiii i can't call it" to everything you ask

Make friends. That’s the tweet.

Learning in public is cool but sometimes you need to go Batman mode and when you come out that cave months later, you're a whole new person ... with a fly batmobile ;-)

tore the whole club up

They don’t care about your skills

1:1 mentor session