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I’ve had an idea for a comic series kicking around in my head; I figure if I really learn how to use a graphics tablet and Krita and some basic and intermediate art skills it won’t hurt a damn thing.
I am learning how to write. After seeing a few people with blog, I realize the importance of writing. It makes you think clearer and understand a subject deeper.
1. take notes on a topic that has continuing relevance for you (like, you're learning something over a few days or weeks) 2. wait for your project to hit a milestone or for your notes to hit a critical mass 3. reorder your notes into sections, discard bad ones, and flesh them out with text 4. pick the best line, that's your title 5. print it out and leave it under your pillow 6. edit the next day 7. publish
I'm a native English speaker and Russian would be my fourth language. Perhaps I'm simply approaching the limits of my language ability, but the grammar rules with cases that I've learnt so far are doing my head in. It's very discouraging. I don't intend on becoming completely fluent, and so I'm trying to find shortcuts to be fuzzy about the volume of grammar rules to keep in mind.
I'm learning the ins and outs of WebAssembly. I just picked back up writing my compiler to WASM for my toy programming language (think JS crossed with ML). Right now I'm getting a feel for writing stack based bytecode and implementing basic features like local variables and control flow. It's not much, but I just got factorial to compile in my language which felt totally awesome.
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100% percent my experience too. In the last 3 months I've been on-site at 3 of the FAANG companies. Not a single interviewer brought up the large personal projects I've done and which are given decent space on my resume; my weeks of leetcoding was definitely far far far more beneficial for getting a job.
sometimes feels very sad about this since one's value should be reflected by the awesome projects he has done. I think it's just laziness of the FAANG companies. If the interviewer is well prepared and keeps digging the resume, then he should know the candidate is good or not. But by leetcoding, it's simpler for them, just keep asking the repeated questions.
Auth is super handy.
On the other hand I didn't anticipate how wired my brain is for SQL...