Day 9
Dentist so painful, thinking about getting some water picks as recommended for the future 😭
Debugged desktop vs web browser experience for my job seeker app (Tracklio)
Looked into exporting/importing job data as json files
Started doing a deep dive DSA course
Networked 🔥
It really was!! I took another walk today after the weekend just cause it was so nice hahaha
Took quality time to walk and enjoy the NYC sakura blossoms and river view this past weekend 🌸 Got to discover yummy chicken, waffle fries, and some street performances too 🍗
Gotta catch em all 🤣
Day 7
Learned about Product Designer thought process chatting with Chaeri Bong and web apps she's been working on
Worked on my job seeker app (Tracklio)
- Google OAuth (desktop + web)
- dev & prod modes
- error boundaries, debug logs
- unit + e2e tests
Watched Harvard's DS and Dynamic Arrays
Hope you feel better soon Rufio!!!
Sure I’d be down to chat!
Attended A Night of Enterprise AI @atlassian.bsky.social NYC
Learned about Forge, Rovo, & that best ideas dont fail on execution, they fail on capture from @bytesofbree.bsky.social, Reign Nelson, & @dthompsondev.bsky.social
Met a lot of lovely new folks, familiar faces, & ate yummy pizza & soda~
Day 6
Today was a networking-focused day (tomorrow too)
Chatted with Arathi Kumar about consulting, learned more about her tech journey, and anime!! 🔥
Worked on auth for job seeker app
Watched Startup Secrets: Go to Market Strategies
Looked into open source contributions
Took the time to stop and smell the roses today- even did a mini picnic with myself 😇 It was a nice way to force myself to appreciate the things around me instead of constantly trying to optimize everything, definitely going to do this more often 😁
There's so many good things about it!!
Sightseeing and walking through NYC in this beautiful weather was such a lovely way to spend the afternoon ☺️
Honestly same. My fav song is still How it’s done lol
As promised, my job search tracker app demo video!
I swear I put the camera on for this when I recorded the loom, but apparently it wasn't on?
Oh well, next time I promise you'll see my beautiful face too 😁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuGw...
Will post a demo video tomorrow, but wanted to show my current state of the job tracker - was excited to use electron from my time at @getpostman.bsky.social 🤩
My day was full of learning with Harvards Designing a Customer Centric Model and Maintain Consistency and Adhere to Standards 🧠
YES PLEASE LET'S DO ITTTTTT
Day 4
Today was focused on learning - read Visual Hierarchy UX definition & watched Harvards Create a Product People will Actually Buy class
This week was a good start, got lots of progress updating my info for the job hunt & lots of learning
Plan on doing more learning Monday 🔥
Thank you Thomas!!! Need all the luck I can get lol 🥹
Hahah I just wanted a way to track stiff without using excel. Also figured it would be a good way to practice on the side: win-win lol
Updated my resume to draft and portfolio, and applied to 4 jobs 😎
Started vibe-coding a job search tracker app tool for myself to help optimize the job hunt 🔥
Watched Harvards How to Build a Product that Scaled into a Business - wanna expand my skillsets & knowledge 🔥
how about South Korea and busan hahahha
Day 2
Started updating my draft 2 resume with received feedback 📄
Worked on frontendeval Connect 4 problem and took note of my gaps in planning, architecture, data structure, and more 🧠
Enjoyed ramen, more pastries, and watched I Feel Pretty 🍜
Mug of tea next to a laptop with screen containing lines of code on top of a table in a cafe
Plastic container of kimbap, napkins, and chopsticks on a lap wearing jeans outdoors
Paper container of rice sweet donuts, korean bread bun, and croissant wrapped hotdog
Room of people sitting and standing in a room of pillers and laps all facing towards the front
Day 1
Updated my resume draft 1 and got actionable feedback to work on ✍️
Did the code in cafe post 🍵
Ate some yummy kimbap and Korean pastries 😋
Attended a AI/ML Conversations Meetup, ate free pizza, and met some lovely folks 🍕
oooh pretty~
Thank you!! I put it a lot of hard work hehehehe 😇
Of course 🥹🫶
Thank you!!!!!!! 🥹
Today marks my last day at @getpostman.bsky.social as a contractor after 3 months shipping 71 PRs, 35% commits, & 30% code reviews across 5 repos. Learned a lot and made amazing connections & overall enjoyed my time there. 10/10 would do it again. For now, looking for a full-stack SWE job ☺️
Pineapple cream, it was a nice treat~