Yes, laid off in 2023 and haven't found a tech job since. Due to significant life and family health circumstances, anything that isn't a career job is hard to justify while caring for myself and others.
I've spent the last two years volunteering a local bike co-op and getting way to into bike building and cycling generally. Additionally, I spend a lot of time doing what I can to help my local trans community (that I am a part of). This work has gifted me with perspectives I would never have seen otherwise, and has really helped my organizational and soft skills.
Tech wise, I only do hobby projects now, and it's really wonderful in some ways. Having the professional experience I do, but the free time to work on projects that I want has helped me learn so much and really push my understanding of all sorts of technology.
When the job market eventually gets better, I will be able to approach it with a confidence that I didn't feel was earned before. That's really my cope lol
Why do you think anyone would want to hire you when things get better vs people that are „more in the game“, like experienced people without a career gap?
Not asking to be mean, asking because I am afraid of that happening to me and looking for perspective.
Gaps are not worth worrying about unless you have < 5 years exp. At least no one has ever mentioned it. My career is long so experience is just a summary anyway. Use years only and learn how to freelance (or look like it) during lean times.
I guess it depends on who reads it but I don't see any issue with it. FWIW - I'm not a recruiter it manager but I've been an interviewer at various tech companies.
My impression from the resume is that she's relatively junior with limited experience, but not zero, and her experience is in unsexy tech stacks, and she did a bootcamp. So she is fighting am uphill battle in a tough market. But I don't get the impression that she's unprofessional or immature because of the whimsical website.
I'm any case, I wish her luck, and I believe that there are roles out there that would be a good fit for her and she can gain more experience. She just needs that first break... Which is hard to get
Did you read her website on your phone or your computer? It looks mostly fine on the phone (the CV page at least) but it is really bad on any larger screen.
I've only tried Claude in Cursor's free trial, but it became very confused during a React 19 upgrade even after showing it a guide. It also kept telling me to install irrelevant dependencies saying my code would not work without them. My experience was more or less shared with several other senior devs using their companies AI subscriptions. Are we all using the tools wrong? Or is there just an expected amount of having to fight with the machine to get a usable result?
> I've only tried Claude in Cursor's free trial, but it became very confused during a React 19 upgrade even after showing it a guide.
I have never used Cursor, but I see more and more people who used LLMs specifically via Cursor complain. It makes me think there's an issue specifically with Cursor, e.g., they try to save on tokens and end up not including enough context in the prompt.
> I've only tried Claude in Cursor's free trial, but it became very confused during a React 19 upgrade even after showing it a guide.
I am working on a Next.js 15 / React 19 app, and at least 95% of code is written by Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, and I barely ever need to "fight" it really. But it's not a Cursor workflow of course. I keep a directory with LLM-readable documentation[0], use a repository serialization tool to serialize my repository into a prompt (this includes both the source code and the LLM-readable documentation), and send it to Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview. It ends up being over 100K tokens per query but works really well for me.
I'm a strong believer that LLMs are tools and when wielded by talented and experienced developers they are somewhere in the danger category of Stack Overflow and transitive dependencies. This is not a critique of your project, or really the quality of LLMs, but when I see 90% of a 11,000+ loc project written in Claude, it just feels sort of depressing in a way I haven't processed yet.
I love foss, I love browsing projects of all quality levels and vintages and seeing how things were built. I love learning new patterns and sometimes even bickering over their strengths and weaknesses. An LLM generated code base hardly makes me even want to engage with it...
Perhaps these feelings are somewhat analogous to hardcopies vs ebooks? My opinions have changed over time and I read and collect both. Have you had similar thoughts and gotten over them? Do you see tools like Claude in a way where this isn't an issue?
You're romanticizing software. To place more value in the code than the outcome. There's nothing wrong with that, but most people that use software don't think about it that way.
Hi I'm Elanora, I'm a fullstack engineer, currently redoing my personal site and relearning how to walk after a cycling injury lol. My favorite feeling in this industry is looking at something I contributed to and being proud enough to attempt to explain why it is cool to my non-technical friends and family. I like to bring that energy to every project I work on and team I work with. Feel free to email me or contact me on the LinkedIn linked in my resume.
I don't understand the Musk fandom in the comments, I've never seen anything to signal to me he's been anything but a savvy investor? He's a better engineer than the average finance bro sure, but seems far from notable in any discipline this site typically cares about? His acquisition of Twitter destroyed the lives of many hard working people and has made it okay for many more companies to follow similar dark patterns (insane API pricing, furthering content lockdown, probably other stuff I don't like to see in the industry)
Bezos has had a rocket company for over a decade and never reached orbit.
I agree that Musk looks like an ass with Twitter but it's a heck of a coincidence that both Tesla and SpaceX were successful doing things nobody thought was possible.
Having spent some time in corporate america, it's a pretty low bar for execs in technical fields. Maybe he just had to be reasonably bright and focused on the mission instead of internal politics.
I could make the same argument for me. It's a heck of a coincidence the place where I work had no product or revenue or customers before they hired me and a few years later suddenly we have 5 products, huge contracts, and are one of the most hot brand names in our AI niche.
But is my contribution interchangeable with any rando or am I a 10x engineer? Was my contribution even net positive or did others on my team carry my dead weight to the finish line?
Once you've seen a rocket land itself Musk looks like a visionary - that was the turning point for me personally.
I'm a huge space nerd and Musk seems to understand future trends and how to get in early regardless of how it looks from the outside. So a bit of savvy investor mixed in with passionate about product in ways you don't expect from a money man.
Plus his opinions just coincide with a lot of my opinions when i hear his interviews. The X stuff seems like something I can't see yet coz i'm not a social media guy and avoid it in general. I've actually started using twitter more as a consequence of the rebrand coz I want to see if it's going anywhere.
As for the "dark patterns" i think it's just a recession/AI content theft hitting and it was gonna happen anyways, everyone was just holding their breath hoping they weren't the first in line.
Am I missing something? Or is there no actual documentation for its current incarnation? Clicking the link and then following the link for documentation is an infinite loop.
Seconding this recommendation,my DT990s are the most comfortable headphones I have ever owned. They are the only pair I can wear for most of the day and feel no fatigue.
console.table() is a favorite of mine for a variety of reasons, but one of the most important to me is that it's really easy to quickly find a giant table in a wall of text if I'm logging a bunch of other stuff.
I've spent the last two years volunteering a local bike co-op and getting way to into bike building and cycling generally. Additionally, I spend a lot of time doing what I can to help my local trans community (that I am a part of). This work has gifted me with perspectives I would never have seen otherwise, and has really helped my organizational and soft skills.
Tech wise, I only do hobby projects now, and it's really wonderful in some ways. Having the professional experience I do, but the free time to work on projects that I want has helped me learn so much and really push my understanding of all sorts of technology.
When the job market eventually gets better, I will be able to approach it with a confidence that I didn't feel was earned before. That's really my cope lol
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