🍬 gradients + job-seeker backpack
Hello, friend!
Changes seemed to be the only constant element around me over the past two months.
In a nutshell, I changed jobs and struggled with covid affecting my family overseas. In these moments of turmoil, two things helped me immensely: sleepcasts on Headspace that quieted my mind, and this quote by the wonderful Octavia Butler that recentered me daily:
There's nothing new under the Sun but there are new Suns.
Below I'm linking a couple of resources for job seekers that I found especially helpful during my recent transitions.
I know that the times are tough now. Please remember to take breaks and rest well.
✨ Lovely events
🔻 Egghead Talks for job seekers
The Egghead Talks will feature two speakers this week:
- Shaundai Person will talk about standing out as a "non-traditional applicant",
- Tyler Clark will share some tips on mastering the JS interview.
The talks are happening on Mar 24th at 11AM PST / 2PM EST. RSVP here.
🔻 Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarships
The GHC is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists with talks, workshops and networking time. This year it offers three scholarships:
- Students and Faculty Scholarship for undergraduate students, graduate students, or post-doc students, or faculty;
- Women in Boot Camp Scholarship for women from alternative tech programs, such as boot camps and coding schools;
- Women of Color in Technology Complimentary Registration.
The scholarships open on 24 March 2021.
🔻 Season of Docs + Tech Writing Courses by Google
If you'd like to explore tech writing as a possible career path, or you just enjoy it and would like to contribute to Open Source, consider applying to Season of Docs, a Google scholarship program to write tech documentation.
I recently participated in Google's free tech writing courses and I really enjoyed them. They are free and you get to know a few nice folks. Check the schedule to see future sessions in March and April. No registration needed.
✨ Dev Snacks - gradient corner
I loooove gradients and I thought I'd share my most treasured links with you:
- Quick inspiration: here's a set of beautiful conic gradients, a soothing gradient collection palette, and for people who seek more chill, a pastel-only gradient generator by Kyle Shook
- For DIY aficionados: Clara B. created a noise and gradient console that brings your hipster game to the next level, and this mesh gradient generator helps you create colorful swirlies that seem to be all the hype these days
- Debugging: when dealing with pixel-imperfect gradients, I found this article on jagged edges by Mandy Michael very helpful.
✨ All the Fluff
- Have you seen this amazing free-to-use Igbo-English dictionary by Ijemma Onwuzulike? This is an open source project and you can contribute your code, design or language skills!
- I am so impressed by Emmanuel Jose's delightful cut-out video he created to celebrate a Caturday! Emmanuel is a web developer who is an artist and he currently goes through the 100 Days of Code challenge -- show him some love!
- Did you know that QueerJS has now a Discord server? This meetup and community is definitely a good place to connect to other queer folks!
- If observing folks learn in public inspires you to stop procrastinating, consider following and cheering for Rahul who publishes his notes as he weaves his way through the JS jungle
✨ Job-seeker backpack
As I was recently in a blitz-interviewing mode, here are some resources I found extremely helpful:
- Applying: a thread on non-evil tech companies with links to their career pages
- Interviewing: a thread by @kefimochi with cultural interview questions that help you spot the red flags, a list of 3,952 tech interview questions by language, subject and level and 300 React-specific questions
- Salary Negotiaton: an article and a thread that helped me be bold during the money talk
- New team, who dis?: Julia Evans' blog on the things your manager might not know about and what to do with it
🛑 News and stuff
- Have you heard about that spinach sends emails to fight climate change?
- If you've missed Google's recent display of racism and mysogyny, as well as their disconcerting approach to ethics, here's a gist:
Dr. Timnit Gebru was pushed out of the company without a clear explanation. She said she had been fired after criticizing Google’s approach to minority hiring and, with a research paper, highlighting the harmful biases in the A.I. systems that underpin Google’s search engine and other services. (...) As Dr. Mitchell defended Dr. Gebru, the company removed her, too.
- A thousand Australian smokers decided: the world's ugliest color is Pantone 448 C , lovingly described as "dirty," "tar," and even "death." It is now used in a campaign against smoking.
- Excel strikes again -- scientists renamed a few genes because Excel kept misreading them as dates.