Mike Chen

Also were you jking about me not being a coffee chat dud? So I actually am a coffee chat dud?

I came out of BlueSky hiding to like this post @roxyrodbeck.bsky.social. Such a pleasure chatting with you, let's do it again sometime!

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Just got off a call with THE Mike Chen.
Can confirm, not a coffee chat dud. hahaha JKJK
Great "meeting" you finally!!

PS my parents shut the air off upstairs and i'm DYING.
@chenmike.com
#careerswitcher #techcommunity

Thanks for having me on, Nick! I had a great time chatting

YouTube video by Nick Taylor From Individual Contributor to CTO with Mike Chen

Loved the convos this past week on nickyt.live with @chenmike.com. Here’s a short where Mike talks about using AI in his development workflow.

Thanks again for hanging!

youtube.com/shorts/f06d2...

From Individual Contributor to CTO Mike Chen, CTO at Motivo, joins Nick Taylor to discuss their path from individual contributor (IC), to engineering manager, to CTO.

And we're live! Come hang with @chenmike.com and me as we discuss their path from individual contributor, to engineering manager to CTO!

Excited to chat with @nickyt.online tomorrow about my journey from IC -> manager -> CTO

Planning to talk about all the adjustments I had to make along the way to be successful in each new role

Hope you can join us!

Thank you for your sacrifice so I know never to ask for help in this way

🫡

I like how this thread has become a second place for people to pitch themselves to you

🎊 Happy New Year!

I discovered a lot of very cool dev stuff in 2024, from libraries to devtools to educational resources. Thought it’d be fun to share them all, to help kickstart your 2025!

Let’s go through the list. 🧵

Umar Hansa was my go-to on devtools for years.

You can Cmd+F "Devtools" here and find some real gems umaar.com/dev-tips/.

It looks like he created a paid course moderndevtools.com too, which I may take now that I know about it! I learned a ton from him for free.

As soon as you posted it I was like "this thing is going straight to the moon"

TIL OpenAPI and Swagger are the same thing

Was very excited to see this amazing piece of work by @samwho.dev come together

It's always so impressive to see people take a pretty academic topic like Turing machines and make them so accessible. Awesome visualizations and writing. Well done!

It's never too late to learn

First time I thought about it but it's less than a week! So wild

I'm in absolute disbelief this messaging is resonating anywhere given how obviously terrible the job market is for new engineers

Haven’t tried today but I go through periods with Cursor where the tab autocomplete repeatedly just offers to delete whatever line I’m writing

It can be very finicky

Bloom Filters A visual, interactive guide to what bloom filters are, when you would use them, and how they work.

Some good replies and articles in the thread. If you're interested in a deeper look, I'd highly recommend @samwho.dev's article, which has some great visualizations of how they work and how to design an effective one

samwho.dev/bloom-filters/

I only know about them because I was asked about them once on a tech interview, bombed, and went to look it up after. Really cool to see it out in the wild (and to learn more about it from your post)

A Christmas Hackathon!

The Let's Get Technical Discord group is partaking in a holiday hackathon. They're taking a break from the Gridiron Survivor apprenticeship program to do something relaxing and fun.

Same to @nickyt.online, had a great time chatting today, one of the nicest people in the community!

Love his streams, brings in lots of different people about interesting web dev topics. Check it out when you get the chance nickyt.live

Weird but okay

Are those Wendy’s or McD’s nuggets? I didn’t see if you reported back about your experiment

I spent about an hour trying to grasp this new feature yesterday and decided to give up and revisit, and your 10-min demo helped clear up most of my confusion. Thanks for this!

Looking forward to the rest of the seris!

Really impressed by your consistency! I already dropped off on Day 10

Of course!

It seems ridiculous to have to say this, but I love being able to share links of cool stuff I find on a social media platform without getting downranked into oblivion

Congrats on finishing Zuzana! I found you the day you posted your “Some dreams…” post, and have appreciated the realness and honesty in your writing.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Finishing a series like this is a big accomplishment, and I’m looking forward to your summary!

TimeMap.org - World History Atlas The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

This is such a unique way to learn about history — an interactive map showing historical borders, battles, and people of note

One of the most interesting things I've seen on the internet in awhile

www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/r...

Thanks Brittany!

It's interesting, I do tend to have a ton to say about Big Tech but I rarely write about it. Not wanting to bite the hand that fed me and all that. Maybe I'll reconsider whether I should change that next year!