Rafael Mendiola

Getting Hired in Tech in 2025 Nurture your skills, become discoverable, and get prepared for the AI paradigm shift

Gave a talk at Boston Code & Coffee on How to Get Hired in Tech in 2025. Opinionated advice on leveling up, being discoverable, and adapting to AI. Slides + vibe-coded visuals by Claude Code + DALL·E:

getting-hired.raf.dev

I like this slide

Tomorrow I'm giving a small talk about how to get hired as a software eng in 2025. I built my self a slide presentation webapp, and I can get Claude Code to automatically generate images for the slides for me using the OpenAI API. This is so much better than Keynote.

It was great seeing you there!!

Itsame, Mario

Software development in 2026

Wow that's amazing! I love the video of how it was found

This one is better

Turns out you can animate the Ender's Game book cover

a detailed chart breaking down what counts as a "blowjob brothers." The top row has a "purist" section labelled "the blowjob brothers must be a pair of males," a "neutral section labelled "the blowjob brothers may be any gender," and a "radical" section labelled "the blowjob may be any conceptual pair." The left column also has "purist," "neutral," and "radical" sections, labelled "the blowjob brothers must be explicitly aligned in some way," "the blowjob brothers are unaligned but may cooperate on a shared objective," and "the blowjob brothers may be enemies or rivals who frequently clash" respectively. Each intersection contains an example image and text, detailed as follows: Purist/Purist contains Bulk and Skull from Power Rangers, Neutral/Purist contains Shin and Noi from Dorohedoro, and Radical/Purish contains Spectacle Rock from The Legend of Zelda. Neutral/Purist contains Ryo Saeba and Umibozu from City Hunter, Neutral/Neutral contains Q and Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek Voyager, and Neutral/Radical contains the Namco and Capcom, as detailed on the boxart of the crossover game Namco X Capcom. Radical/Purist contains Kazuma Kiryu and Daisaku Kuze from Yakuza 0, Radical/Neutral contains Natsuo Ishidou and Yuzuko Mawatari from Teppu, and Radical/Radical contains the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

i made a chart

App.js Conf 2025 rétrospective de la plus grosse conférence React Native by Le Cross Platform Show SommaireDans cet épisode du Cross Platform Show, les invités discutent de leurs expériences à la conférence App.js, des ateliers sur la performance, des outils innovants comme Radon et Expo, ainsi que des annonces clés faites lors de la key...

App Conf 2025 rétrospective de la plus grosse conférence React Native https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weshipit/episodes/App-js-Conf-2025-rtrospective-de-la-plus-grosse-confrence-React-Native-e345n72 #reactnative #podcast

I recently did something similar, open-meteo doesn't require an API key: open-meteo.com

Claude Code Best Practices A blog post covering tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code across various codebases, languages, and environments.

This article has a lot of best practices, which have helped me out. I think it's really important to dig into the full capabilities of the tools you use.

www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

Custom slash commands dramatically improve the developer experience. You could maintain a document with useful prompts, but accessing them via /commands makes you more invested in creating reusable workflows. It's like using a prompt as a function.

You can still use images in the context of your conversation with Claude Code. I thought I'd lose the ability to use images switching to a terminal tool. But you can copy and paste images into Claude Code just like with Cursor.

Sub-agents solve the biggest friction with AI coding tools. The main friction is running out of context. Sub-agents let you parallelize work and save context since each has its own context. Just tell Claude to use sub-agents in your prompt.

Claude Code's planning approach is much better than Cursor. The way it responds in chat gives me confidence that it's breaking down work into tasks properly. Instead of jumping straight to implementation, it reads files first, thinks through the problem, and makes a plan.

I recently switched from Cursor to Claude Code and I like it way more. I'm a terminal person who uses Vim, and I didn't want to go back to VSCode for AI coding. Let me tell you what I like about Claude Code. 🧵

This is going to be our main coding workflow next year

Oh yeah, making a plan is great. You can ask the agent to keep improving and improving the plan, and it will give it some really nice rails to execute well on. I'm glad it was helpful!

This looks so cool

lol, "should I cancel the DJ out of respect?"

lool, I'm watching Mountainhead. "If you bust a b-nut into this app, it will give birth to a unicorn"

Ehhh, I like grouping tests in describe blocks because it's easy to do manipulation like xdescribe or describe.only

Also with AI writing the tests, the unit tests are going to become kind of a black box that is a lot more thorough than what we can write, and we won't pay that much attention to them

This is so cool

I've been thinking a lot about the future of software developer jobs. I wonder what's going to happen.

On one hand there's going to be a lot of pressure to produce more.

But on the other hand, AI gives developers a lot of power and freedom to build whatever they want.

That's reasonable. Maybe the avant-garde will always exist. I think there will always be people who push the boundaries of what's available to them, but I'm worried we'll be so stratified that newer practices don't get democratized.

This is a really good idea

Wow thank you David!

nice shout-out at App.js conf for @coolsoftware.dev !