A year ago, I couldn't code.
This week, I'm pushing my first code @twitter.
You will have to work and study really hard, but don't let anyone tell you that you can't reach your dreams.
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Nathan Thomas
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Nathan Thomas
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- I worked on software for thisPowerwall 3
00:00 - A little over 1.5 years ago, I wrote my first lines of real code. Today, I'm teaching an internal class @Twitter about our codebase. 馃敟 If you're struggling in your coding journey right now, don't give up. You can do it. Just don't give up. 馃憤馃徎
- When I started @LambdaSchool, I decided that a good way to practice coding was to follow the example of my mentors and push code every day Earlier this month, I hit a solid year of heat on my GitHub heat graph 馃敟 It's a meaningful milestone to me in my personal journey
- I'm super excited to announce that I've been hired by @Twitter for their inaugural class of Software Engineering Apprentices 馃嵕 As an engineer at Twitter, I'll be working with (and learning from) some of the best engineers in the world! To say I'm excited is not doing it justice
- I'm starting to feel the Miami FOMO which means @FrancisSuarez is doing a great job. For those who have moved to Miami, how's life going for you? Should I come check it out once I get my second vaccine shot?
- I know everything is off the chain in tech right now, but I want to take a moment to celebrate that I just got promoted to Senior Software Engineer @loom 馃コ
- I love programming so much. It's such a creative medium. We create things with our mind and they just appear on a screen. How cool is that? I feel lucky every day to do what I do.
- I'm excited to announce I'm going to @loom as an engineer on their core feature team. My first day is tomorrow. Brief thread 馃У (1/5)
- I start tomorrow @Twitter This journey has been a year in the making. I鈥檓 excited, a bit nervous, and (above all) ready to learn more and grow. 馃敟 I鈥檇 like to take a moment to acknowledge that I wouldn鈥檛 be here without the hundreds of people who helped me along the way.
- I really liked the @vercel website contact form mouse-tracking border, so I reverse-engineered it the other day for my personal website
00:00 - Replying to @ianzelbo and @ControGorillaStep 1: You give a massive and interest-free loan to the government for an entire year
- I just took a peek at the @LambdaSchool hired channel, and it's so inspiring to see students landing tons of jobs during a pandemic. 馃敟 Congratulations to everyone (inside and outside Lambda) who has recently been hired! You've worked hard for it. You deserve it. Congrats! 馃帀
