2 p.m. Today is a day without calls, which is fine. I have three scheduled for next week and a couple where I need to provide some times to people. I’m still…
Author: Greg Bulmash
The Coding Interview: Implement a Bubble Sort
This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. I’ve had 8 different blogs since 1995, two of…
Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 2 – Day 3
Last Night I’d mentioned a contact from a recruiter who had recruited me a few years ago, but some uncertainty about whether or not I had the bonafides needed to be cleared…
The Coding Interview: Implement Binary Search
In this implementation of a binary search, you’re presented a sorted array of values and a target value to find within it.
The Coding Interview: Find the Symmetric Difference
The concept is to find the numbers in two arrays that do not repeat in both. If you’re comparing more than 2 arrays, you compare the next array (and beyond) to the result of the last comparison.
Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 2 Day 2
12:30 p.m. I found three interesting roles on LinkedIn last night and applied for them. No response yet, but it’s only halfwayish through the day on the West Coast as I write…
Notes from the Job Hunt: Week 2 – Day 1
3:00 p.m. I honestly thought I was going to have to get at this later today. Between incoming contacts, a doctor appointment, and 3 calls, I was going to be pretty busy…
Notes from the Job Hunt: Day 4
Noon Friday morning has been minimal on the legit front, but last night I decided to add CareerBuilder (mostly for entertainment value) and improve my Monster profile, sparking a wave of new…
Alien Shootz – a Space Invaders clone
Here’s another game demo rescued from the old site. I created this using the Phaser JavaScript game library, back in 2018, for the purposes of teaching the kids at Seattle CoderDojo how…
Notes from the Job Hunt: Day 3
I’m “liveblogging” with 10 a.m.(ish) and 5 p.m.(ish) updates. 10 a.m. Last night I got a response from the recruiter I knew from our interactions ~4 years ago. Yes, the job is…
Notes from the Job Hunt: Day 2
I’ve decided to sort of “live blog” this with periodic updates to the post throughout the day. 10 a.m. Woke up this morning, got myself some spam… Woke up to three recruiter…
Simon Clone in JS
In salvaging content from Yiddish.Ninja, I found some playable demos from my retro gaming class at Seattle CoderDojo. The first full game was a Simon clone. This was interesting in a separate…
Notes from the Job Hunt: Day 1
Set up calls with two corporate recruiters, one who hit me up last week via inMail, one responding to me applying via LinkedIn. Really starting to appreciate Calendly. It eliminates a lot…
Do Personal Myths Hold You Back?
We find ourselves confronted with people who are better than us at something and we convince ourselves it’s because they have an innate talent we don’t have. Usually it’s just that they’ve had more exposure, more practice, and often more interest. But because we convince ourselves mastery of that thing boils down to talent, rather than hard work, we start to believe that we can’t master it.
Developer Job Hunting Tip: Say Yes
I’m starting a new job hunt after my break tomorrow. Even with a pretty good resume and reputation, it’s scary. I’ve seen jobs I thought I’d be perfect for and didn’t even…