aaron5

It's web service that allows you to channel your google docs through a more human-friendly name. So, you link

opendocs.to/your-name/resume (an example link)

to your public resume at docs.google.com/dlkjbalksdfd

It's a simple redirect service, but it just looks nicer, and I think the opendocs.to sounds natural. Got to learn a lot with this one, using Vite/React, Node, Postgres all in Docker, with a local profile that builds nginx inside with the containers, or a prod profile on the server where nginx proxies into the containers.

Anyways, check it out!

Right now, only free tier available as I some last tweaking and checking.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: A bit of everything, lately beginning Docker, Terraform, AWS

Github: https://github.com/aaron5m

Started working career as engineer almost 20 years ago, then went off to explore. Always kept up technical interests: Mathematics, Physics, Programming, Embedded Software. But unfortunately not super deep. Glad to start at the very beginning and work hard to learn and come up to speed. Can sort of go anywhere, can sort of accept any salary - just eager to build stuff well, instead of being a dilettante.

Email: [email protected]

Remote: Yes, willing to travel throughout China for onsite visits

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: PHP, Javascript, MySQL, HTML, React

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/p-aaron-mitchell-bb23b3253/

I'm a STEM teacher with a B.S. in Chem Engineering and several websites and apps online. Looking for more challenging, technical work; willing to learn your tools.

For example, what if someone figured out the average sit-time of gasoline in the jerrycan, the average fault rate and leak rate of the lesser seam, and the average production time and lifespan of the jerrycan - then decided the sometimes leakier version was better because it was lighter, more quickly manufactured, etc?

And then perhaps American soldiers were more likely to pilfer gasoline for joy-rides or bartering, or to steal and sell the jerrycans themselves to their liberated friends and lovers, or for some other reason these cans were more likely to be "lost" as the Wikipedia article vaguely mentions - thus, make the can useless without the spanner and funnel, so as to make it a little less tempting for an improper owner to run off with?

Maybe?

Just thinking out loud.

But these questions reminded me just how fascinating everyday objects can be.

This is really good! Thank you =)

When I email [email protected], my gmail times out.

Do you know why that might be? My gmail sends to other addresses.

(ps. Sorry if I've emailed like five times, haha - at least on my end it's timing out.)

Congratulations on your success!

> My company is having a hell of a time finding junior level people who actually know how to solve even the simplest of coding challenges.

If there's any small thing I could try to do for your company - something not too integral nor time-sensitive - I'd be happy to take a shot at it just for the experience. But I don't want to waste your time.

Anyways, thank you again, and best of luck to you!

However, last night I opened up that leetcode stuff - and I got lost in it! Just like some of my old physics problems, they're so interesting to puzzle out. And, granted, interest isn't enough, but it's still a nice indicator. I just had fun, just fun, going over one of those algo problems last night.

Thank you again for giving me so much of your time!

What's that old quote? "Half the work is showing up" or something like that. You just did what they asked and - boom - got the job. Well done! I'm tucking that one away under "life insights".

Thank you for taking the time to answer that question.

> Yeah! It's fun using my brain to make a living, and most importantly, I work a lot less than I had to before, for a lot more money.

Congratulations, again!

Did you put together the github site for "AI from scratch"? I can't find an "About" page - whoever's work it is, I love it.

Thank you again for pointing me in this direction.

> Instead I kept practicing and studying until I was good enough to hire for a mid-level position.

May I ask how you demonstrated how good you were to the hirer? I mean, when you were studying were you producing side-projects, contributing to github repos, going through a course that gave you grades? I hope this question isn't rude. I'm not sure how to jump over the junior dev role without my resume being auto-filtered out because of lack of experience, if that makes sense.

Anyways, congratulations! I hope you're liking your work in web development, because your story is really encouraging.

And I think you're right that I need to read code other people have written - mostly I've approached building stuff for fun, figuring it out as I go, instead of really investing in understanding. What a great suggestion.

Thank you again!

Thank you again.

And it helps to have "work" that is hard but enjoyable. Then when you're working hard, you're looking forward to rest; and when you're resting, you're looking forward to work. And you throw in a lot of "play" too, if possible (for me, sport, relationships, etc.). So, whatever you're doing, you're enjoying what you're doing AND you're looking forward to something (work, rest, or play), which adds enjoyment to the present (work, rest, or play).

My anecdotal data-point.

What other examples are there? Am I one of these people in ways I don't even realize?

I would love to be eating a meal with someone who says this, and then have a really fantastic conversation spring from it: Does this help me feel out my own blind-spots better? Is this always bad? Is this always true?

Great statement, well articulated. Thanks!

the super weird one is (i live in china currently) that there's a smiley face that is not a smiley face. i always used it. i was hip. i was fitting in. my emoticon game was making progress and then apparently i found out i was doing the equivalent of a reddit /s at the end of all my messages: "that smiley face is a fake smile" how could i know that? it's a yellow smiley face! haha