Bsky intro time: I’m a mostly-self-taught dev. For years, I worked as a senior engineer in the startup world. Now, I’m building my own startup applying LLMs to a “boring” space broken by compliance and organizational knowledge loss. I love food, shitposting, and tattoos. - ThreadSky

jacobherrington.dev • 162 days ago

Bsky intro time:

I’m a mostly-self-taught dev. For years, I worked as a senior engineer in the startup world.

Now, I’m building my own startup applying LLMs to a “boring” space broken by compliance and organizational knowledge loss.

I love food, shitposting, and tattoos.

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jclaxton-lean.bsky.social•113 days ago

I want to build tattoo community app.

jacobherrington.dev•113 days ago

@codynorman.com 👀

would be a fun atproto toy project tattoo focused sm

ryderross.com•136 days ago

Where can I read more about your startup?

jacobherrington.dev•135 days ago

It’s all over my LinkedIn, but I don’t tend to link stuff around it on Bsky

jacobherrington.dev•162 days ago

Early on, I had debilitating imposter syndrome, so I made a podcast and interviewed successful SWEs about imposter syndrome.

They are aging, but helpful if you feel like an outsider in tech.

Examples:
@excid3.bsky.social - https://tinyurl.com/nffa8ses

@kentcdodds.com - https://tinyurl.com/5d6tx57r

benjie.ca•161 days ago

Hey! Also a self-taught dev. That debilitating imposter syndrome thing is so real. A thing that's always caught me, is I talk to devs I look up to that have traditional engineering/comp sci backgrounds about it. They'll often say something like "Oh no don't worry everyone has that"...

benjie.ca•161 days ago

Which was not actually very comforting. I'd think, "sure, you have imposter syndrome, but I'm REALLY an imposter."

The thing that always caught me was that I was terrified that I didn't know what I didn't know. Sure the things I build work and I was getting praise, but I wondered...

benjie.ca•161 days ago

when is the shoe going to drop, and I'm going to be caught flat footed, with everyone mad at me for something I didn't know I should know?

I think there is definitely a unique flavour to the self-taught imposter syndrome.

Interestingly, I just went through a high-stakes interview process...

benjie.ca•161 days ago

I really want this job, and I really need to get out of my current job.

What amazed me a little bit, is I would get asked questions, and all of this knowledge just kind of poured out of my mouth. I seemed to actually, truly know what I was talking about. I think I've finally kind of hit...

benjie.ca•161 days ago

A point where I seem to *actually* know what I'm doing?

Sorry I realize I've totally hijacked your intro thread to talk about myself! Anyway welcome to bsky!

jacobherrington.dev•161 days ago

@cassidoo.co @avdi.codes @steveklabnik.com @alispit.tel among others have all shared similar feelings on my podcast.

@kentcdodds.com talked about feeling a specific fear of being “found out” and fired as a young dev.

We’re in good company

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