The Infamous Intro Post

OK, here we go. So, this blog is part of my capstone (CS 467) journey, so let’s friggin’ go.

I said some of this in my intro already – I was a professional musician in a past life. (Or I still am, sort of? Old habits die hard.) At any rate, I decided trying to “do music” for a living was a bit soul-crushing and actively made me hate music, so I’d rather teach rocks to do math for a living and do the music for fun. So here we are.

So far, software engineering seems a lot like the arts world. You send out hundreds of applications, maybe hear back from three or four of them if you’re lucky, and then you just kind of say ok, whatever, hire me or don’t. I call it the “Yeet Now or Forever Hold Your Peace” method of interviewing. (I don’t actually call it that, but it popped into my head just now, so you have to live with it, too.)

At any rate, this kind of apply first and learn things later approach got me an internship last summer with… uh, ok, since I had to sign some NDA paperwork let’s just say it was a place that rhymes with BLAMAZON. I spent the whole summer writing a ******* ***** to help automate *** ********* and **********. (MAN those lawyers are good.)

So, if you haven’t figured it out by now, I tend to learn new things by just diving in, getting my hands dirty, doing everything wrong, going to read the docs, shouting “WHY ARE DOCS ALWAYS SO BAD???!!??”, going to StackOverflow, and then finally building a thing that kind of works. I’m looking forward to seeing what new and interesting technologies I’ll get to break for this project.

Until next time, party on, Garth.