Jan
12
My First Subscriber
Today marks the 12th consecutive day of my writing journey on the View from JQ, and the first day that
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Julie Qiu
Tech lead based in NYC, aspiring to be a better writer in 2024. Working on the Google Cloud SDK and Generative AI. Former security lead for the Go language team. Learn more at julieqiu.dev.
Jan
11
The best job search advice I've ever received
Google had a round of layoffs today, and the atmosphere internally was grim. People felt sad and anxious, yet also
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Jan
10
Competence as a practice
Recently, one of my mentors emphasized to me the importance of learning. She said that the swift pace of the
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Jan
09
Bits, bytes, and encodings
Learning about bits, bytes, characters and encodings can seem intimidating, especially when it comes to their relationships with one another.
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Jan
08
Moving from Medium to Ghost
As of today, I have consistently maintained my writing streak for all eight days in 2024! I am really proud
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Jan
07
Doing what works for you
I have often struggled with being okay with doing things my own way.
If I had to trace the reason
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Jan
06
Creating new work rituals
A lot of people I know have work rituals to be more productive and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Last
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Jan
05
Trying out Virtual Standups
My team has been feeling a little out of sync between changing product, content, UX and other requirements on a
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Jan
04
Filling up each others’ cups
A few months ago I started working with someone whom I absolutely love working with. Since our first day on
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Jan
03
Setting up a Python project
I haven’t used Python extensively for projects since 2018, the year I gave a conference talk and tutorial at
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