Nelson Figueroa

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What I Actually Want To Say in Tech Interviews

Apr 14 · 2 min read · > "Why do you want to work for our company?" Your company has an opening that I believe I am qualified for that also pays more than my current position. I also need money to pay for bills, groceries,

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How to Use an AWS S3 Bucket as a Pulumi State Backend

Apr 8 · 5 min read · I'll be starting from scratch and creating an IAM user with access to an S3 bucket that will be used to store the Pulumi state file. If you're working in an enterprise setting, your authentication met

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I Created My First AI-assisted Pull Request and I Feel Like a Fraud

Apr 2 · 3 min read · I created my first AI pull request for Chroma, which is the default syntax highlighter used in Hugo. I used Claude Code for that PR. I didn't learn anything. I felt like I was flinging slop over the w

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