Apr 25 · 4 min read · For the last 15 years, I have been the guy keeping the lights on. My career did not start in a sleek corporate tech hub. It started in the trenches. I spent a full decade doing frontline technical sup
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Mar 17 · 3 min read · The Discipline of Coding Bootcamps at Mid-Career: What Nobody Tells You By Pablo M. Rivera | Hawaii, Colorado & East Haven, CT Coding bootcamps are marketed to twenty-somethings looking for their first career. Pablo M. Rivera enrolled at mid-career, ...
Join discussionFeb 12 · 9 min read · Why Traditional Career Transition Approaches Fail in 2026 The conventional wisdom of "pick a tutorial, build a side project, apply for jobs" no longer works in today's environment. Modern technical interviews assess system design thinking, production...
Join discussionJan 4 · 3 min read · The idea of a career pivot can feel equal parts exhilarating and terrifying. On one hand, there's the promise of doing work that actually excites you. On the other, there's the fear of starting over — losing your seniority, taking a pay cut, and comp...
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Jan 1 · 1 min read · Welcome to my cloud engineering journey. Hello and welcome to my blog, my name is Mark, I am a veteran of the Royal Navy I worked maintaining weapons for 13 years, and have worked in the food industry for the last 5 years. This blogs purpose is to do...
Join discussionDec 30, 2025 · 10 min read · In my last dispatch, I talked about mentors who confuse you on purpose — and how you only understand them after they're gone. This one is different. This one is about a movie that understood me better than I understood myself. 🎬 Let me confuse you. ...
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Dec 27, 2025 · 4 min read · Introduction: The Dumbest Decision That Actually Worked Picture this: You've got a stable job at Disney. You work on Star Wars games. Life is good. Then you wake up one day and think, "I'm gonna throw all this away and make a game about embalming dea...
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