Locknote: Confessions of an Imposter
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Confesses can't implement Quicksort even with Co‑Pilot and stops Advent of Code day eight when Dijkstra and Fibonacci‑heap details appear; reports learning Zig, using Visual Studio and GitHub snippets, and reading .NET runtime and ASP.NET Core source to learn high‑performance patterns. Describes designing an OWIN delegate that almost shipped, getting into programming via a three‑month trainee job (lied about age to be hired), and repeatedly relying on copying and adapting existing code to make things work.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 10:00Early education
- 20:00First steps into programming
- 30:00Career growth
- 40:00Personal struggles
- 50:00Overcoming imposter syndrome
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