Tagged: career

You can’t write a compelling narrative about the thing you didn’t build. Nobody gets promoted for the complexity they avoided.

Complexity looks smart. Not because it is, but because our systems are set up to reward it.

Earlier this month, I noted down Jason’s advice on how to get hired as a developer. I’d also like to add the following point from @brandon:

use the product

this is one of the first questions i ask in the interview anyways, ship and share something you’ve built on top of cloudflare. this alone will set you apart from most of the candidates, and it will show you are genuinely interested.

This complements Jason’s advice well, because it turns “show your work” into something concrete and product-specific.

Jason Lengstorf on how to get hired as a developer:

• Document what you learn publicly — consistency matters more than polish.
• Show your work — CodePen demos, personal projects or tutorials all count.
• Participate in communities — Bluesky, Mastodon, Discord.