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Ashton 🏳️‍🌈 @sirashtondev.bsky.social · 23h

I am happy to announce Sam’s website is finished! Here you can leave your well wishes for him as he continues his journey kicking cancer’s ass once and for all. Please please share! getbettersam-6eb58.web.app

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kept getting 'Message object can't be awaited' when using the Anthropic client. Turns out I was using the sync client but calling it with await. Switching to AsyncAnthropic fixed it, and it also keeps the server from blocking so it can handle other requests in the meantime

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would ya try a dill pickle pizza? Finally trying it from State Fair in MN

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Learning more from @deeplearningai.bsky.social about zero-shot prompting where you don't provide any examples vs one-shot and two-shot, there are examples provided into the prompts

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the most recent pieces of feedback I received in an interview was to incorporate more helper functions to clean up my logic a bit. So, we’re putting that feedback to work in today’s @codewars.bsky.social 🐍 algorithms

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A React lesson I keep catching myself relearning: I tend to jump straight to the happy path, but I need to pause and ask: “What if it doesn’t?” Handle the unhappy path early, return, then let the rest of the code focus on the happy path. #webdev

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Walking through the React component tree for my project on Twitch last night Thank you to those who join :) Please join us next time as we continue to build more of this project using React, TypeScript, and FastAPI

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only way to get better is to do more Drawing my MVP system design for a horoscope app for first submission: 1) client sends their info to server 2) server stores info in DB 3) server talks with Claude 4) Server saves Claude's response 5) server sends horoscope JSON to client

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trust that the universe works for you. Although you may not see it now, everything will unfold and all the right pieces will settle in ❤️

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Running on this treadmill this morning and about to call it quits but you're watching Physical 100 and they state it's their mental >> physical strength to endure and sustain throughout the challenges. Was able to incorporate in another 10 mins of run

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

xA neat trick I learned from #codewithtoushif If you go to a repo link, type in diagram after git, it will display the codebase architecture 🤯

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This was a fun one! I knew I had to split the string by ; and then be able to retrieve first name and last name. Afterwards, then I can sort by last name since they come first in the result list Time complexity is O(n log n ) due to sorting space is O(N)

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My fav part of the the day is going to sleep so I can wake up to a good cup of coffee hehe ☕️

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wired up @sentry.io to add real observability to Job Radar's backend. Threw a deliberate error to test it end-to-end and confirmed I still get live terminal logs Loved seeing the breadcrumbs and stack trace) at the same time.

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dug into @python.org logging module today I saw how log levels work and used it to trace through what my live agent was doing that started with a count of 0 jobs foundx Next up: hoping to wire it up with @sentry.io for proper observability instead of watching terminal output live.

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I created a that loop actually works where instead of writing one function that does those four things in order every time, I gave the model three tools and let it decide how to use them. I go more in depth about this in my blog about the agent loop in my recent project

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Read the prompt and immediately thought of two pointers starting from idx 0 and the all the way to the right, but then I realized, I could create a new string and swap out the characters for a and b

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"I'm tired, Grandpa" of manually checking my builds. 😭 So I built a GitHub Actions workflow to do it for me. The workflow: → Finds the project folder → Pulls the repo code → Installs dependencies → Builds the frontend + backend → Fails if something breaks more automated confidence. 🤖

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We making, breaking, and creating things over on Twitch. Come through friends and figure out how I did a screenshot with no hands lol

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

to stay hydrated or to stay caffeinated? Hydrated so I quench my thirst or stay caffeinated to keep working

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's starting to sink in a bit more as I study system design. At its core, an app boils down to reads and writes If a system is read-heavy, scale it for high availability (so users can always get data quickly). If a system is write-heavy, we tune it for strict consistency

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freeCodeCamp.org @freecodecamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Python is a great first programming language, especially when you learn it by building projects. In this course, Treasure walks you through coding an expense splitter, word game, & karaoke queue manager. You'll practice tons of key Python concepts as you go. www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-p...

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Blogging about architectural decisions I've considered in my most recent project One of them was debating between creating an agentic workflow vs traditional cyclic workflow Instead of hardcoding every possible path, I decided to give the agents more autonomy

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Spent this week hardening a public endpoint on my Job Radar project (an agent that finds and scores junior SWE job postings), and incorporate rate limiting by IP using #slowapi Ran a curl command to test and it came out as 200 as successful than 429 (Too Many Requests) #fastapi

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I built out a demo example to showcase the agent's reasoning process itself The step-by-step tool-calling loop replayed with realistic pacing where Claude can add in its own narration and scoring reasoning

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

learning how to build my first MCP app with @nickyt.online and whoever Jason might be ;) lol @commityourcode.bsky.social

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@thebethanyann.bsky.social Learning from Bethany that about 80% of the features in tech aren't used and can't wait to learn more about product engineering from her! @commityourcode.bsky.social

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@mayanwolfe.com got me thinking about water pipes this morning and data Tap in to learn more about what a data engineer does #commityourcode

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

listening on @chriswix.bsky.social talk about his experience of using AI in docs and seeing docs as a product and not an after product and I might have to start using #Vale soon #commityourcode

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

how to know if tests are running? I ran some happy paths Had to assemble #jest config files and test script

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love learning origin stories and what problems they were trying to solve While watching #hellointerview Youtube about Cassandra, I learned it was created by Avinash Lakshman, who was also co-creater of Amazon's Dynamo, to solve FB inbox messaging system

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

implementing tool calling by creating handlers behind each tool #Claude can call. when it decides to call one, my code looks up the real function and runs it. #aiagent

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A yapping session happening with link in bio where we will tackle some algos, talk about AI agents, work on some frontend Come hang out: m.twitch.tv/maiproject21...

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Created a public demo of an AI agent = fun idea, expensive if you don't think it through. Allowed one run per email and added pre-captured agent traces instead of live API calls each time. Prospects can watch and see the experience and have no surprise bill.

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Typically, I like to add in each item into the stack, then do some algos to it, similar to Valid Paren problem, but for this problem, I learned to be patient and check first before adding to the stack. Any other way you would have solved it?

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Morning's algo consisted of buying and selling stack pt deux I solved my algo similar to how pt: 1 but turns out I can improve the algo by looking at the previous number if it's less than current's price today

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Shipped guest previews today with lots of conditional rendering 👀 Not logged in → sample dashboard. Logged in → your real results.

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Started with one navbar for my landing page + dashboard. Then I realized one navbar is handling a lot of different links on landing vs dashboard, and I'd have to consider auth state Would you rather implement two navbars or one navbar that handles all?

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Built a shared AuthLayout for my job-search tool so login and signup don't duplicate the same card, spacing, and error-state markup. One component, two forms

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freeCodeCamp.org @freecodecamp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you want to get into AI Engineering, there are certain skills you'll need: math, machine learning, hands-on engineering experience, etc. In this AI Engineering roadmap, Tatev covers key statistics, data science, reinforcement learning, RAG, and other concepts. www.freecodecamp.org/news/ai-engi...

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Never knew that I had to enter a repo secret per every env variables I have so the GitHub workflow would work, but we got our workflow going! 🥳

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Initially, I wanted to write out '0123456789' but then I realized the numbers were going to be bigger than I anticipated so it was best to lead with the other operations instead What would you have done differently?

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I love automating my process with software Instead of looking at multiple sites for job postings, I'm using #adzuna api to assist with finding jobs in my local area, score the job posting, and add to my dashboard ;)

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

OMG! I know more than I thought I did?!! Lots of room for improvement on how to optimize my system design on how users will be able to search for events

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This one took me awhile to see the pattern, but I started to realize it was similar to Valid Parens problem using a stack

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

PATTERNS THEY'RE EVERYWHERE system designs were overwhelming to learn at first but I realized there are patterns one can follow similar to algorithm patterns to help guide you in the right direction to solve it

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

will make an assumption about ';' in some places of your code I thought the bug for this #codewar was due to using 'var' but it was because the { sat on a new line below so JS assumed it was return; in line 3💡

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