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About me
My name is Nicole. I’m a software engineer currently looking for my next thing. At the end of 2024 I spent time at The Recurse Center. In my career, I’m a generalist and have worked at Khan Academy (mobile apps, javascript frontends, the login system, design, and technical project management), Everlane (mobile apps, team lead), and ModCloth (mobile apps, web apps) and others.
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FAQ
Why are your notes public?
My notes are mostly for my reference. I find that I go back and look for things pretty frequently. Obsidian especially makes this easy. It’s often nice to be able to share notes and reference with other people too. And I really believe in the open web. The best way to share something with somebody is a URL. Slack/Discord/Zullip come and go. Question and Answer sites are owned by someone else and might decide to use your notes for something. Social websites rise and fall. The point is its nice to have a home, it’s nice to be able to share.
My notes are often just notes. They’re not polished, they’re probably full of spelling and grammar mistakes. I hope they’re helpful or at least give you an idea of how I’ve thought about things.
Are all your notes public?
No! I have a tick box at the start of all notes that defaults to not-public. I often take notes on things that are sensitive and shouldn’t be published on the open web.
As a general rule I keep my dailies public and default to not-public for everything else.
How are your notes managed?
They’re a big folder of markdown and images. I use Obsidianto manage them because I like the interface (especially the calendar) but I’m not tied to it. Obsidian syncs every couple of minutes with a git repo (using obsidian-git). After the git push is received there’s a little script that combines my notes with a template using Quartz and generates static HTML files. Those get shipped off to a server (it’s been Github pages, Netlify, and Cloudflare pages at different times) and then you see them.
It sounds complicated but it was mostly a “setup once, run forever” kind of thing.