Hacker School: Week 1

I'm so excited to be attending Hacker School and to be in NY!!!

And to the contrary of what everyone said about New Yorkers, they have all been really nice.

It has been an amazing first week at Hacker School and Etsy. Etsy has a fun office and conference rooms full of crafts.  And they gave us an amazing warm welcome:

Etsy also has Eatsy's on Tuesday and Thursday which they've graciously invited all Hacker School students too! I'm loving the culture of this company. Their VP of engineering, Marc Hedlund, stopped me in the hallway to chat with me about how school is going. He was very down to earth, and I appreciated the time he took from his busy schedule to make sure everything is going well. This would be a fun company to work at.

And now to Hacker School.  I love the model of unstructured schooling they provide. You pick what you are interested in and you dig deep, and they have mentors to guide you along the way.  It's the type of learning environment for self-motivated people. Though I think if you are truly interested in a topic, you will be self motivated. We have daily check-ins to help keep us on track. One of my items is to contribute to open source projects, and that's what I did in week 1.

I had never contributed to open source before, and I've never really interacted with github. But now you can follow me at github  and see my progress :)


For my first couple of projects I picked a project called git-extras and of course the famous git, because I love git!

And to my ex-work team. Sorry it took a while to get the blog post up. It was an intense week. I miss you guys! Hope you enjoyed the pics I promised! More posts to come...