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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • You mention spending a lot of time on strange and niche stuff. Don’t be ashamed of that; wear it as a badge of honor. You were solving obscure and archaic issues where the answer isn’t a Google search away. Chat GPT wouldn’t even begin to find the answers.

    And, as you should tell potential employers, you can do the same to their obscure, spaghetti-code, internal product loaded with tech debt. Because that’s what they always are. You may run into a challenge if their goal is to modernize it instead of just maintaining it, but that just means you focus on understanding it first.