Software developer meeting

Ok, so in an effort to hold myself accountable and keep the momentum going, I want to share two updates on some meetings I had over the past couple of days.

When I first moved here, I was very, very intentional about the people I wanted in my network and whose network I wanted to be part of. Because of that, there’s someone I met about three years ago—a full-stack engineer. We’d run into each other occasionally around town, chat over drinks here and there, but it wasn’t until recently that we reconnected.

I posted on IG: “Does anyone know Flutter?” For the uninitiated, Flutter is a cross-platform UI toolkit that lets you reuse code across operating systems like iOS and Android while still being able to interface directly with platform-specific services. Basically—blah blah blah—yada yada yada, but also super important!

Anyway, this post isn’t about Flutter. It’s about the fact that this person saw my post, reached out, and agreed to meet me for coffee. We met yesterday for about an hour and a half, and he gave me some great insights into what I was thinking, how to think about what I was thinking, and other considerations I should probably think about. (Yes, when you’re not a super technical person—me—it’s invaluable to have connections who can point you in the right direction.)

After that meeting, I went home and worked on a prototype in Figma. I spent, no joke, three hours trying to figure out how to create an animated dropdown menu. I ended up going with radio buttons, but that’s probably not the final solution. I also made some changes to my tech stack because—well—it was advised, and I researched the pros and cons based on what they suggested.

So, that’s that update. Now, let’s talk about my meeting today. Yes, it requires another blog post. You’ll survive!