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hub 327 captures 13 sep 2022 26 jul 2025 nov dec jan 05 2021 2022 2023 success fail about this capture timestamps the wayback machine http web archive org web 20221205071308 https github com readme stories aaron francis skip to content toggle navigation sign up product actions automate any workflow packages host and manage packages security find and fix vulnerabilities codespaces instant dev environments copilot write better code with ai code review manage code changes issues plan and track work discussions collaborate outside of code explore all features documentation github skills blog solutions for enterprise teams startups education by solution ci cd automation devops devsecops case studies customer stories resources open source github sponsors fund open source developers the readme project github community articles repositories topics trending collections pricing in this user all github jump to no suggested jump to results in this user all github jump to search all github jump to in this user all github jump to sign in sign up message sometimes they say yes aaron on playing it uncool advocating for yourself and asking for your dream job aaron francis aarondfrancis hello my name is aaron i live in dallas with my wonderful wife jennifer and our twins i recently started my dream job as a marketing engineer at tuple i love making things constantly have a side project going and am always interested in processes and automation i m also a cpa and former big 4 accountant and previously managed computers people and some robots at a property tax firm follow dallas texas aarondfrancis https aaronfrancis com sponsoring the readme project amplifies the voices of the open source community the maintainers developers and teams whose contributions move the world forward every day the readme project menu close browse by story type featured articles developer stories guides the readme podcast explore topics see all open source culture security devops nominate a developer support the community also in guides publishing your work increases your luck i got my master s in accounting but as it turns out i hate accounting and love software i ve been quietly part of the laravel community for about 10 years but then 18 months ago things changed people in the community kept putting out this awesome software work and every time they tweeted about it i thought oh wow all this work they re doing is very impressive i was doing a lot of programming myself but i never talked about any of it held back by fear i saw others sharing talking and having conversations and my first instinct was bitterness i had projects just like theirs it should be me i thought why don t i get any credit the difference was that they did the work and then they shared it i saw two ways forward i could lean into bitterness and wonder why people didn t like my work or i could look inward i chose the latter through a lot of work and counseling i realized i was afraid of what people would say if i put my work out there would they think it was dumb would no one care at all i realized i could go full on angry programmer or i could give up the fear and just try it myself when you turn 30 you think you re old but then you turn 32 and realize you re actually really young it s early you can still shape your career i was already doing cool stuff and i could start telling people about it i would rather put myself out there than find myself at the end of my career full of regret wishing i had taken more risks the worst thing that would happen is people wouldn t say anything i was doing cool stuff and i could start telling people about it i would rather put myself out there than find myself at the end of my career full of regret wishing i had taken more risks on letting go of fear and lifting up others my first step was to share more in public spaces i focused on laravel and the laravel community and they mainly communicated on twitter i established three rules for myself on twitter because i didn t want it to turn into a toxic hellscape first lift people up when someone does something even remotely cool it takes almost no effort to respond or quote tweet and say as much second stay positive nobody is drawn to negative vibes on twitter third share what you re doing because people are drawn to other people in motion they ll either relate or be inspired following these rules set up a mindset shift that changed my life beyond my wildest dreams yes i got more followers but that s the outer ring the inner ring is the people who actually become your friends and both rings got a lot bigger people i had looked up to for years would message me and say hey man that s cool how did you do this thing i can t get it to work here can you help me that s when i realized i was now friends with these inspiring people i unlocked a new way of building community and making friends by putting my pride aside and not caring so much what everyone thought my mental journey started with letting go of my fear and sharing my work i was then able to stop thinking about myself so much and start lifting other people up these small but vital mental shifts multiplied my connections within the community now i have formed genuine friendships and talk to some of those people every day this would have never happened if i was just sitting in the corner being bitter that nobody paid any attention to me this would have never happened if i was just sitting in the corner being bitter that nobody paid any attention to me driving a runaway train in 2021 my wife and i had just had our twins so i had eight weeks of paternity leave while the kids napped i hacked away at open source tweeted a bunch and had the time of my life i worked on a package called sidecar which allows you to execute aws lambda functions from your laravel app so if you needed node go or some other programming language in your laravel app this package would deploy execute and manage those functions for you it started to get some traction in the laravel ecosystem and felt like a runaway train in a good way then somebody in the community asked if i wanted to give a talk at the next virtual meet up i freaked out this was it my big break it was my first conference talk and first live coding presentation i was super nervous but i prepared like crazy because i needed to seize the opportunity when it came time to give the talk there weren t many people watching but i did what i set out to do and it felt like a million bucks then laracon opened their cfp for their february 2022 conference with another amazing opportunity at hand i submitted my proposal and linked back to my first talk so there was a public proof of work i was selected to give a talk and took two days off work to practice 40 times because i knew i needed to faithfully execute it i took a risk and live coded and live deployed to aws during my talk a million things could have gone wrong but they didn t and about 4 000 people saw it after that suddenly people couldn t wait to talk to the person who developed this new package all i could think was that i wrote this package eight months ago and nobody cared it had already felt like sidecar had been an overnight success but there was more in store people dmed me saying i came out of nowhere meanwhile it felt like i d been toiling away for 1 000 years but i get it from other people s perspectives i came out of nowhere but the secret is just working hard shifting your mindset and finding opportunities to share your work then somebody in the community asked if i wanted to give a talk at the next virtual meet up i was freaking out this was it my big break embracing excitement as a strategy twitter is one of the greatest tools for developers because there are so many of us on there a lot of people are trying really hard to look cool on twitter and in life excitement and being cool can be linked but are often on different sides of the spectrum people can try so hard to be cool that they re never excited about anything i always want to be 100 authentic excitement as a strategy is underrated it s not prescriptive or anything but i put a lot of thought into my twitter presence i m very transparent when i find something cool i get excited i become a hype man sometimes it s my work sometimes it s other people s work but i am not afraid to not play it cool i think that s one of the things that made my laracon talk work i was visibly excited and that translates people feel that and the excitement propagates out the outsized positive impact of quote tweeting somebody and saying something positive about them is a manifestation of being someone else s hype person i want to celebrate the work that i love i want to leverage my platform enthusiasm and energy to help others i don t know if it will propel them into financial success but i know it s going to make them feel great and it may put their message in front of the one person that needs to see it the way i run my public presence is by giving others in the community pretty much exactly what i needed at the beginning of my journey we should tell other people when they do a good job if you have a legit criticism you should dm them if you have a nit picky bs criticism leave it alone if you build something great the people are not necessarily going to come nobody thinks about you 1 100th as much as you think about you there s also this fear of talking about your own stuff because it seems scammy there s a huge difference between buy my thing buy my thing and look how cool this is this is how you can use it people are afraid to be the dork who s excited but people are drawn to that when you come to twitter my bio says that i tweet about laravel building products and developer marketing i tweet about those things because it s important to me to be thoughtful about your content while still being real and authentic in fact one of the greatest compliments i got was when i reached out to adam elmore and offered to pay his hourly rate for some career advice he said oh no i m happy to talk to friends for free and wow i was so honored then i got on a call with him and he said you know i really love following you on twitter because you re a real person and i thought i ve nailed it this guy s got 12 000 followers and is someone i look up to and to hear him say i was a real person on twitter made me feel better than any vanity number this guy s got 12 000 followers and is someone i look up to and to hear him say i was a real person on twitter made me feel better than any vanity number asking for what you want including your dream job i don t know if it s the way i was raised but i have this internalized negative association with advocating for myself as if being my own advocate somehow stands opposed to being humble one of the big things i ve learned along the way is that it s okay to ask for things you want if you want a promotion ask for the promotion if you want to give a conference talk ask if you can give a conference talk if you want to be on a podcast ask no business conference podcast or person can advocate for you better than you can advocate for yourself you can and should be your own best advocate for four and a half years i worked at a property tax firm then i saw tuple s ceo ben orenstein ask on twitter are you a developer who makes things that other developers find interesting if so we want to hire you and pay you handsomely to keep doing that at tuple tuple is a beloved darling in our little indie software community they make incredible software and they re bootstrapped which is like its own religion ben was a ruby guy for a long time and has been around forever he s just out there in public and is so friendly so i saw this tweet and thought yeah for real that s me i put together a page on my website to show what i d done basically my public proof of work and sent it to ben a week later he responded and we got on a call ben said i could build anything that i wanted like these robots create a youtube series about it write blogs about it go to conferences whatever basically the job is to build cool stuff and talk about it i was in awe it was the perfect combination of what i d been doing the past 10 years even though i d only been talking about it for one ben has since told me that showing him that public proof of work de risked me as a candidate because he knew the guidelines i operated under he thought my pitch was thoughtful and preferred that i had written a bulleted summary instead of just dming links with no context he said i really appreciate the level of emotional intelligence it took to make it cohesive and coherent for me he didn t have to hope i could do the job he had to hope i would keep doing the job and now i am even sharing my story here was tied to the realization that i could just ask for what i want caleb porzio actually reached out to me after my laracon talk and said dude that was an effing unbelievable talk way to go you should be 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