The first working iteration! A tl;dr of the first post: So to summarize the important technical details of that ~really~ long introduction post: I got really into cross stitching as a form of stress relief when I first started in big tech and had some pretty wicked imposter syndrome. (At some point need to elaborate…

Note: This part is kind of 1/4 technical details and 3/4 short story. If you just want tech details you may want to start on the second post instead! It was the Fall of 2022. I’d just moved from a tiny team of software developers at a bank to a behemoth tech company. I felt…