So beyond excited to announce I'm going to be MCing
@ReactMiamiConf
along with the legend himself
@ken_wheeler
🌴🌴🥳🥳
Tickets are on sale now
🥳🌴🥳🌴
LETS GO!!!!!!
Articles on remote work say you save 10 years over time by not commuting
As a woman working remote I just think about all the time I save by not doing my hair, not doing makeup & not deciding on a cute-but-work-appropriate outfit
By my calculations I've saved 210 years so far
Me: Wow I work remote now. I’m going to travel the whole world.
Me six months later: Hi I’d like to cancel my co-working membership I’m finding it difficult to leave my house and drive the ten minutes it takes to get here. Also putting on shoes seems like a lot of effort.
It’s true that you don’t need a CS degree to become a developer
But I’m starting to think we’ve undersold the importance of having a solid understanding of computer science if you want to be a great developer
If you're learning JavaScript, you've likely heard people tell you how important it is to learn the fundamentals.
But what are they? And where do you learn them?
Here's a list of JavaScript fundamentals and my favorite free resources for learning them. 👇
it's a weird time to be a programmer
- everyone's saying our jobs will be gone soon
- layoffs have hit so many of us
developers, what are you doing to stay valuable and future-proof your career?
the guy sitting next to me at the airport found out I work as a developer and his very first question was, “but isn’t coding going to be automated by AI?”
wow, is this the mainstream view?
Crazy how often I see this:
-Open source devs getting shouted at for not fixing enough issues.
-Devs who make free coding courses/tutorials getting shouted at for not offering enough free mentorship.
Stop telling the devs who contribute the most that they don't do enough.
Unpopular opinion:
The senior developers who tell juniors “you don’t need to code on the weekends!” might mean well but the thing is, those seniors probably *did* code a lot on the weekends to get to where they are now.
I asked a dev I met a few years ago at the airport what advice he had for aspiring programmers.
He said, first stop calling yourself ‘aspiring.’ That implies you aren’t something but hopefully will be someday. It undermines your self-esteem.
If you program, you’re a programmer.
It’s true that you don’t need a CS degree to become a developer.
But I’m starting to think we’ve undersold the importance of having a solid understanding of computer science if you want to be a great developer.
I know people say "always be interviewing", even when you're happy at your job
but interviewing is so exhausting, it always feels like a second full-time job
how often do people actually interview?
Watching a senior developer get stuck on a bug and then walk through his/her process for fixing it is one of the most helpful things a junior can witness.
You learn their strategy for thinking through problems, and you also realize that everyone gets stuck sometimes.
Them: developers will become obsolete. AI will write all the code.
Me: So, who will make sure the code is right? Who will debug it?
Them: Someone who is technical and understands code.
Me: So… developers?
An announcement I'm very excited about!
Are you learning JavaScript in 2020? Or are you a JS dev who wants to level up his/her skills?
Myself & 2 of my friends are starting an online JS book club. I wrote up some details below. I hope you'll join us!👇
after 6 months of being a team lead at work, I decided to go back to being a regular software developer instead
I am SO excited to write code again every single day
everyone on tech twitter:
"as a developer, what editor do you use?"
"as a developer, what language do you prefer?"
"as a developer, do u like to learn?"
me:
the "build Your own HTTP server" challenge on
@codecraftersio
is free this month
trying something fun. who wants to build this project as well and hold each other accountable to finishing it?
challenge can be done in Go, TS, C, etc. details below!
2 types of developers: those who read the Stack Overflow question first, and those who skip past it and go straight to the answer
i have literally never met the former
I think most Americans don’t read because they were forced to as kids in school.
Most homeschoolers I know were never pressured to read & now they live & breathe books.
When you’re forced to do something it becomes a chore. When you choose to do something it becomes a passion.
Once you know how to code, if you have an idea that you believe should exist in the world, you can open up your text editor and build it.
I’m continually struck by how cool this is.
Coding is a superpower.
From an early age, we’re taught that we can’t truly learn something unless we get a degree in it. That we can’t learn as effectively without school or college.
This is the most important lesson to unlearn.
You’re capable of teaching yourself so much more than you think.