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There’s a price for everything
Dear D and H, There’s a price for everything, and that cost is always related to time. Time is the only thing that no one can get more of and everything that is worth pursuing takes time. When you’re young, you have a lot of time. And time is really “cheap”. You don’t really have…
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Dear D and H,
Hopefully when you guys are older, you’ll read these letters to you and you’ll gleam some insight into why I may or may not have done certain things for/to you. Why was daddy so strict? Why did he want me to learn Chinese? Taekwondo, brazillian jiujitsu, again? Why no TV, why no iPad? Why did…
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Web Developers Roadmap
On /r/learnprogramming, I see a lot of frustration on what to do after a basic language tutorial. There’s a lot of information on the web, but it’s still hard to know what to do next for a beginner. I’ve found that there’s not really an example of how to bridge the gap between knowing the…
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10 Steps to get Unstuck While Programming
As a beginner there will come a time when you will write something that either has a bug, doesn’t work properly, or just won’t run/compile. It will seem no matter how hard you try, you just can’t figure it out and you’ll feel absolutely stuck. So what do you do when you’re stuck? I’ve seen…
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How does a new software engineer get a job?
Finished a boot camp or online course and feeling discouraged? Looking around at job requirements and thinking about learning another language? Feeling like you worked really hard for nothing? It’s tough getting started as a software developer, so let me give you the step-by-step route that I took to getting hired as a beginner.
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Signs of Burnout and How to Prevent it and Recover.
Last week I covered talked about whether you should work overtime or not. This week, let’s talk about the effects of persistent overtime – burnout. What is burnout? What are the symptoms, and if you’re burned out, what can you do to recover?