It’s more of a
“go into a cave for six months
and hopefully
get a job
when you
emerge”
sort of thing.
How to Break Into the Tech Industry, by Haseeb Qureshi
So I think I’m going to meditate on my Guru and cocoon in tech.
Category: tech
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Worm to Butterfly
Adi Da Meditation Cave -
37,000 Tips for Jr. Software Developers
Adapted from Sean Allen
Just kidding, let’s start with 37! Mostly adapted.
- My recommendation: study software books from the top 100 list
- Learn how to learn: constant: learning
- Repetition is key
- Avoid tutorial trap: build projects
- Learn the Docs
- Cost benefit analysis: manage features to get job done on time
- How senior am i? irrelevant
- Find a mentor
- Be active on twitter: build networking relationships
- Go to meetups if you can
- Portfolio website: Visual showcase your work, pretty pics
- Create small porfolio projects, showcase lots of skills
- Create pretty ReadMe, visual / animated gifs
- Learn basic design skills
- Find the right fit in job, not first offer
- Lesser pay may be right fit
- Work in a tech hub: big city lots of tech, network effects
- Work full-time first before contracting
- Show initiative
- Learn to communicate
- Show that you care
- Do great work, your reputation will follow you
- You’re not too old
- Create content if you can: build online presence
- Be patient Padawan
- 90/90 rule: there’s the first 90%, then there’s the 2nd 90%
- Which language? Do what you enjoy. Learning 2nd language is not a problem
- Don’t use front door /apply : Build relationships first
- Complete hot-tub immersion when learning
- Listen to podcasts
- Network to get contracts
- Startup or big company: it depends on preference
- Study for months for job interview, that’s nuts
- Remote work can get old: fun for 6 months…
- Dev bootcamp worth it? no, force 8-10 hours a day, cooperating, yes. maybe
- It gets easier… after a while
- No need to memorize things
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stackoverflow Developer Survey Results 2019
What pops out: The 5 most popular languages:
Most widely used language – JavaScript
The most widely used programming language is, unsurprisingly, the venerable web language JavaScript.
JavaScript has topped the list of the “most popular” programming languages in the Stack Overflow survey for the past seven years.
The language has grown beyond its roots as a simple scripting language for the web, and with the help of frameworks like React is today used to build graphical user interfaces for web and mobile apps, as well as to create server-side software running in a Node.js environment. It can even be found in software controlling IoT appliances thanks to the flow-based development tool Node-RED.
Developers are:
Developers are a lot of things!
In case you forgot:
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Online Education
I was researching how to automatically backup my computers online… and was looking for info on how to backup directories using ftp when I got “schooled”.
1: I learned I can’t recursively ftp directories.
2: I learned that there’s a better way to do what I need.
Alrighty then! How sweet online education can be.
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Somedays I end up behind where I started…
Started out today trying to figure out why my startup script wasn’t running on client’s digital signage display… and ended up overwriting my server sd-card because I have 2 raspberry pi’s and forgot midstream which one I was working on, doh!
Luckily I have a backup routine that the server runs everyday so I didn’t lose any data, just the config settings and wiki setup and ftp script.
After spending most of the day working on the script problem, the solution was very similar to what I had previous to the client sd-card failing… I think the problem may have been that I re-installed a noob version instead of the raspian version and the noob version wasn’t running lxde as a window manager. So at least I wrote down the session test in the project pi docs. And I put a piece of duct tape over the raspberry pi wiki server sd-card so it won’t be so easy to pull it out next time without realizing there’s a reason that piece of tape is there!