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Yes, I find Google a bit unreliable for documentation and I feel it's personalized search lets me down. I find DuckDuckgo to be much better for finding documentation and if I want …

I set a goal in November 2013 to become a professional developer in 5 years. Became a developer in June 2015. The first few months were figuring out what to learn but once I learne…

One of my favorite blog posts is by Patio11 where he talks about how you should position yourself as a programmer (i.e help the business make more money) The blog post can be found…

No problem. Great site.

Since you are specifically looking at services that can be provided by a small team or 1 person, I'm going to answer with services that I pay for that are managed by one person/sma…

I would not have been able to learn code without my girlfriend's support. I started teaching myself how to code in 2013 and got a job in June 2015. Although I mostly learned code i…

I have a Chrome Plugin called News Feed Eradicator for Facebook. * I find it is a terrific solution for preventing you from browsing Facebook. Now everytime, I got to Facebook out …

I have actually written about this a lot as it is one of those topics that I am fascinated with. The trick is not to try and motivate yourself but to build systems and processes to…

Thank you for correction, it is indeed called "Deep Work".

This is similar to an argument made in Cal Newport's book Deep Focus. He also goes on to argue that since we are living in an attention-deficit economy in a time when it is needed …

Looks great. Here is a quick tip that I think could really help first-time visitors and of course your own blog. I think you could add an "about" page just to let people know what …

Glad you did. Had a quick look. Found this post quite interesting http://datagenetics.com/blog/march12016/index.html

I love Scott Hanselman's blog. It's one of those blogs I check in with every so often. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/

I love the answers here. My system is pretty simple. I keep a list on Evernote every time I find a new resource to learn from. I only consider the resource (usually an online cours…