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I highly recommend this book and Swyx's other work. He's thorough while also distilling down to the most important bits. Great book for people that are just starting their coding career but also for those with a good bit of experience. If you're feeling 'stuck', this is a great guide to understand how to advance your career. 'Learn in public' is probably the #1 piece of advice I'd give to anyone in tech. It helps you…
The book may be an excellent resource, but this appears to be just an advert - are there free examples you can point us to? It would be better to link directly to that page I think.
hi! - there wasn't - this is a result of my noobyness doing this - but now there is! i've put up 4 chapters for you to evaluate - no email needed. https://www.learninpublic.org/#learn-more
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Coding isn't the hard part of your job, it's convincing people that outsourcing isn't going to result in good outcomes. The reason why they won't result in good outcomes: * maintenance is hard * writing quality code is hard * CI/CD is hard * requirements gathering is hard etc.
Sometimes coding is hard in and of itself.
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This looks like a great resource, swyx. I'm considering buying but would strongly prefer to read a physical book. Do you plan to publish a print version?
thanks! I have no immediate plans but am open to the idea - if only for the fact that itd be freaking cool to give out my own book - any idea what the best way to do a small print run of books would be? theres the added complication that i'm stuck here in Singapore due to coronavirus, whereas my target audience is all in the US. so i probably shouldnt do shipping myself.
Please don't take this the wrong way; I am genuinely curious. As far as I can tell, you've been a professional developer for approximately 2 years. What qualifies you to instruct people how to manage their dev career, let alone charge $40+ for the advice?
Because that is what sells now. Write a book for Packt on X you are learning as you go => Leading expert in X and charge 100USD/hour Write a bunch of blog spam on X, a lot of it wrong => Leading expert in X and charge 100USD/hour Create a bunch of projects that have more bugs than Swiss cheese has holes => Leading expert in X and charge 100USD/hour There is a story today here that says GitHub is the Instagram of prog…
Any free version I can audit? Not convinced this is worth the money since you have 2 years of experience, but I am willing to invest some time to prove myself wrong.
hi Anton - there wasn't - but now there is! i've put up 4 chapters for you to evaluate - no email needed. https://www.learninpublic.org/#learn-more
It looks like a lot of friends with prepared comments for this launch in here.
They spend their whole time selling shovels.
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To be honest, the technical problems are the easy thing in most companies since they just need a simple CRUD app and anything you do will be magic to most people regardless. The politics are the difficult part of most work in this industry. Everyone has an agenda (which is not a bad thing) and serving multiple agendas will make your technical problems even worse.
Depends where you work, if it's a dinky ecommerce site with no scalability issues, then coding is not a problem. But if it's a real product company with AI/ML engineering problems, then coding definitely is.
I've worked in just about every industry in my career, yet to find a place where those engineering specialisations are make-or-break, or even necessary.
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Depends where you work, if it's a dinky ecommerce site with no scalability issues, then coding is not a problem. But if it's a real product company with AI/ML engineering problems, then coding definitely is.
> a real product company with AI/ML engineering problems I've worked in just about every industry in my career, yet to find a place where those engineering specialisations are make-or-break, or even necessary.
It looks like a lot of friends with prepared comments for this launch in here.
There's a whole micro-cosm of 'tech-twitter' guru's of which this guy is one of them. They spend their whole time selling shovels.