Learn web3.js and build dapps. You already have most of the requisite skills under your belt.
I haven't encountered any dapps yet that are useful in day-to-day life.
Are there any popular or important ones you could recommend?
Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
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Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#72I read this book. https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications... And it was really enlightening. I would heavily recommend it. It starts off by teaching different types of implementations of different parts of DBMS. Then goes on to teaching about how distributed systems deal with various problems.
It's actually recommended in the teach yourself cs curriculum, so I'll get around to reading it !
Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#73How is your knowledge of regular expressions? Spending a few days to learn them well² is really worth it. -- ² it's also worthwhile to know how they are working under the hood if you want to write high-performance regular expressions
I love them and went through https://regexcrossword.com/ for fun, they're great tools.
I have no idea how they work under the hood though !
Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#74I read this book. https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications... And it was really enlightening. I would heavily recommend it. It starts off by teaching different types of implementations of different parts of DBMS. Then goes on to teaching about how distributed systems deal with various problems.
i'm a mobile application developer aspiring to learn backend. will this be a good read for me if i have negligible experience on server side of things?
Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#75What are your goals in life?
Job-wise I'd love to find something more technical and less business/project oriented. I find myself not really caring about the end product but I love focusing on how things work.
I've often been the only one enjoying debugging since it's more of a brain teaser than a business/product focus. Also the build/deploy part of dev interests me a lot.
Also gotta get to a scratch golf handicap, but that's outside scope.
Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#76I think containers, orchestration, nomad. Apps in the cloud decouple storage, security. The real “app” is an ephemeral container
Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#77How is your knowledge of regular expressions? Spending a few days to learn them well² is really worth it. -- ² it's also worthwhile to know how they are working under the hood if you want to write high-performance regular expressions
I love them and went through https://regexcrossword.com/ for fun, they're great tools. I have no idea how they work under the hood though !
Knowing how they work under the hood will help you to write better expressions that perform well and don't waste performance.
Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
This and the servers/linux stuff is the most interesting part of my job. I do have my doubts about being able to get into it since I suppose you really have to master low level dev (which I don't) and I don't think I can get a job as self-taught in this field.
If you like devops and security, have a look at SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) positions. Companies look for software engineers to fill these positions. And you'll work on security related stuff. Not necessarily pen-testing per se, but network security, operational security, etc. Also, teams with SRE expertise most likely use modern tech because SRE itself is a rather new way of managing infrastructure. So you'll…
Nice, thought you needed sysadmin background for SRE. I'll look into that, thanks.
Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#79algorithms and data structures, prepare for interviews at larger companies that follow more traditional CS interview practices.
Re: Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
#80SICP is a great thing to pursue. Pick an area of interest outside webdev and pursue it. Try learning about systems or low-level programming. The field is vast.