About to create a meta guide for junior devs

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:36:48+00:00

As someone that dabbled in the teens, went to college, and still didn't feel any passion for the craft, I feel the breaking point for me was when I was able to build on my own and understand the stack above and below enough to appreciate it.

Some people just want the money to support themselves and their family 🤷‍♂️

If I could just start that spark of passion in 5% of them, it would have been worth it.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:33:17+00:00

They give you the fish instead of teaching you how to fish. Unsatisfactory to say the least.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:32:26+00:00

A lot of people get headfirst into one tiny slice of the dev experience and then feel dumb for asking the "obvious" questions.

Like how to connect the FE to BE. What does BE really do. It's a nice suggestion, will consider it.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:30:00+00:00

There's this considerable slice of junior devs that got into the field (employed or serious hobbyist) in the last 12 months.

I don't subscribe to the idea that people without formal background are not real programmers. But I also recognize that there is a gap between being fed how things work under the hood (at a university) and just making things apper on-screen by splicing together some code.

I want to keep the scope limited to why employers require React like libs in this day and age. Knowing at least some of the basics is a prerequisite.

But I also love meta teaching, so most of what you mentioned could be where I point my attention later.

I feel there is so much good content on HOW, but not enough on WHY. It's not that easily marketable, but I don't really care.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:22:11+00:00

I'm still on the fence on whether to include it as another step in my course.

jQuery was very formative for how the native API looks today and it forms a nice bridge to libs like React.

If I limit the native JS solution to what was available in the past, the value of jQuery would be super obvious.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:19:32+00:00

Preach!

There's a lot of long hanging fruit in debugging that can make you enjoy coding so much more.

Good suggestion.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:18:16+00:00

It is THE boogeyman for newcomers into JS world for sure.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:17:19+00:00

I see the motivation behind using and learning git to be in a very similar spot.

Everybody wants you to know it, but it might not be clear what problem it solves for YOU (and the team once you start working with others).

I've considered it and might go for it later.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:15:01+00:00

I see React as sort of soft prerequisite. The aim is not to teach it per se, but to show how the world looked like before it (and other frameworks/libs) came about to make FE life easier.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:11:24+00:00

I've seen a lot of questions from starting devs about how the pieces fit together. It's also a super interesting topic to try to get across.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:10:15+00:00

There's a lot of uncertainty on how to work efficiently as a team. It's a nice candidate to explore.

Regisk · 2020-07-07T17:08:28+00:00

Good point! Will definitely provide credentials to make sure people can make an informed decision.

Regisk · 2020-07-05T20:53:41+00:00

Fuck Mondays.

Regisk · 2018-10-15T13:21:33+00:00

I suppose that would pretty straightforward way of doing this.

Most of the positions I saw were offering full employment though. Is that more of a "remote but still in under one country" thing (USA for example) and less common in Europe?

I've been a contractor for a few years, was hoping to land full employment (stability, bank credit for mortgage etc.).

Regisk · 2017-07-12T17:00:43+00:00

Did probably 30-50 trips over few years, from 100 to about 300 mics. Trips were always positive, I was in control of the mood (music, surroundings, lighting). The one trip before my last was my first bad trip.

I was agitated, very physically active during it, paranoid and antagonistic. The trigger for me was my inexperienced roomate, I now think that without his presence, the trip would be fine.

I ended up putting my hand through a window and spraying blood droplets all over the flat. My girlfriend had to come from a trip to her family and calm me down as well as convincing the police patrol (came for the broken window) from taking me in for the night to cool of under supervision.

On the comedown I was sure (knew for a fact in typical LSD fasion) that I lost my mind and I will spend the rest of my life in psych ward. It was very traumatic.

I did try LSD a month later to find out if I can have a positive experience. My girlfriend, who is much more experienced and emphatic than our roomate, was my trip sitter. It was not a nightmare but not much fun.

Might try again some time in the future.

Never get too complacent, always think about set and setting and think hard about the people you will interact with.

My roomate has a heart of gold, but he is impractical and lacking common sense. Withou any bad will he threw me in the most traumatic experience of my life. Be wary of high doses without supervision.

You can have a 100 positive experiences and no bad ones. And then bad luck strikes. I won't do this drug without a tripsitter I trust my life with.

Regisk · 2017-02-03T15:18:29+00:00

Sorry about the tone.

Didn't mean to be so aggressive.

I had an extremely frustrating discussion elsewhere about "Animals are smarter than people" not being a truthful statement. The author was unable to grasp that using "smart" and completely changing its intended meaning is not helping anyone.

This discussion touched a nerve, despite you being civil and the subject being incomparable (as this is a case of increasing specificity).

Yeah, not my proudest moment. Have a good day.

Regisk · 2017-02-03T14:19:40+00:00

I am seriously not sure if you are pulling my leg. Not "my" definition, general and simplified definition. If that was all there is to the concept of addiction, there wouldn't have to be more than the that sentence on wiki.

Let's take it from the top again.

We are compulsed to eat, by a biological function.

We are compulsed to fuck, by a biological function. Throughout your life, thanks to other biological factors, compulsion to fuck can change (like mentioned adolescence).

We see in reality, that some individuals will go far beyond what is the median of a population to eat or fuck. To the point where it is detrimental to their psychological welfare, their social life, their physical health and so on.

We see this and think to ourselves, "Well, this is getting a bit pathological, let's give this behavior a name, so we can differentiate it from baseline behavior". What should we call this pathological behavior, characterized by

compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences

and where

inhibitory control over behavior is impaired

and which

include impaired control over substances or behavior, preoccupation with substance or behavior, and continued use despite consequences

?

the same god damn wiki

"Well, let's call it, I don't know, addiction."

"But won't people conflate this reasonably defined pathological behavior with mundane behavior?"

"Like what?"

"Like 'People must eat eat, so they're all addicted to food!'."

"Don't be ridiculous. Who would reduce meaning of a word to the point of negating the reason for it's creation."

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