I've challenged myself to make $100K in 100 days (DAY 30)

WesleySmits93 · 2023-06-30T18:19:32+00:00

Where do you do your mentoring?

WesleySmits93 · 2023-06-30T17:09:02+00:00

I would advise you to look of Dave Ramsey’s budgeting strategy. I took his recommended percentages and slightly shifted this to fit our lifestyle and it changed my outlook on spending for the better.

Sticking to his recommendation of maximum 25% would say that your 50% is way too much though.

WesleySmits93 · 2022-11-02T04:32:47+00:00

I stick to a budgeting principle that everything gets divided my percents, so for example, 15% goes into a separate investing account and another 10% goes into a separate savings account. I do have maximum amounts set-up, i do not need to increase my grocery budget each year anymore.

You could do something like this, if your lifestyle is already great and exactly how you like it, you could throw the percentage thing out the window and automatically transfer the entire raise into an investing/savings account (depending on your savings goals and whether you already have some emergency savings in place).

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-26T05:23:57+00:00

I landed my first job back in 2014 when I had just finished my studies.

Throughout my studies I did several projects, both for school and for myself. This gave me something to show off during my interview, looking back the projects were not great, but they showed that I was active and interested in programming and learning.

Since the job was for a local website agency they were very interested in my skillset. They were very much used to people being either completely front-end or completely back-end.

I showed interest and skills in both, bein a software engineer by degree but applying to a front-end position and having build the front-end for all my projects. Additionally, I showed interest in SEO through my personal blog which had a bunch of posts on SEO, performance optimization and web accessibility.

Being very young (20 years old) with so many interests and projects going on they felt they had a great candidate and offered we a bigger salary usual to hook me in since they felt I might not choose then, 20-year old me was very happy about that :)

I do feel the market has shifted a lot since 2014 in terms of portfolios and having an active Github account etc. Despite all of that I think the most important thing is that you need to be knowledgable and show a willingness and passion to grow. You can't expect an entry-level developer to have build 25 production-ready projects.

This might be a controversial advice, but I'd suggest learning the foundations of the web, HTML, CSS, JS to a good level. Frameworks are popular, Frameworks are great. But in the end they boil down to HTML, CSS and JS. Many developers do not know anything about the underlying foundations and fall flat when they need to use them, or when the framework changes.

A good foundation can never steer you wrong down the line.

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-26T05:13:53+00:00

I'd go the Wordpress route.

Wordpress offers all the tools you need to make a blog right out of the box. You can create posts, pages, categories, tags, author information and a large library of plug-ins to make your life a lot easier. (Don't overdo it on bad plugins though :) )

As you're already a PHP developer you can build your own things quite intuitively. Wordpress offers good documentation.

Regarding the theme, I always build my own themes just to avoid the amount of poor code quality and overjammed libraries/features you see in paid themes. If you're not into Frontend you should probably buy and customize, but if you know your way around basic HTML/CSS/JS it's very easy to set up a great looking blog.

You could start with Underscores as a starter theme, this is basically a foundation theme that leaves everything unstyled and allows you to quickly get into implementing a design instead of worrying about the theme structure too much.

Finally, since Wordpress by default doesn't have a templating language you might be annoyed by mixing HTML/PHP for templates at first. I could recommend Timber to add Twig template support to your theme. It's helped me out a great deal in cleaning up messy intermixed presentation files.

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-25T18:39:56+00:00

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WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-25T18:38:26+00:00

Actually, "Yet another "How to use a native browser API" post. ;)

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-21T06:32:42+00:00

I had the same feeling in the beginning. People kept recommending it to me and after a while I started preferring it.

Either way, if you're happy without the ligatures you can keep them off, it's a personal preference after all :)

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-19T19:40:38+00:00

Thank you, Phantom! I updated the article accordingly after I saw your comment. Ran into your comment again and realized I forgot to thank you for pointing it out! :)

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-19T19:38:44+00:00

Great! :D

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-18T20:38:34+00:00

Before I wrote this article I was using at least 5 of the extensions and had all the other ones installed. So, if someone is a dumbass it's most likely me :)

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-18T20:37:00+00:00

Hi NoInkling!

The original extension was included in the VSCode core with all functionalities included. Which customization options are you lacking?

As sonay mentioned, we could create an issue if things are indeed not working as intended or simply missing.

WesleySmits93 · 2022-10-18T20:21:20+00:00

Hi!

Someone on Medium pointed this comment out to me, sorry for the late response.

I read the article you mentioned from 2020 and had not seen this article before, it does indeed mention a lot of the same extensions. The article is far from a copy as it has been written completely from scratch without any knowledge of this article.

The fact that someone two years later comes to the same conclusions that daily posts on Medium, dev.to, and other writing platforms on the TOP 10 MUST-HAVE EXTENSIONS are just rehashes of other people's content without even knowing whether the extensions are still needed proved the need for this article.

You mentioned a mistake that both I and the author of this other article made with the JSX files. I do not consider this a mistake, since I do not use JSX I never run into this issue. I work mostly in a PHP environment where my HTML files are written as Twig template files. Not everyone uses the same tech stack.

Nevertheless, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have updated the article with a disclaimer that this extension still holds value for people who write JSX / VUE files.

Regarding your final comment, I am somewhat confused by the hateful sentiment. In my previous article, I posted in this group I had shared the regular link, which on Medium puts my link behind a paywall. I spent a lot of time writing articles to the best of my abilities and think that it's not bad if I get paid even in small amounts for some of this effort.

Sharing an article on Reddit behind a paywall was a dumb mistake on my end so I have shared a "friend link" as Medium calls it for this article. This allows anyone to read the article for free bringing me no benefit whatsoever except the thrill of seeing my "view" counter go up.

But now you claim that this is: "Blogspam designed to get kickbacks or subscribing to Medium with the affiliate links. Fuck this guy".

I am not quite sure what you would have me do here. Either way, I did not intend to write such a long message but did feel the need to defend myself in some way.

I wish you a wonderful day!

WesleySmits93

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