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A short while ago I've tweeted a following question:
Whatโs the best tweet sized lesson youโve learned in your programming career?23:12 PM - 05 Jan 2020
Whatโs the best tweet sized lesson youโve learned in your programming career?
Quite a few of developers from various background decided to share their lessons learned in the Twitter thread and I'd like to share some of them with the dev.to community
1) "Experience comes with time and practice" - Ania
Ania Wsz@aniawsz
@tlakomy Experience comes with time and practice and canโt be substituted with memorized concepts and syntax. So relax, learn how to use the docs and search for information, read other peopleโs code. Enjoy the ride, youโre doing great ๐09:35 AM - 06 Jan 2020
2) "There is no magic happening in the programming world" - Xiaoru Li
@tlakomy There is no magic happening in the programming world
I've come across many tools, libs, concepts that I felt so advanced that they were like magic to me. I therefore fear and procrastinate learning how they actually work
Turns out if I put in effort, any "magic" can be mastered00:19 AM - 06 Jan 2020
3) "When things go wrong, blame the process, not people." - Sophie
4) "Manually verify things youโre very sure to be true" - Jamon
@tlakomy When youโre struggling with a particularly stubborn bug, always manually verify things youโre very sure to be true. It often turns out to not be what you expect.
twitter.com/jamonholmgren/โฆ07:47 AM - 06 Jan 2020Jamon Holmgren @jamonholmgrenWhen I pair with one of my devs to help them with a stubborn failing test, the first thing I do is change the test to `expect(true).toBe(true)`. If the test then passes, then we're working in the right file. That's step one. ๐
5) "Software is not the goal, it is the by-product" (I absolutely love this one by the way) - Adri
๐ธ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฝ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ@afontq@tlakomy Software is not the goal, it is the by-product. This is not about writing software, this is about providing value.23:38 PM - 05 Jan 2020
6) How do I set a breakpoint with JavaScript - Tobi
@tlakomy The fact that you can set a breakpoint with the `debugger` keyword in JavaScript.23:38 PM - 05 Jan 2020
7) "Make your worst-case estimation for the time you need to solve the problem, double it, and you'll have a realistic timeline." - Olena
@tlakomy Make your worst-case estimation for the time you need to solve the problem, double it, and you'll have a realistic timeline.12:57 PM - 06 Jan 2020
8) "Always back up your database. Always verify that your backups work." - Harper
Harper Maddox ๐งข@harpermaddox@tlakomy Always back up your database. Always verify that your backups work.23:39 PM - 05 Jan 2020
9) "โWhen you became master in one thing, itโs time to become a student in anotherโ" - Marc
๐ผ๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐ โก๏ธ@_marcba@tlakomy โWhen you became master in one thing, itโs time to become a student in anotherโ
(Part of a speech given at my masterโs graduation ceremony)05:16 AM - 06 Jan 2020
10) "Solve problems. Learn in public. Be a +10% engineer." - Piotr
@tlakomy Stop caring about best practices and cool patterns. Strive for deeper understanding. Notice trade-offs. Get accustomed with trade-offs in your field. Bring value. Solve problems. Read other pplโs code (other teams in yr co and OSS). Learn in public. Be a +10% engineer.09:02 AM - 06 Jan 2020
If you're on Twitter, I highly recommend you follow all of those amazing people.
By the way, what are your lessons learned in your career?
