The Truth Behind Tech AI Layoffs
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Posts tagged with career
Maybe You're Not Sick of Programming
Many programmers believe they are tired of programming, but they may actually be frustrated with bureaucracy, lack of product vision, and lack of ownership. Burnout can skew perspectives, and it may be more beneficial to address these issues rather than abandoning programming entirely.
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Things I wish I knew when I started programming
Brent Roose has written an excellent book. This time on his programming journey and the lessons learned along the way. It's not too long, I personally read it in one sitting, and liked it very much.
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An engineer's perspective on hiring
– jyn.dev
The current hiring process for engineers is flawed, wasting time and failing to differentiate between skilled candidates and those using AI.
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On full-breadth developers
It looks like full-breadth developers—people with both technical and product capabilities—stand to gain as clear winners in the AI era.
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Impostor Syndrome – Maybe I’m Not Good Enough?
– www.moisis.dev - submitted by Moisis Hadjiagathangelou
After more than 9 years working with Laravel—leading a dev team and architecting solutions—I still sometimes feel like I’m not doing enough.
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From Contributor to Maintainer: Lessons from Open Source Software
– dev.to - submitted by Patrick
Lessons learned from contributing to open source software projects.
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Character Development
An important post by Nico.
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Lessons from the last 12 months
An important post by Mohamed Said.
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The End of Front-End Development
Josh Comeau argues that AI won't take away any front end jobs soon.
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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a Programmer
– baspa.dev - submitted by Bas van Dinther
Learn about imposter syndrome, its causes and how to combat it in the field of programming.
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I'm out of a job
A post by Caleb Porzio that resonated with me. I'm pretty sure that every creator feels this way at some point in time.
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The Forty-Year Programmer
A brilliant post by Noah Gibbs with some good insights in what it means to be a developer and the things you should focus on.
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7 Things I Look For When Hiring
In this excellent, humanly written blog post, Laracasts founder Jeffrey Way offers some good tips for applying at any company.
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Dear Future Me: I Am Not Alone
Lisi Hocke on the challenges she faced the past few months during the pandemic. At the end of the post, she gives a few list of recommendations you can try to prevent a burn out.
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The fear of missing out in web development
Mohammed Said wrote some thoughts on FOMO that resonate with me.
It's a constant pressure on me, and I can imagine how hard it can be on people newly joining the career. In my early days it wasn't that bad, things weren't moving that fast, but nowadays it's crazy.
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Why geeks should speak
Justin Jackson wrote a cool post on the benefits of public speaking.
As a geek, there's one skill that's helped me level-up professionally more than anything else: public speaking. Whether it's doing product demos, presenting an idea to my team, or being on a podcast, it's a skill I benefit from every day. But the biggest opportunities have come from giving talks.
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How to Ruin a Career in 10 Easy Minutes
Here's a video of an excellent talk by Chris Hartjens he recently gave at NomadPHP. Don't have time to watch and prefer to read a summary? This blogpost by Michael Heap has got you covered: https://michaelheap.com/how-to-ruin-a-career-in-10-easy-minutes/
What I've learned after giving 100 talks
Zeno Racha wrote down some of his thoughts around public speaking. I've not given as much talks as he has but surely agree with everything in his post.
Having 10 years of experience on something is nice, but don’t wait for it to get started. The best speakers I've seen are not the ones who knows all the in’s and out’s about a certain topic.Here's the secret that nobody will tell you — the only requirement for giving a talk is passion. That’s it. No diploma, no famous project, no masters degree, no nothing. All you need is passion.
https://medium.com/@zenorocha/what-ive-learned-after-giving-100-talks-8f175654e945
Stack Overflow's Developer Survey results
Every year Stack Overflow runs as survey where they asks their users about their favourite tools, languages, etc... A little while ago they published the results of the 2017 edition.
We learn something new every time we run our survey. This year is no exception:
- A common misconception about developers is that they've all been programming since childhood. In fact, we see a wide range of experience levels. Among professional developers, 11.3% got their first coding jobs within a year of first learning how to program. A further 36.9% learned to program between one and four years before beginning their careers as developers. - Only 13.1% of developers are actively looking for a job. But 75.2% of developers are interested in hearing about new job opportunities. - When we asked respondents what they valued most when considering a new job, 53.3% said remote options were a top priority. A majority of developers, 63.9%, reported working remotely at least one day a month, and 11.1% say they’re full-time remote or almost all the time. - A majority of developers said they were underpaid. Developers who work in government and non-profits feel the most underpaid, while those who work in finance feel the most overpaid.