Some pretty big changes! A new dev job coming up in London, which is a big move for me having grown up and come from smaller cities before.

As if that's not challenging enough... I will also be working with Rust in my new job, and I don't know an awful lot about it just yet 🙈

And all of that has inspired me to write this up (shameless plug upcoming 😂):

Five advice for a developer settling into a new team

Darren Vong ・ Dec 23 ・ 7 min read

#career #beginners

Trying to work more efficiently/effectively! Produce more (or more relevant) work while putting in the same (or less) time and effort. Focus on what's really important and relevant (things that make me a buck, feel more rewarding, etc). Waste less time so that there's more time left for things outside work.

First, I need to let myself heal. College is over and I finally feel like I’m working in a safe and supportive environment. I want to learn and give so much there, but I can’t do that to the extent I want until I heal from the past.

Then, 2020 is going to be a year of loving myself so I can give to back to the community as it gave to me this year. ❤️

I have high hopes of visiting a tech conference in the US!

Going on a "sandwich diet" until I lose 40lbs.
As long as it's in sandwich form, I can eat it.

I'm always so tired after work, I have a really hard time keeping up with side projects! I'd really like to hammer in some time each week and keep up with it.

Remind me to stop working retail marketing sometime soon.

Make my app succeed, I will start now with shameless advertising.

Just trying to improve more with Blender, drawing, and programming. I'd like to spend more time on larger projects to show myself what I've learned so far. With a full-time job, it can be extremely hard to keep up the momentum after 8 hours at the computer. Working at home helps.

I'll be working on my habit building. Right now I have a lot of bad habits that need to be got rid of, irregular bedtime routine being the most serious one. Also need to build up good habits, fitness training, writing regularly, meditation, etc.

I want to increase my problem solving and analytical abilities as I begin my journey as a Full Time Software Developer for a Fortune 500 company at the end of the month! I also want to finish my personal website using React and hopefully begin working on small projects to keep learning and retaining information! I will be reading more books and trying to structure a balanced life style which enables me to spend time with my Fiance, friends, and even have some down time to play some video games without eating a lot of my productivity time.

Basically changing my entire routine & being more accountable

TL;DR

Wake up earlier. Exercise more. Read more. Build a company.

Routine

Waking up at 04:30. Making the bed
45 minute jog & exercise
05:30 - 5.45 : shower
Reading from 05:45 to 06:30
Breakfast, brush teeth 6:30 - 7:00

07:00 - 07:15 read emails (I don't get many as of now so this shouldn't take much time)
07:30 - 08:30 Customer acquisition plan/Advertising planning (for a book I'm winding up on - applies to January) and learning
08:45 - 09:15 - Slack, hopefully joining a new remote team as a SWE mid-Jan. Daily call for update
(15 min break)
09:30 - 15:30 - Work, with 15 minute breaks in between. Will also have a lunch/snack

15:45 - 19:00 - Recording videos & working on my ventures (hands on)
The hope is to be able to delegate most of the stuff

This is getting a bit lengthy but I'm still working on the routine. Would love any thoughts and pointers too

Probably gonna update this with more changes. Just ran out of time to finish

The trouble with NYRs is the strong temptation to give up after the first failure, so I suppose this paraphrase of Jonathan Edwards' Resolution 56 of 70 should be at the top of the list.

After that I need to get more consistent with a number of things:

• Early to bed.
• Tidyness.
• Less clutter (related to but not totally overlapping with tidyness.)
• Better self-management (I recenty discovered ADHDDD. Helpful stuff!)

I could keep adding to that list. I'm getting better at self-examination. Might have avoided some seriously bad times if I'd done more of it my teens, twenties, thirties ... um forties, early fifties ...

Aiming to be recognized by a project I'm working on. Hell, I'm going to give it my all.

I want to build something people pay for...

I am struggling with identify the right idea that I can get to market easily. I know I just want to bootstrap it. And that I have two young kids and a wife.

Anyone have suggestions? Must be web based, it’s what I know well.

I'm a pretty good dev, one of the best at what I do. But over the years I've always kept what I know to myself, I feel it has kind of had a negative impact. I also suffered a burnout towards the end of last 2019 and kind of felt like i stagnated a bit, so here are the changes I will be making:

1) I'm hosting a meetup in the first quarter of 2020 for intermediate to senior backend devs in Lagos Nigeria. I hope to use it as a platform to help grow the backend community and also to help me share what I know and learn as well. (Backend speakers required)

2) Also will be hosting a backend conference sometime between 2nd and 3rd quater for same purposes. (Speakers also needed)

3) Write a whole lot more and speak at more conferences other than what I organize (So watch out for a horde of articles dev.to)

4) Developer advocacy is something I have become really interested in of late. I will be actively seeking a position as an advocate

5) Intend to pick up at least one open-source project to actively contribute to

6) Picked a book called essentialism, intend to learn how to use the power of less

7) Lastly, picking up a new language (Golang) and will be putting a lot of what I learnt from ML this year to good use

I expect it to be a busy year and most of my activities will be organized towards improving the backend community in my country, continent and at large and also coming out of my shell.

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If you're in Java 8+.

I've got a very positive and hopeful outlook for 2020. I've been using 2019 as a way to create better habits. Now I'd like to use the new year to not only continue building on these habits I've started doing. For example, I'm planning on building more projects next year and applying languages/frameworks I've been learning or don't feel 100% confident with. I'd also like to do more algorithms and any type of coding practice that will help me prepare for coding tests I might encounter on the job search.

I decided to work on a new side project of my own. It doesn't matter, whether it's a completely new idea or just an existing app idea with some critical features and enhancements. Because wait for the right idea it took me two years, doing nothing.

I don't want to code forever. So in 2020, I aim to publish, coach, and consult more.

Sharing what I've learned with others has been my most effective career hack. Writing and sharing have led to clients, speaking engagements, and conversations with interesting people. But the best benefits are internal, not external. Publishing allows me to do more communication & critical thinking reps and strengthen those muscles. It shows when I'm talking with colleagues & bosses. I can tell when I'm working through tough business problems.

From there, I'd like to find ways to apply that kind of problem-solving in higher-leveraged ways. To move from the laborer to the expert. Away from "the person that does the work" to "the person who knows how to do the work." Less "doing things" and more "making things happen."

Coaching and consulting are underrated skills developers can pick up. I suspect many developers don't recognize them as "skills" they can learn and develop. Helping others develop their skills, and persuading them to take action, and uncover their best selves is very rewarding. Maybe if I publish enough decent ideas, I can convince a few others to let me help them.

For my new years resolution i've decided to invest more time into practising what i have learned, and into learning new things. I have a job that is waiting for me after my graduation for wich I want to study more (it is a totaly new programming language and fraimework for me)...soo wish me luck and I wish luck to all of you people struggling to make it in this industry, and also the people who are pros but as always still learning 😊❤

I'd like to start freelancing. I'm an office worker now and I'm a bit tired of 9 to 5 work. I realize that freelance is challenging and it requires more discipline, but I want to give it a try in 2020. And, of course, use this time for more traveling. Wanna see Portugal ;)

Finishing college is a pretty big change coming up. On top of that I'm really excited about some dev opportunities coming up and I would love to continue being an active contributor to the dev.to community.

Sleep like normal humans do

I'm planning to dive directly into the cold water of open-source. And because I'm aware that things might not go as planned in the upcoming year, I decided to start my journey into the unknown right now. For the past days I've been only doing research and trying to find out how to best kickstart my first open source project.

I will graduate from my college this May so want to choose a right place to start job.

Also, plans to build a game before I graduate from college.

And I will try to stay as possitive and healthy as I can and not force myself to code when I dont want to.

Try and interact more with the community, start writing posts and commenting. Maybe also start trying to contribute to some open-source repositories and build my skills in various languages. I've just turned 26 and only one year into my IT career thanks to taking 2 years off as an English Teacher. Feel like I've already fallen behind and have a lot of catching up to.

Get back into public speaking by looking for a local Toastmasters club and submitting talks to several conferences.

Drop another 20 pounds in weight by committing to 3-4 days a week of kickboxing and some specific diet improvements. I'm already down 10 pounds since August.

Get a few web dev projects under my belt. My first project is already underway. It's nothing fancy yet, but I found a free "quotes" dataset and I have basic CRUD working in Rails, so now I'm going to start working on making it shiny and then getting it hosted somewhere. I'll take any suggestions for a "quotes"-like website domain :P

Learn how to sell myself better. I have a small reading list and a couple mentors that are coaching me.

Planning a vacation rather than waiting for burnout :)

It's a lot, but I'm highly motivated and I'm making specific plans on how to achieve them.

The coincidence, I wrote a post on this inspired by @pachicodes .
Basically, I want to write more, attend more conferences, learn new frameworks and languages, work on Blockchain, Data Science and Quantum Computing.

I am also transferring from Medium to Dev.To Man. You know being from India I can't get paid to write? But they keep bugging me to pay!

There are 2 big changes for me. 1st is joining HCL Technologies as Technical Lead next month and started Youtube Channel is another achievement i consider for myself through which i'm able to learn more and more. :)

I'm going to start my second 12-week year on Monday. My goals for the 12-week year are finding work, finding friends and transforming my relationship with money by implementing steps of Your Money or Your Life book.

1. Be patient
2. Learn to shut the f. up and listen for once.
3. Learn not argue but rather not care or risk bad ideas just to make sure you're right
4. Learn how to express yourself better including facial expressions

I have poor genetics, I'm short, have an angry look when I'm confused or asking questions, and worst, I'm always impatient and angry (I guess father side :D ). Therefor, I then to talk to much and argue, although it will make no difference. Even though I usually pick mi fights, only if I'm quite sure I'm right, it's still better to let the people see they made a mistake, otherwise they only rush to prove you wrong, and then kind of avoid you as it makes you they guy that makes people look bad, which is opposite of what I want. Not sure is it me or do people usually like to look down on people who tend to point out mistakes commonly accepted as truth in groups? Anyways if you're alone on one side, it's healthier to correct them once or twice, and after just propose different things as opinions if necessary as you will look like an a*h* if you don't.

I'm not sure I need to make changes. I think if anything, I need to aim a bit higher. I'm clicking very nicely right now and that won't always be true. Time to take that momentum and challenge the tall hills of publication and becoming a Microsoft MVP.

1) Narrowing my focus in terms of learning/practicing: I recognized this year that my focus has been spread too this on learning all kinds of stuff, so I'm narrowing it down to React/Gatsby/Apollo ONLY (ok, maybe a bit of Rails as well), with a heavy focus on mastering Gatsby and demonstrating all sorts of use cases. I'm looking forward to building some projects that show off the power of the content mesh, headless CMSs, and PWA functionality in Gatsby.

2) I was able to get in the habit of programming every day, so now I'm adding the habit of exercising every day. I had a hand injury this summer from an auto-immune condition paired with overuse, and that restriction was really frustrating and made me appreciate being at 100%. I've been doing 8 Minute Abs almost every day (SO CLOSE to acing this routine), and I'm tacking on some other things. The key seems to be making small, easy changes and building onto them.

I will be graduating next year 🎉 🎉
So will actively start applying to jobs & internships.
Plus would involve more in OSS 💪

The goal is to study a lot about technology🚀.
Target: Cloud Computing, Algorithms
Also, want to get some remote internship or job 🤷🏽‍♂️

Going through a very big role change.

Previously focused on emerging technology (for the company) and marketing technology (as my main internal client). Often joked I was the Director of IT miscellany.

Hired someone to run that aspect in my stead while I take up internal tooling, DevOps/SRE, continuous improvement, internal consulting on API development, when to use microservices, etc. These have all been my side projects, so they're switching to being my main focus.

I'll still have some miscellany (Apache SOLR belongs to me for instance, and I love it). Definitely a lot less web dev focused as far as my coding will go, and I'm happy with that. Will eventually expand my team, but for now it will be me and one other from my previous group.

Pretty darn excited.

I am learning to keep focus on the business value and not in the latest tech to learn. I am learning how to say no amd just learn what is needed for the job.

Start a new engineer job which would be my second in the industry.

Landing a job, improve ui/ux design, and learn react 😄

I have a few courses that I've not yet completed. I need to complete them and start learning data structures and algorithms in earnest. Main goal of 2020 is to get a job as a front end developer.

• New timetable.
• Potentially new diet (depending on how my allergies changed).
• Journaling (got a bunch of free notebooks so no excuse for that).

Learn NodeJS and mongoDB

Pretty big changes, I will be starting with my first job as Trainee Software Developer, I plan on creating a portfolio and try working more on open-source 😁

Will try to blog consistently!
Wish me luck :)

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goal = goal?? "Think of one thing.";

I don't know why but I made a Fiddle for this: dotnetfiddle.net/Irx2Q2

I want to learn more about Cloud Native.

1、Get the CKA certificate.
2、Find a Job about k8s or DevOps in China.
3、Buy a house（Yes,It's my wish of 2019,it delay）

Wow,just do it.Following the voice from your heart.

Being SOLID, get a DevOps life in my job... and get a deep knowledge of C#!

Basically - more consistency, more networking / traveling, meeting people...
And finishing my first fullstack project, hopefully graduating with it, and acquiring new skills at the same time :)

I want to slow down, and stop burning from 5 ends of the candle, and start to feel capable again

Biggest change is starting up a dev podcast with my best friend 😁

purrfect.dev

Started new Job no long ago so the goal is to keep improving.
I also want to learn more about FE frameworks and just improve my skills in devops and code reviews

More functional programming because it's fun.

Taking the plunge to becoming a entrepreneur, creating a new ebook, changing my sleeping routines to sleep early and exercising daily with my newly brought 24kg kettlebell.

keeping up and launching a little company of myself.Good luck for me.

I'm going to learn to play the recorder.