End and a new beginning

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Hi friends! I am a long-time advocate and silent reader of dev.to. I appreciate all the authors who posted their goodies in this industry here.

To start, this is my first time posting and sharing my thoughts as part of a new beginning.

Let me introduce myself, I’m Ben. I’ve been a fullstack developer for over 9 years. I’m also one of those who gets attracted to new shiny objects in terms of techs and frameworks (JS especially)

Just recently, I got laid off at one of the most company I liked working, with a great working environment. Emotionally, I was devastated. Not because I don’t have work anymore. But, the colleagues that I will be leaving.

So, after that, I did have lots of time to ponder and think about what to do next. Should I take days, weeks, or months off? Or should I act and continue going?

Then, it got me thinking. “I think it’s time for me to give back what I learned and provide my insights or thought process on real problems and scenarios and how I came up with a solution", this might help others that have a similar problem. I am also updating my CV and portfolios 😅.

With this first post, I am moving forward. I will be posting random real problems I experienced and how I dealt with them, how to grow and improve as a developer, how to overcome Impostor Syndrome, and the tools I use to keep me productive.

I think that’s all for this post and I will be posting more in the coming days.

By the way, here are the tools that I use for my workspace:

Neovim (with LunarVim)
Trello (For personal task management, and Jira for work)
Alacritty - as my terminal
TMUX - if you are a developer that spends so much time in terminal, you gotta try this, it’s amazing! 🔥🔥🔥
exa - an alternative to ls
Laravel Herd - I discovered this lately
docker - you know what this is
lazygit - a TUI for git
lazydocker - a TUI for docker
Oh-my-zsh - as my terminal shell
MacOS - well, why not? 😅
Figma - for UI and web design purposes
TablePlus - for DB-client management.

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