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What are the key skills necessary to be a competent developer?

Jeky — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 20:24:13 +0000

Asked myself this question today. Wondered what others thought.

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Obviously we’d have to define competency.

But interpret it as you wish.

It could mean the ability to produce optimised code that meets a set of criteria.

It could mean being able to consistently and reliably produce a solution from start to finish in code, that functions as intended, without bugs.

Whatever you interpret, what do you think are the bare essentials to be competent?

I know it’s difficult without more specificity, but to counter that make it general or be specific by applying it to what you know/your expertise.

What is the minimum, the most fundamental, that applies most broadly?

Here is my favourite music to code to, what's yours?

Jeky — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:25:55 +0000

When I'm working for a period of a few hours consistently I'll go to Spotify and type in:

"Tom Doolie"

Then I'll just start at the first song of his most recent album and let it play through his whole Discography pretty much.

It's perfect for dev work, for me.

It's quite chilled hip hop beats, good variation in sound and style, and experimental in parts.

It's a good balance between being unobtrusive whilst still being interesting, and not just elevator music. It also has some subtle vocals mixed in there, which is a good change up when they come in.

I guess it would be classed as 'Chill Hop'. But it's just good hip hop instrumental beats, essentially.

Would highly recommend it if you've not listened to him before, and it's your sort of thing.

What music do you listen to whilst coding?

Any recommendations in a similar vein to Tom Doolie would be great to hear.

What kind of developer would Einstein have been?

Jeky — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 23:54:36 +0000

For a bit of fun I was thinking what programming language would each of these notable people have learned as their primary language and why:

Albert Einstein
Mary Shelley
Muhammad Ali

Maybe we’ll even learn something about the people or the programming languages in the process.

But don’t take it too seriously.

Let me know what you think in the comments...

(I wanted to say some risqué ones, but decided to play it safe 😂, maybe you could be braver than me with your own ones)

Tried out a new blogging platform called 'bloggi'

Jeky — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:41:19 +0000

This is blog-ception. I'm blogging about a blog that I created that I found through a blog.

I'm part of the Indie Hackers community..

I saw a post on there for a new blogging platform bloggi.co, created by an Indie Hacker called Hernán Sartorio.

I was pretty impressed with it. It takes clean/minimal design to a new level. Super simple and intuitive, it all just works, so far anyway (with my 10 minutes of usage anyway 😂).

To try the blog out, I had the idea of writing serialised short stories on there.

I started off with one called Badger Buckman.

For anyone looking for a non-nonsense blog that's super minimal in design it could be worth a look.