Based on the Twitter meme from a few years back (kind of hard to search for but I'll add an example as soon as I find one), I'd like to hear the ways that you're not quite as smart/knowledgable as a junior dev might expect.
For me all of HTML is still a foreign language and I regularly google the most basic elements!
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As senior developer, knowing the right keywords to search on google is also very important. All the experience doesn't help me to remember the right syntax, but it helps to connecting the dots and do the right research and provide the optimal solution.
I legit was troubleshooting for 40 minutes because I forgot the
<img>tag attribute issrcnothref. Haha.. oh well.lol it was this exact thing that made me realize I couldn't write it from memory
I still have to google HTML tables since I don't regularly use them and if I do it's because I'm looking at someone else's code. Also, RegExp. 😉
I think you mentioned this case
theoutline.com/post/1166/programme...
When homebrew author didn't get a job @ Google because he couldn't solve a cs problem. And then some confessions followed.
I'm a senior software engineer myself and I Google how stuff works almost daily.
I just found out that table elements by default don't have borders
I always forget the markdown formula for images.
You could create a snippet for that.
A huge part of being a good developer is simply being an excellent problem solver. Being able to google good is solving a problem. I see no problem! 😃
I was actually having a conversation about this the other day with a friend.
I search for the same things as much as I did when I first started out as a dev. The only difference is Im getting better at the underlying understanding of what each of these pieces of code do. I just don't have the brain capacity to memorize every detail of how each of these puzzle pieces look but I know the general functionality of each one a lot better.
How to remove a substring from a string in Python. Last Friday I looked it up three times. In the span of less than an hour.
Created an account just to say "Thank You" I really needed to see you this post. I've been in web development since I graduated college in 2011 and made my way up to Lead Web Developer but always had sort of an imposter syndrome because I'd often look up some tags that in my head I'd feel like I should have just known. So yeah, thanks again.
So true
wow this comment made my day. Thanks Christopher!
Reading all these comments make me feel much better, I feel I'm always Googling for the simplest things - many of them mentioned already!
I think it is a great point that you have made here. I follow #100daysofcode on my instagram feed and I see so many photos of people learning / starting out who have taken massive amounts of notes about the sorts of things people have mentioned in the comments below, I understand you need some sort of a background but I think they are focusing their energies on trying to memorise things than learning to be a dev
Yeah this article struck such a chord I’m going to write “what to memorize, what to write down, and what you can just google”
Well, because you are senior, your brain is occupied with things a little less trivial than html img tag syntax that you can find in 2 sec.
I would say its perfectly normal and desirable state of things.
There is a quote attributed to Albert E.:
I strongly believe in it in my field of work.
Remembering everything is domain of the robots, not humans, who train to be better at searching for things/solutions using abstract thinking.
Im on regex101.com every time i have to write any regexp. ;)
PS. Emmet is a pretty nice tool to minimize duckduckgo.com trips on a daily basis. Or snippets in general.
img<tab>=><img src="" alt="">That's the exact quote that came into my head when I read the post. Great minds think alike :)
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