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One thing Amazon know about me is that I’ll return a thing QUICK ↩️

Remember how masterful we all became at texting a billion words per minute on these?? 😂 Yeah, I don’t want to hear about what tech you can’t learn to use. https://t.co/bstaX9Y5zf

I constantly have to remind myself that no successful product/service started out perfect and none are perfect now. Lean toward releasing fast, failing fast, and fixing fast.

RT @geetfun: @KGcodes Great approach. I sort of do the same as well. Pretty much the only time I learn something is if I want to build something new with it. Then I learn so I could build.

Example problems: — Get a React dev job: you learn JavaScript + React deeply, but only learn enough about server-side tech to integrate for data. — build a Laravel Web API: you learn PHP + Laravel deeply, but only learn enough about the server OSes to deploy the API on them.⠀

⁣As a dev, how do you balance the range of tech you learn, versus the depth at which you learn? My approach: Only learn things as deeply as needed to solve problems. Over time you’ll gain breadth in your skillset, which help decide when the ROI is worth learning things deeply.

Once I got a pull request with 7 beautiful lines of code to implement a feature request. It also had 231 other lines of code to integrate an auto-documentation engine. Both are great but DECOUPLE THE CHANGES. Now a problem with either forces both to be rolled back.

It’s amazing how much you can learn about a programming language just from a single, real, well-design project.

RT @DevWig: @KGcodes This is something I’ve been using AI a lot for recently. I try to make myself as replaceable as possible, which starts with docs, but I feel like my writing is meh. So I get GPT to write a first draft then I proofread to correct errors and boom, docs finished!

Developers greatly appreciate when there is great documentation but don’t appreciate ever having to write it 😅

Raise your hand if you use regex (regular expressions) a lot in your code? 🙋🏾‍♂️ Raise your hand if you know how to write regex? 🙇🏾‍♂️

Perfect solution for a code bug came from chatGPT in 5 minutes today. Crazy times.

OMG https://t.co/WEQQSviFiA

When I merge my own pull request, deploy to production myself with no approval, and everything works perfectly 🏅 https://t.co/q8rS8SCDMT

As a software developer, the best part for me is having built apps/websites/services that people have shown appreciation for, and that has bettered their lives in some form. https://t.co/ml15K4WlL8

When I’m inspired or think of any idea, I stop what I’m doing and “write” it down in my notes app. When you go to review them, you’ll be amazed at how many great ideas that you simply forgot, and you’ll be inspired all over again.

Does your software development team use/view a burndown chart during work sprints? If so, how are you using what it’s showing you? https://t.co/mNgWqZnfa5