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2 months

One of the best things, as software engineers, is to get “into the zone.” Basically code flows off of your fingertips and you get a lot done. What typically breaks that focus?

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I've been building a learning management system for education and I've decided to just go open source with it. It's a Next.js app with tailwind and MongoDb. If you are interested in contributing, give it a star and do a pull request!

GitHub - StudyDrift/study-drift-lms: A modern learning management system to place learning in the...

A modern learning management system to place learning in the hands of the students - StudyDrift/study-drift-lms

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6 months

@adrianbatdev Because it’s like removing unused parts of an airplane wing while flying

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18 days

Who are some of the best people to follow in the software engineering space?

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What’s the hardest concept to learn as a software engineer?

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4 months

What do developers do while their code is building?

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In most cases, a software engineer should choose code readability over cleverness. Is there a time where cleverness should be over code readability?

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5 months

In sales, success is easy to measure, money. In marketing, success is easy to measure, leads. In development, what do you use to measure success?

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2 months

There are engineers who use libraries for literally everything and there’s other engineers who write everything from scratch. Which engineer are you?

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2 months

Git is a pretty solid tool, but coming up with a commit message can be tricky. What do you usually put in your commit messages?

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3 months

What age is the best time to start a business?

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5 months

@unclebobmartin Honestly, this should scare people. This is basically what Putin did to his opponents

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4 months

Are software engineers more likely to stay at a company if they are paid more or if they have a good friend at the company?

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4 months

Some people say that money makes them happy. Does coding make you happy?

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5 months

What’s more difficult, building a new application or maintaining a legacy one?

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6 months

I’ve heard mixed feelings about this, should software engineers be required to pass a certification exam to be an official software engineer?

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2 months

Tech debt can be defined as a code that will need to be refactored or rewritten at a later date. What are some tips to convince your boss that tech debt needs to be addressed?

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23 days

It’s October, what are some of the best hackathons to participate in this year?

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2 months

CI/CD as software engineers is the best to get code to production. There a bunch of pipeline providers out there, Jenkins, GitHub actions, etc. Which CI/CD provider is your favorite?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

5 months

Have you ever accidentally deleted production data? 😧

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3 months

@mcuban Its going to get harder and harder to distinguish the difference. They are especially targeting those who are susceptible, which sadly is getting closer and closer to common day people.

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5 months

Sadly, I work with a few devs that get unmotivated quickly. What should you do to help an unmotivated developer?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

7 months

@maybe_riya To use AI to figure out plan B?

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4 months

Why does it seem that as companies grow, the rate of innovation slows or stops?

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14 days

Do you find it more enjoyable to code at a startup or in a corporation?

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5 months

Do you find daily standups useful?

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2 months

I am going to be teaching a course to new software engineers, if you could teach the course, what would you teach first?

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4 months

When designing software, there is risk of over engineering if you focus only on the long term. If you focus only on the short term, you risk loads of tech debt. What is the right balance between long term and short term solutioning?

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1 month

@anthonywaldz @Pirat_Nation @Ubisoft Honestly, there needs to be a good strong lawsuit to scare companies away from this behavior

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4 months

At what point in your startup should to look for investors and funding?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

4 months

Hey all, I'm starting a new community geared to help mentor anyone who wants to get into software development. This is a group for the newbies. Please check it out or pass it along!

Get Into Coding

Many people world wide are interested in development, but doesn't know where to start. If you are an aspiring software developer or mentor, let’s all learn!

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

5 months

Throughout my career, leaders have deprioritized or cancelled projects we spent months on. Has this ever happened to you?

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4 months

Which is better, being customer focused or employee focused?

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5 months

I heard an interesting theory today, the more frequently a developer deploys changes in an app, the more unstable it is. When they don’t deploy for a period of time, it’s more stable. What do you think?

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4 months

What kind of cofounder should you look for as a founder?

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4 months

Do you build the front end first and mock the backend or do you build the backend first and then build the front?

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3 months

I’m going to be teaching a class to new developers in a few weeks, should I teach Python or JavaScript?

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2 months

There are some fast engineers, slow engineers, high quality and low quality engineers. Should software engineers be paid by the hour, salary, or based on delivery?

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@ChaseWillden

5 months

What’s the first smart phone you owned? Mine was an iPhone 4s

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3 months

Unit tests help increase confidence and quality in code. What are some good strategies when you work in a project with zero tests?

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9 days

Here’s some tips I recommend when learning a new technology: - Use the technology in a real way. Build an app, solve a problem - As blockers come up, use everything to solve those. (LLM, Google, etc.) - Find example code and follow their practices What else works for you?

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5 months

@HumansNoContext At that point, you wonder if this is just an automated message haha

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@ChaseWillden

4 months

What’s the best strategy for market research to validate your startup idea?

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@ChaseWillden

7 months

@Hamdi33727935 C-pound sounds funny haha

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1 month

The real magic in software isn't just in the coding, it's in understanding when not to code. Over-engineering is the silent killer of app performance. What are the best indicators that an app is over-engineered?

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5 months

@Locati0ns Honestly, 5g turned out to be less than what it was hyped to be.

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Chase Willden

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14 days

What’s the main reason why startups fail?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

2 months

There are books, documentation, blogs, examples, videos, tutorials, tutors, and AI to help you learn a new technology. Each person is different. What's the best way you learn a new tech?

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4 months

Should I build the mobile app first or the web app first?

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@ChaseWillden

4 months

Have you ever accidentally pushed to your remote master/main branch?

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3 months

One of the most annoying phrases for a non-developer is “we’ll add it to the backlog” Basically it means they’ll never get to it. How do you avoid this?

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3 months

@unclebobmartin It honestly is a little concerning how easily people are willing to give up freedom for promises with no backing.

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4 months

@TheCleanCarClub I’m pretty sure half of everyone just makes it up haha

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6 months

When you are getting into software engineering, side projects can be crucial to getting a job, what side projects do you have?

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Chase Willden

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5 months

How many meetings do you, a software engineer, have each day?

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4 months

What should you do as an engineer if you found out that the software you’re working on will eliminate jobs within your company?

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3 months

I saw a stat that software engineers change jobs every 2-3 years. Is this true?

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3 months

@chfsrh Haha they don’t believe in remote work? Or remote calls 😂

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4 months

Microservices can be as large as a domain, like user management. Or it can be as small as user creation. What’s the right size for a microservice?

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@ChaseWillden

5 months

A developer on my team told another engineer to use better pull request etiquette. What kind of pull request etiquette is there?

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2 months

So now that I’m teaching software courses, AI is a huge topic. How do you think that AI should be used in programming courses?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

3 months

This is legitimately hard to figure out, what's the ideal language/framework for a web server?

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@ChaseWillden

1 month

Software engineers have many paths. One thing my boss asked me was, “what do you want to be known for?” It’s a hard question. What do you want to be known for?

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It’s easy to work at a company and feel stale, because of legacy tech, etc... I’d argue that this is your problem, not your company’s. What do you do to prevent yourself from becoming stale?

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3 months

JavaScript is a pretty flexible language, which is probably why people have tried to build literally everything with JavaScript. Can you name one thing not built with JavaScript yet?

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2 months

In my opinion, it's easy to tell the difference between code written by experienced engineers verses an inexperienced dev. For example, isolation of business logic vs business logic sprawl. In your opinion, what is the main difference?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

4 months

When preparing for a software development job interview, you’ll most likely be asked to complete a coding problem. Here’s a few sites that I recommend to use to practice questions, or to gauge where you are at: - - -

Dashboard | HackerRank

Join over 23 million developers in solving code challenges on HackerRank, one of the best ways to prepare for programming interviews.

www.hackerrank.com

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6 months

The further I get into my career, the more I realize that the more knowledge of your business you have and the more technical knowledge you have, it creates this overlap, where you can apply the technology to any business problem. The bigger the overlap, the more useful you are

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19 days

Let’s say you have 1 hour to have uninterrupted coding time. What do you work on first?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

3 months

In my opinion, one of the most important skill to transition out of being a junior dev is having the ability to solve problems. Not just simple code problems but complex problems. What problems have been the best experience for you to solve?

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5 months

How does your company view software engineers?

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@ChaseWillden

3 months

So I’m building a web app right now and I’m trying to decide if I should have the main nav be a sidebar or not, what do you think?

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@ChaseWillden

3 months

In the app I’m building, I’m trying by to decide between svg or font icons. Which one should I choose?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

7 months

@Dominus_Kelvin Depends how you’re app is implemented

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

6 months

Firecrawl is an SDK built by @mendableai , which crawls and converts any website into an LLM ready markdown. If you are building LLM tools that require any sort of web scraping, this is the SDK for you.

GitHub - mendableai/firecrawl: 🔥 Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data....

🔥 Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API. - mendableai/firecrawl

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

5 months

Most underrated feature is IOS is standby mode

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2 months

If your business actually uses AI outside of just a chatbot, should you market that? Or since everyone is marketing that, is it worth marketing?

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5 months

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been helping to mentor a few people who want to get into development. What tips do you have when mentoring a new software engineer?

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4 months

I’ve had a number of people reach out to me for recommended resources to follow to stay up to date. Here’s what I personally use: - - this is great because it shows what the open source community is working on and typically what I’ve seen is it follows the

GitHub

GitHub is where people build software. More than 100 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

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4 months

@GeneralMCNews There’s already way too much processed food out there

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@ChaseWillden

4 months

Hey all, On Thursday, July 12, is a spaces-only career fair, where we'll give a select number of companies a short window to pitch their company and connect software developers with potential employers. RSVP to join and we'll see you there!

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@ChaseWillden

4 months

I’ve heard that full stack developers basically means they don’t specialize in anything. What’s your opinion?

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@ChaseWillden

6 months

@Kunalkurle7 I don’t cry with movies, but the boy in striped pajamas got me

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4 months

Is it more fun to architect solutions or to do the coding of the solutions?

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7 months

@Whotfismick Dang, that has to be expensive, but that looks delicious

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@ChaseWillden

4 months

I know 1 word to annoy any software engineer: segfault 😂

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5 months

Should git repository names have capital letters in it?

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4 months

There’s many ways to get funded as a startup, is crowdfunding a good option?

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4 months

I struggle with this every time I start a new project, what are the best indicators you should use a NoSQL vs a SQL database?

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

4 months

Came across this tool called @refine_dev , this looks like a solid option for those who need to get enterprise apps up fast, without the unextensability of a drag and drop only interface. Check it out!

Refine | Open-source Retool for Enterprise

Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.

refine.dev

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@ChaseWillden

7 months

@ImLunaHey The piece that nobody wants 😂

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@ChaseWillden

5 months

Interview tip: don’t talk too long. I asked a few questions and the candidate talked for 10 minutes and never answered the question.

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5 months

@GeniusGTX Now that is very clever

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@ChaseWillden

7 months

@wtravishubbard It’s just frightened leaders. I’m sure newspaper companies had similar policies with the internet before they got disrupted haha

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

5 months

Pro tip, when you are processing large amounts of data, create iterative checkpoints where you save the data to a file. This will protect you if your internet dies or your computer glitches.

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

2 months

I have a bud who has been looking for a job for the past 6 months, he's not willing to change these: - He only wants remote work - He does not work any government contract work - He only wants Php or Ruby on Rails work Simply changing his requirements, he could get a job.

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

5 months

To Vim or not to Vim, that is the question. Personally I use Vim

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Chase Willden

@ChaseWillden

4 months

Here's the 3 main git commands you'll need to know. 1. git add . (adds every file from the current directory recursively) 2. git commit -m 'message' (preps the files you added with a message) 3. git push (pushes the committed code to the remote server)

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Chase Willden

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2 months

Taking breaks throughout the day and give you higher productivity for the rest of the day. With that being said, do you work through lunch?

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@ChaseWillden

7 months

@Andreyscott247 Don’t get over offended if people comment on your code.

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