Aaron Ware @EarnWhere Twitter profile

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Aaron Ware

11 months

I do not need another keyboard I do not need another keyboard I do not need another keyboard I do not need another keyboard I do not need another keyboard I do not need another keyboard I do not need another keyboard

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Having the title of CEO in a 1-2 person company is hilarious to me.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

I’m always jealous of people that say programming comes easily to them. This shit takes work for me.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

yo build a side project, set up hosting, set up build and deploy pipes, pretend like you have users, optimize it, add features, squash bugs, etc. this is how you grow in your craft, to hell with DSA.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

My 6 year old just asked me if my project was making money. Low blow kid.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

7 months

I think my "honey moon phase" of being a developer is over. 😔 It's not as exciting as it was the first few years. I knew this was coming, have just been dreading it.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Anyone else play Catan?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

I do not mean to be offensive by saying this. I get that your time is money, and your time is valuable. I absolutely get it. But something feels so icky about selling access to yourself to people who aspire to be where you are. Charging people for a 30-minute phone call is

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

@ngelcodes95 Lmfao couldn’t help myself

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

Do you draw your systems? A guy I work with says 'if you can't draw it, you don't understand it.' Ever since I heard that, I draw all my systems in Whimsical before I start coding. It helps me ensure that I actually know what I'm creating before I write a single line of code.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

So close to 200! Let’s connect, I’m here to engage with developers and aspiring developers. Doing my best to help anyway that I can because there is so much strength in community. Also sharing silly stories about being a dad. 🎉

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

I really want to get a CS degree, but I’ve literally never talked to a person more senior than me that thinks it’s a good idea.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately. It’s been a busy week. The short is that I had a meeting today and have signed a pilot with an organization to use GPTutor to teach their curriculum. It will be internal for the first phase and then expand to external, pending the first

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

Last night, I got stoned and spent 4 straight hours solving what was easily the most complex code challenge I’ve encountered on a side project to date. It was absolutely euphoric and so much fun.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Help, I’m really starting to like OOP. Feel like I’m inching closer and closer to Java or C# every day.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

Why nvim over VSCode? I’m truly having a hard time understanding why people like making things harder on themselves? What benefits do you get from it?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Big shoutouts to the gang. It’s been dope interacting with all of you the last few months. I’m grateful for all our interactions. 🤝

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

@DanielWalm60394 @fireship_dev @RealRossU He was the creator of The Silk Road. US Government came after him and over prosecuted him for it.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Oo, this is weird. I've never seen anything like this before. Partial functions are neat but weird.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

@merycodes How much RAM? I have a M1 air with 16GB ram and nothing makes it flinch, it seems. I wonder if the M2s aren’t as solid?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

Is anyone interested in testing out a mentor/mentee vibe? I’d love to find someone grinding and learning JavaScript. Ideally someone who has made it up to React. My thinking is we do weekly or biweekly check ins, where we review code and set goals. I’ll provide actionable

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Desk update. Not shown, my failed attempt at cable management. Featuring ⁦ @DorianDevelops new video⁩ firing me up to continue indie hacking.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

@DThompsonDev Networking. I reconnected with a guy I had met a few years before I started learning to code. Hit him back up, he ended up reviewing my projects and then hiring me.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

I used to think the fact that I “self-taught” was such a badge of honor but now I think it’s a little silly to highlight. I don’t think it matters how you got there. It’s more interesting to talk about what you’re doing, now that you’re there.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

So I spent some time today actually reading through the @htmx_org docs and the shit looks really nice. Is it actually more than a meme? Are there any sweet projects with any level of complexity built with it to show?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

Absolutely crushed my goal of 200 by the end of the weekend. 🤯 Hello to all my new friends 👋🏾. I'm grateful that you all trust me with your time and attention by choosing to have me in your feed. Please let me know how I can be helpful to you. God speed on your journey into,

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

It’s been a great break from work. Thankful to work on a team that shuts down for the week between Christmas and New Years. But boy, am I ready to get back to slanging code with the squad.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Three years ago, when I first started pursuing a career in tech, I had no idea what Kubernetes was. Three years later and I still have no idea what Kubernetes is.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Juniors, one of my favorite things is finding “low hanging fruit” at work. For instance, I have a small task to modify the return type from a module. I get in there and notice that it’s not yet refactored to TS. So I spend 20 minutes and refactor it to TypeScript. It wasn’t

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

To all my vscode users and console loggers, here is a little trick I wrangled together for productivity. I was getting annoyed with typing out console.log all of the time and then not knowing where things logged from in my console. So I added this little snippet and mapped it

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

@kelbels_ I think as it relates to juniors in particular, having more senior people within arms length is so important. You’re going to have trivial and stupid questions. It’s a lot easier to tap a senior on the shoulder and have them look at your screen than it is to send them a link for

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Coding is easy. Positioning, marketing, roadmapping, validating, bookkeeping, product managing, feature prioritizing, user supporting, time managing, selling, pitching, etc etc etc are hard. Focusing on the latter is how you win. Your code quality doesn’t matter.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

When working on a feature that requires client and server work, where do you typically start? Do you build your routes or your UI first? I'm normally route first, just because it's more natural and easy for me.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

How we looking in 2023 so far?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

Feels like the Vision Pro has already fallen off.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Boy, there are some dark corners of this app. I find myself in response rabbit holes that often have me shocked at some of things my fellow human would say to and about others. I’m going to do my best to stick to you tech nerds.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Starting a side project that I'm taking serious has helped me grow so much as a frontend developer. It's a different world when you don't have people working on the same project to ask questions to or design mock ups. Takeaway: Start a side project as soon as you can. 🚀

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

4 years

@kevinjbeson0681 @realDonaldTrump is anyone going to tell him?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

I have a suspicion that anyone who is a "absolutely no comments in code" hardliner, does not write code in systems that have incredibly complex business rules. I spend most of my day writing an API that transacts insurance. There are tons of comments. There almost has to be to

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

When I’m wealthy, I will make a regular occasion of getting wine drunk and anonymously funding GoFundMe campaigns.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

I really caught myself walking to work downtown with a custom keyboard in a custom case yesterday. Teenage me is so disappointed at how much of a dweeb I have become at 30. 😂 🤓

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

Reminder to all my developer friends, make sure you stretch today. And tomorrow. And the day after.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Ive been listening to my “Liked Songs” playlist on shuffle. Every song I’m like “this shit is a banger.” No wonder. 😂

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

Im the idiot that bitches about frontend but is too stubborn to use a UI kit. 🙋🏾‍♂️

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

My 3 year old has totally arrived in the “watch this” phase. Me: “Sick buddy” “wow dude” “awesome bro” 😅.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

7 months

I just had a trip to Colorado with a bunch of buddies from high school and we did the usual reminiscing about old times. I had no idea so many of our peers have died from OD. Truly insane.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

7 months

Look, I love being a developer. But this shit be kind of hard sometimes.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

@cesarrdz29 I don’t. I go really hard until burn myself out, at that point my side projects take a hit and the energy I have left is split between my family and work. I recharge and do the process over. It’s not great.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Any developers care to connect for a coffee chat sometime this weekend? Would love to connect to chat through projects, work, ideas, etc. Also really interested in finding ways to help folks with their job search.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Just had a flashback of the time I dropped our staging database at work. It was like my 4th month on the job as a developer and I felt so stupid. Fortunate that: 1) it wasn’t production 2) I work with a team who coached me through it, instead of ridiculing/punishing me

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

I’m reaching that point where most of my side project work won’t be coding anymore. It will be about validation and selling, which sucks but is necessary.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Is creating a Jira Board for a personal project akin to a gun to a knife fight?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

I learned today that @solid_js powers TV apps like Peacock and HBO Max via a custom renderer hooked into it. Very cool presentation at @RVAJS , just solidified my love for Solid.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

I saw a bald eagle while driving into the office today. Pretty neat.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

@_miloi English and other natural languages. We will program via prompts in the future.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

This was the mindset I lived in when I teaching myself web development: “If you told your friend you would be at their house at 8am Saturday to help them move, you’d show up for them right? Because your word means a lot and you can’t be flaky. So my question is, why don’t

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Good morning. I’m up and deploying a major update to @GPTutor_ . Then I’m going to do my absolute best to not touch a computer until after Christmas and focus in on family. How’s your morning/afternoon/evening?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

Reminder: if you see your fellow human in distress, it’s okay to gently ask if they need help.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

It’s 7:15 and my kids are still sleeping. Weak. Christmas morning was crack of dawn wake up when we were kids.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

I have an obscene amount of Assistants with OpenAI at this point. They all have very specific jobs, they all use different models, and they are all making my life much easier. Forget about ChatGPT, Assistants are where it's at.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

My 16gb M1 Air has not skipped a beat. For once, I have zero desire for a new Mac. Is this growing up?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Why do people say fullstack is a myth? I’m not sure I understand this joke.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

Political and misogynistic Twitter creeping into my timeline is really about to make me abandon this platform. I know there are shitty people out there. I don’t need their shitty tweets making my timeline shitty.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

Made this fun little compass loader, I'm actually enjoying writing frontend these days. 👀Also a slight hint at the new brand.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

I’ve been building with AI for almost a year. Almost entirely with OpenAI’s APIs. Today I don’t feel like writing code, so I’m learning how AI is doing what it’s doing. Specifically, I’m going to implement a local RAG.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

It's been a few weeks now, but I have to give credit where it is due. I hired @Issa_mzk to completely redo GPTutor's landing page and he did a phenomenal job, took what I had and improved upon it. My only regret is that I didn't hire him sooner. I was being stubborn and spent

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

I’ve yet to hear a convincing argument that AI will replace developers. I’ve also yet to hear a convincing argument that AI won’t replace developers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

I'm so stoked on this progress and now I'm supposed to sleep?!

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

No matter how old I get, coming home to my parent’s house will always be special. Super thankful for my little corner of the world and the people in it. 😊 Hope everyone is finding peace this weekend.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

I think I’m going to start periodically watching live streams of people coding. I’d really appreciate suggestions on who should I watch? I’m more interested in ones that are educational and informative, over ones that are entertaining. Bonus if it’s someone who is consistent

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

@eloffd @pearlythingz She’s just bottom feeding for likes, attention, and unfortunately money. She knows exactly what she’s doing and won’t stop because sad people on the internet reward her for it.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

It's crazy that big tech companies have features that they don't publicize. But once you're a big enough customer, or you simply just ask for it, they send you secret docs on how to use said features. Looking at you Stripe.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

@lucidcoderio weight training. Something absolutely therapeutic about throwing weights around. Could not tell you what it is.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

I am barreling full speed towards burnout. Today, I work late to ship everything that everyone needs from me for work and my side project. Tomorrow-Sunday, I unplug from all devices and enjoy family and recovery. Monday, we’re back it at. 100mph.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Maybe it's who I follow but I don't see enough people talking about user discovery as part of indie hacking. Are you all doing it and keeping under wraps? Or is your shit so good that you build it and users appear? How do you know you're building the right thing?

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

Does anyone else’s productivity ebb and flow? Right now, I’m in an extreme flow. For the last week or so, I’ve been consistently putting in time after work and evening parenting duties, reading and side projects. This will inevitably be followed by an extreme ebb, where I’ll

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

After building a 850 piece Lego set with a 5 and 3 year old, I’m ready for engineering management 😅

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

POV: it’s the end of the day, the last day before a nice holiday break. You wrap up a big feature you’ve been working on, run your unit tests and this. 😒

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

I know this is mostly a vanity metric but I’ve made 653 commits and 111,929 additions to our backend at work. It’s a nice quantification of my last 2.5 years of work. I’m so thankful that I landed in software development. 🚀 The next few years will be all about pushing and

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

Dropped my blue check. With the target audience moving from B2C to B2B, it's seemingly a lot less valuable to pay for reach.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Always funny that people are on applications built in JavaScript to trash JavaScript.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Squashed two bugs on GPTutor. Now i'm going to switch gears to play around with Create Melange App by @dillon_mulroy . Going to try to spin up a quick little fun project I've been wanting to build in it. Excited to properly dig into ReasonML.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

Covid is in my house again. I’m basically sprinting to get as much done as I can before it takes me down. Closing tickets like mad today.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

@kelbels_ Moving away from my senior level in advertising to start over as a junior in development. I love my job and career now and my ceiling is so much higher. It was a tough but great decision. I’ve got my wife to thank, she held it down while my salary plummeted for a bit.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

1 year

My kids are finding it hilarious to ask me what shampoo i use at bath time. I’m bald and they are cruel.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Here is a repo with some of they keyboard bindings I've been using in VSCode. These have allowed me to make VSCode feel more vim-like without me having to use vim. My goal was to not use my mouse inside of VSCode and these have helped me achieve it. Feedback and contribution is

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

8 months

Sometimes you need a strict Pomodoro day to make sure shit gets done. Today is one of those days. (Yes, I am tweeting this during a 5 minute break)

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

How many folks have actually built with AI up to this point? Side project? At work? Just in a sandbox? Would love to hear how much experience people have in it at this point. (I mean using AI in your stack, not developing it)

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Lowkey so excited to help my kids build all the legos Santa is bringing them.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

I saw a company whose roadmap was posted online. It was a Jira board with fully fleshed out tickets. They also allow the public to upvote features. Is this common? I thought it was a fantastic approach to product.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

9 months

@TheWarEnglish Too much damn sugar Or Sugar in fucking everything

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Node is awesome and JS (preferably TS) is fine on the server in 95% of use cases. Y’all just haters. ♥️

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

Had my second mentor/mentee get up today after I threw a message out a few weeks ago. They have been great, he has a super solid project we get to review and find opportunities to push it forward. It’s been a great reminder for me how fun it is to learn to code and be on that

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

7 months

Whenever I give my three year old a new toy, all he wants to do is get a screw driver and take it apart.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

I graduated from university 8 years ago today 🤯👴🏾. Kind of wild how fast that time went.

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

10 months

Does being a developer feel like being an athlete to any of yall? You get out of programming what you put into it. It’s cool to have a career where I can control my trajectory so much with the effort I put into it. This is what being an athlete in school felt like. It’s

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Aaron Ware

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1 year

Advice for juniors who just landed their first development job: Embrace the things that nobody else wants to do. If you find gaps in documentation or testing, take initiative and close those gaps. The benefit is two fold: 1. You will understand the code base better 2. You

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Aaron Ware

@EarnWhere

11 months

@cloudnativechlo @TheOdinProject alone took me from nothing to hired in 9 months

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Aaron Ware

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10 months

This project has taught me so much more about AI than I anticipated, which is cool. Start projects y’all and don’t quit when the shit gets hard.

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Aaron Ware

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10 months

My 5 year old is playing Mario Kart on 200cc without any assistance. I respect his ambition, but it’s not going well.

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