professional-programming VS build-your-own-x

Professional Programming by Charles-Axel Dein

The inclusion of the perspective section: https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming?tab=read... I think is really smart. Same for personal productivity. Two things that can dramatically change how and what you end up studying and doing with your time / life.

I did a coding bootcamp and yeah the frontend knowledge they taught was useful, but I could have learned that online for free. Looking back, the far more valuable thing I learned was how to discipline myself and my time - that was the first time in my life I was truly disciplined and mindful in how I spent my time. I also got perspective I'd never seen before: there was some folks in my cohort that were in their 30s and 40s and undergoing career change, and I learned two things from them: First, don't stress too much, your life has much more flexibility than you might expect (this truth is borne out, they all have perfectly successful careers in their new lives as engineers), and second, make a great use of the time you have.

Bog-standard advice we all know, but to witness it firsthand from people living it and sharing it is different. The shared article in the github is incredible: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/07/termin...

I often wonder why I don't see more of these sorts of articles. From watching a family member slowly die of cancer, and from reading books like "When Breath Becomes Air," I'm guessing it's some combination of exhaustion, disability, and a new set of priorities that doesn't really involve death blogging. Still, I find these kinds of writings more poignant than most things I read.

Also this repo helps https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming

1. Professional Programming

Professional Programming. As reported, The goal of this page is to make you a more proficient developer. If you have excellent resources, you can try to open a PR and include them here. But in any csae, I wanted to include this because it seems super interesting.

Build your own tools — Follow the Build Your Own X guide

Build Your Own X Crazy list of “build it yourself” tutorials

Have you ever thought of building your own shell — or anything you use in your daily tasks? It could be an IDE, a simple database, or even a text editor. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the exciting journey of building a shell using the Codecrafters platform. I’ll share why the experience is amazing and why you should absolutely give it a try!

(https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x)

🚀 2. Build Your Own X 📍 https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x  Why it's awesome:  Want to build a compiler? An OS? A blockchain? This repo has guides to build nearly everything from scratch, making it ideal for deep learners. ✅ Best For: Intermediate to advanced devs  📘 Covers: OS, Git, Docker, Database, Neural Net  🧠 Pro Tip: Use it to create capstone projects or interview prep.

Build Your Own X A collection of projects like “Build your own Git”, “Docker”, “Redis”, etc.

Finally, to finish up, I present to you - Build-your-own-x. This is a vercel-app forked from: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x ⭐

> If software development is your 9-5, and not your passion. How do you keep improving?

You don't really. If you are not able to find 3h a week to make at least one tutorial a week, then do it once a month, but if you are not open to learn outside the job, no matter if it is software development or anything else, I don't see how you can improve.

And yes, the best advice is to build things, you don't have to build complicated things. Build things you enjoy. It will help you find time for it. Check https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x - or search on youtube for any tutorial of things you like.

Do things you enjoy, and try to finish what you start - but don't overthink if you don't. Just keep building. If it's hard to finish, try to build something smaller, or easier.

ID: i13 Tags: Code, Tutorials Description: Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch. GitHub Link | Website Link