You can’t focus. You troll around Hacker News and all of the articles are about people younger than you doing cooler things, faster, and making millions doing it. You’re frustrated, depressed and unmotivated.
You’ve got the demons.
Web Development isn’t just data types and syntax – it’s really about problem solving. Sometimes the problems that need solving aren’t less about computers and more about people, and that can work to your advantage.
In this post, I discuss the first steps I took to stop being a salesman and start being a web developer. It wasn’t exactly a promising start…
I read an article a while back entitled Code Fearlessly. It talks about Git and how, as a result of good version control and software development practices, no developer should be afraid of “ruining” good code in search of a solution to a larger problem. I took a slightly modified lesson from that article, one that’s [...]