Hasty Treat - Non-Glamorous Skills You Should Have
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats - Een podcast door Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the non-glamorous skills that will improve your life as a developer!
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Show Notes
3:13 - Why it’s needed
- Make you a better dev
- Make big tasks easier
7:00 - Why we don’t do it
- Because it’s hard
- It’s boring - sometimes
- It’s not our focus
7:24 - Good command line skills
- Get around file system
- Copy, move, delete things
8:58 - Keyboard skills
- Jump by word/line/BOL/EOL
- Learn 1 new shortcut per week
- Custom keybindings for common tasks
14:22 - Communication and interpersonal skills
14:41 - Time management
- Focus apps to help
- How long will something take?
- Revisit past projects when they are done and see how long it took
16:36 - Good file hygiene
- Good folder structure
- Delete old cruft
- Clear your recycle
- Desktop and downloads are off-limits
- Create template structures or tools for commonly used structures
Links
- Wes’ Command Line Power User Course
- Synology
- VSCode
- React PropTypes Generate
- Syntax 125: Hasty Treat - Communication Skillz
- CleanMyMac
- DaisyDisk
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- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
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