Alex Hyett

Software Developer and Freelance Writer with over 12 years worth of professional experience and many more before that. Self-confessed geek with a passion for programming and all things tech.

London, United Kingdom Joined on Oct 16, 2020 hello@alexhyett.com https://www.alexhyett.com

Education

Masters in Physics, University of Bath, UK

Work

Freelance Writer and Tech Educator

Terraform, Go, Rust

.Net, C#, SQL, Terraform, React.js, Vue.js, Python, Perl, PHP, Docker

I am currently creating videos about software development on my YouTube channel, as well as writing articles on my blog and for other companies.

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Feb 10

The biggest regret in my software engineering career

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

4 min read

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Jan 13

5 Books That Changed My Life

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Jan 5

How I Take (and Organise) My Notes As a Software Engineer

#studying #learning #tips #developer

7 min read

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Jun 4

Specialist vs Generalist ⚒️

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

6 min read

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Alex Hyett

Jun 2

Knowledge Management for Software Developers

#studying #learning #tips #developer

7 min read

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May 28

Engineering Manager vs Tech Lead 🧑🏻‍💻

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

7 min read

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May 26

Should you be blogging as a software developer?

#blogging #career #beginners #learning

10 min read

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May 21

When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job? 🚪

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

9 min read

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May 14

Taking Care of Your Mental Health as a Software Developer 🧠

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

9 min read

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May 12

Recursion explained with the help from Inception

#beginners #programming #coding #developer

4 min read

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May 7

How to Break a Monolith into Microservices

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

10 min read

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May 5

5 Hard Truths No-One Is Telling You About Software Engineering

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

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May 1

Software Engineering Promotions: Increase Your Chances of Getting to the Next Level 🚀

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

10 min read

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Apr 28

Domain-Driven Design: Simple Explanation

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

8 min read

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Apr 23

Don’t Build Your House on Someone Else’s Land

#entrepreneurship #business #career #motivation

5 min read

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Apr 21

10 Questions You Should Be Asking at your Technical Interview

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

5 min read

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Apr 16

Life Lessons Learned from the Stoics

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Apr 14

What is Event Driven Architecture?

#cloud #aws #architecture #developer

5 min read

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Apr 9

You Can’t Believe Your Eyes

#tech #tools #developer #productivity

7 min read

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Apr 7

AI Can’t Do This - SECRET to being a SUCCESSFUL Software Engineer

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

3 min read

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Apr 2

Does software development have an age limit?

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

4 min read

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Mar 31

Backend Developer Roadmap 2023

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

1 min read

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Mar 26

The Feynman Technique: Learn Quickly

#studying #learning #tips #developer

4 min read

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Mar 24

Best Coding Habits to Start Now

#habits #productivity #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Mar 20

Can we replace junior developers with ChatGPT?

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

7 min read

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Mar 17

Monolithic vs Microservice Architecture - Which Should You Use?

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

8 min read

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Mar 12

Stop caring what other people think

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

4 min read

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Mar 10

Top 5 Programming Languages to Learn in 2023 (to Get a Job)

#tech #tools #developer #productivity

5 min read

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Mar 9

1000 Subscribers in 5 Months: My Strategy

#youtube #programming #developer #motivation

12 min read

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Mar 5

Is there such a thing as job security?

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

5 min read

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Mar 3

Types of Software Testing Explained

#testing #programming #coding #developer

6 min read

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Feb 28

10 Best YouTube Channels for Software Developers

#youtube #programming #developer #motivation

4 min read

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Feb 26

Focus on Creating Instead of Consuming

#productivity #habits #motivation #learning

4 min read

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Feb 21

Python List Comprehension: With Examples

#beginners #programming #coding #developer

2 min read

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Feb 19

Content Creator Path 5-Month Update

#youtube #programming #developer #motivation

5 min read

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Feb 17

Hexagonal Architecture: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

5 min read

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Feb 13

Software Testing Methodologies - Guide

#testing #programming #coding #developer

5 min read

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Feb 12

Software developers shouldn’t start software companies

#entrepreneurship #business #career #motivation

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Feb 8

What motivates us?

#productivity #habits #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Feb 6

Snake Case vs Camel Case vs Pascal Case vs Kebab Case

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

4 min read

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Feb 5

Stop listening to your parents advice

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

4 min read

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Feb 3

Unit Testing vs Integration Testing - Key Differences

#testing #programming #coding #developer

13 min read

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Feb 1

What is CRUD? CRUD Operations in APIs

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

3 min read

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Jan 30

Hosting n8n for Free with Railway

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5 min read

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Jan 29

The Tale of the Mexican Fisherman

#money #motivation #career #developer

4 min read

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Jan 27

Automate Twitter with Notion and n8n

#tech #tools #developer #productivity

11 min read

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Jan 25

The Comfort Zone is Ruining Your Life

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

3 min read

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Jan 23

Warren Buffett’s 5/25 Rule is a Fake

#motivation #productivity #habits #learning

3 min read

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Jan 22

Will technology ever make our lives easier?

#tech #tools #developer #productivity

6 min read

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Jan 20

Why You Struggle to Learn to Code

#studying #learning #tips #developer

4 min read

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Jan 19

15 Best Books for Programmers You Should Read

#studying #learning #tips #developer

8 min read

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Jan 18

How I Use Morning Pages in My Daily Routine

#habits #productivity #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Jan 17

10 Essential Apps Every Developer Needs

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6 min read

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Jan 16

How to Succeed as an Introvert Engineer

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5 min read

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Jan 15

How to Find Work That You Will Love Doing

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7 min read

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Jan 14

Overcoming Fear By Doing What is Obvious

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Jan 12

YouTube Analytics: How I Grew My Channel in the First 3 Months

#youtube #programming #developer #motivation

7 min read

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Jan 11

12 Habits of Successful Senior Software Developers

#habits #productivity #motivation #learning

6 min read

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Jan 10

Finally Understand Regular Expressions: Regex isn't as hard as it looks

#beginners #programming #coding #developer

5 min read

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Jan 9

Why Developers Should Embrace No-Code Solutions

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

4 min read

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Jan 8

Does GPT-3 threaten your engineering job?

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

6 min read

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Jan 7

Why Buying More Stuff is Never Going to Make You Happy

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

4 min read

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Jan 6

How I would learn to code (if I could start over)

#beginners #programming #coding #developer

4 min read

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