Recently, I have been utterly overwhelmed with many front end news, posts, top tips, “see what you can do with x and y”, learn more javascript, lea...
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You got this!!! workout to destress, take a day off to relax your brain.
Frontend masters works as well
frontendmasters.com/
A great post that helped me
dev.to/daedtech/politeness-or-blun...
Great links. I will check out front end masters. That post about code review was something I absolutely needed. Thanks!
You will never read it all. It will keep coming. In addition the front end world is so vast, you will never learn it all. Pick one thing (after careful consideration) and learn/read/apply that.
If that one thing falls out of style, or doesn't apply to your current project, congratulations! You can pick a new one thing!
Years of doing this took me through JavaScript, HTML and CSS, on to jQuery, a daliance with SharePoint that lead me to Angular 1, then v2 and now Stenciljs and web components. Sure I've POC'd React and Vue, and there's a million helper libraries I've learned and forgotten along the way, but I always knew what that one thing that I was an expert in at the time was, and that helped me focus.
Don't put blinders on and start hammering screws because the hammer's your one and ONLY thing... But with a solid base in the vanilla technologies I'm sure your one thing will serve you well for a couple of years... And then you get to know a new one thing!
There's always time to learn, just point in one direction at a time :D
It’s crazy the amount of libraries out there for javascript and sometimes I often thinking “what’s wrong with just vanilla javascript?” Then realised I could be opening the flood doors!
“Solid base in vanilla technologies” << I must remember to remind myself this. Thank you!
Just pick one thing at a time. Let all other things go. Even if it means you are lagging behind. Finish one thing then move to another. Nothing stays relevant forever. Jquery is not much used as much as once it was. Soon react and angular will die the same death. Front end world is like fashion industry. It keeps changing. I have reduced a lot of feeds from my social media and usually prefer devto for finding new stuff.
“Front end world is like fashion industry” - absolutely right. I like this.
Man, I struggle with the same thing! I have started to reduce the feeds I am subscribed to. I also try to assign 1 day a week to read them, this helps me focus on the remaining days and not get too caught up in the framework of the day.
I say, as long as you are creating products that work and give value, the end user doesn't care if you are using the latest tech. If you are effective and confident in the technologies, then who cares...not your users.
Sounds great that you are giving time to your hobbies, I think that is key!
Keep your head up and keep moving forward!
Much appreciated for the reply. I have reduced a lot of my feeds and feeling much better for it. Workout and hobbies are so important to have :-)
I reached a similar point earlier in my career. I decided I would check echojs.com about once a week and make no other effort. In 3 years I haven’t missed out on anything noteworthy and I don’t plan to ever go back to how it was before.
Sounds like changing FOMO to JOMO (joy of missing out). That’s a nice site, simple and take your pick whatever you want to read.
These are solid advices that I will be taking on board. I am completely unaware about the Garter Hype Cycle which I will be keeping an eye on from time to time.
In the world of technology, people intends to forget the origin of programming! I wonder if the world of programming, people intends to have a goldfish memory...
I fully agree about 5. This is the trouble I have for many years because I never remember 'names' of things! Thank you kindly for commenting!
I have just recently published a post about my life story and how it led me to my current state, a full blown burnout. I actually wanted to express my issues somehow and decided to try writing about it. It turns out that writing is my newly found hobby which actually helps me to mitigate burnout effects. I wish I could suggest something helpful but apparently, coping mechanisms vary greatly from person to person. I decided to forget about all web and mobile related stuff and focus on ONE thing only, the thing that I find most fulfilling, C socket and parser programming. Like I mentioned in my post, our brains can't keep up anymore with the advances in software and hardware.
I hope you manage to get on track,
Cheers
Can you take a few days fully off go refresh?
Yes! I got time off work starting in a week time and going to use it to pursue my hobbies.