Introduction
I have been meaning to write a post like this one lately. Hopefully, I'll be able to keep it short. This was meant to be a ...
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So true.
I met many senior devs, who did >20 years of C and never wanted to learn something new, some of them getting unemployed in the process.
It seemed to me that they simply feared to become a newbie in the new technology and they wanted to be the awesome C dev they grow to be over the years.
Only the best tried new things every now and then and didn't fear to ask dumb newbie questions. That's how they became constantly successfull in their lifes.
Wow. That emphasizes this quote from the post which got to me the most:
Thank you Damien.
Some days ago, I wrote a text that is quite related to the one you did, because I really feel like I'm on that cycle again.
Yes, I think that this feeling that we, developers, have, is this anxiety to always be better, specially if not only, to ourselves. We always search for more knowledge, and always think that what we know is not enough. But as you said, sometimes I've felt that It was just only me, but reading Dev.to community made me feel not lonely in that matter.
And really, thank you for sharing that with us!
In case you are interested, thats what I wrote about this topic, in my point of view: Trying to be a real Dev
🙌 What a great story, I'm glad you've shared it.
It might be the zeitgeist, as I see a lot of calls for understanding the basics lately. Like Ben who recently wrote this post about Reading source material. It might be just me though, as I've been spending a lot of time refining my own skills and going back to the basics as well!
I feel totally identified with that:
" And most of this stuff is WAAAAY over my head. I'm reading Yellow Papers about blockchains writing in a language that is not my native language. On top of that, there are mathematical formulas, hexadecimals, cryptographic hashes...
If I started to learn about blockchain 2 years ago, I would have quit. "
You are writing very interesting articles about blockchain.
Thanks