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Jason Harrel
Jason Harrel

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It's A Scary Time Right Now.

We're all in a weird time right now with COVID-19. We don't know when we will return to work, be able to leave the house or see friends. There's so much uncertainty that it's quite scary.

One thing to keep in mind is to find yourself to keep learning. To keep trying to learn new things and see where you can take yourself. One way to do this is to ramp up some of those old tutorials on how build fun things. You know, things that will keep you moving and shaking in this crazy world of code!

In the past few days I've build a YouTube clone, a book app that pulls information from Google Books and kept myself learning from new areas that always give me trouble.

It's a scary time for sure, but have some fun and find something new that can keep you moving to keep your knowledge sharp and ready.

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Ben Calder

If you're at home in isolation; you're younger than 60; reasonably healthy and can work online then there's not much to he concerned about.
For far too many people the risk of premature death as a result of poverty and disease is a daily fact of life.
It's great that we have the luxury to use this time productively; but it's worth spending some time considering what can be done to help those who don't.

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Emma Goto 🍙

I'm trying to take this as an opportunity to nail down a solid daily schedule (now that I don't have a commute it's given me more freedom with how I do things) and to spend more time with my dog 🥰

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Zen

Don't panic and stay work from home.