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I coded daily for a year. I skipped when we went on holidays and Sundays. Even when I skipped, I got back to the streak as quickly as possible.
Here are ten lessons I learned in this year of coding.
- I am privileged
- Make it a morning routine
- Build something you need
- Default choices make you productive
- Keep a swipe file (backlog)
- Separate thinking and doing
- Dope vs. Discipline
- Everything takes more time than planned
- Can't do without the internet
- Obsess over fundamentals; not techniques and tools
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I once had a job where I had to wait for access to the computer network. That process took over 6 weeks. Because they moved me across country and did not plan for the delay, they still had me come into the office.
Every day I would use a 8 year old laptop with no internet connection to build a PHP version of Google Calendar. I was armed with a PHP book, and a CD of 20 dependencies someone downloaded for me to install on my machine.
So you can do it, but it was soooo hard.