One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Frankly the article was not hard to write. Nothing groundbreaking. And by using the interview format I delegated half of the work to someone else :)
.... and yet that's my most successfull article so far!
We are so often obsessed with impressing our peers - that's what developer conferences are all about - that we forget that there is a shitload of new developers in this industry, plus a shitload lot of developers switching to new things
=> Lowering the bareers to entry is at least as important as trying to expand the sum of all IT knowledge
I'm a fan of Open Source and have a growing interest in serverless and edge computing. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but they're doing good work eating bugs. I also stream on Twitch.
I published this article, with an interesting meta lessoon:
Best ways to learn Kotlin: from scratch or from Java, with books or tutorials, online or in the IDE
Jean-Michel Fayard π«π·π©πͺπ¬π§πͺπΈπ¨π΄ γ» Dec 15 γ» 6 min read
Frankly the article was not hard to write. Nothing groundbreaking. And by using the interview format I delegated half of the work to someone else :)
.... and yet that's my most successfull article so far!
We are so often obsessed with impressing our peers - that's what developer conferences are all about - that we forget that there is a shitload of new developers in this industry, plus a shitload lot of developers switching to new things
=> Lowering the bareers to entry is at least as important as trying to expand the sum of all IT knowledge
Noice!