I'm a backend engineer that does a ton with API's all day, but my front end kung-fu needs time in the dojo. What things do y'all do to learn technologies outside your daily wheelhouse?
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I build tiny apps that fit my interests! I find that smaller apps that focus on learning one technology keep me interested and they make it fun! I also have something to show at the end of the project.
I'm sure there are a few different ways to address this question, but I'll say: Try to take pressure off yourself and lose the FOMO. Putting pressure on yourself to learn these things isn't going to get you anywhere.
One more thought:
Attend a workshop. Face time with instructor can extremely valuable. I have not done much of this but I'm consistently amazed at how effective a day with a good teacher can be.
I usually make a small program that can help me with my daily routines. I try to make it with the technology and techniques I want to learn even if they aren't the best tool for that job.
I go on Youtube every weekend to do at least one random tutorial on stuff I have heard about, but never worked with. It helps me understand the different thought patterns of other devs, while I learn more about the technology itself. I also try to stay away from building to-do apps, they don't teach me what I am trying to learn
I work on some small projects to learn new technologies. For example Node.js. Besides this, I watch some YouTube videos, mostly from public speakers, to stay uptodate with new trends or read through free PDFs online.
Just playing around with stuff and watch youtube videos that interest you and documents the process in a blog post.
The best way is to actually share what you had learnt in a meetup, youtube video or a blog, it accelerates your learning process that was what I did for a workshop on building Amazon Alexa skills during Pycon.