David Ojeda

Web enthusiast 🕸

Personal finance in Spanish @PerroDinero

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I got paid for my first freelance gig 🥳

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A fun way to sharpen your CSS selectors: https://t.co/2EqrdeK3U4 🍎🍛🍅

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie

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Ignore the number of views/likes when starting your blog.

It will only let you down.

Focus on finding your voice.

Write for yourself.

Enjoy the process 🙌🏼

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How to add a cursor to every line on @code:

CMD + a (select all)
⬇️
OPTION + SHIFT + i

That's one thing I have to Google *every single time*. Not anymore!

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You'll probably never stop comparing yourself to others, and that's okay.

They have their context, you have yours.

Acknowledge that fact and free yourself.

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Struggling with a bug?

- Meditate 🧘‍♀️
- Go for a walk 🚶‍♂️
- Take your dog out 🐕
- Do some push-ups 🏋️‍♂️

Anything. Just stay away from your computer for a while

You'll come back fresh and with new ideas 💡

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Praise in public.

Criticize in private.

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"If you have to choose between being clever and obscure or simple and straightforward, I advise you to be simple and straightforward." 💬

- The Copywriter's Handbook by Robert W. Bly

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Want to know if an #AWS CLI command is properly formatted? ✅

Or if the user has enough permissions to execute an action without actually running the command? 🔐

Use the "--dry-run" option to simulate running the command 👇🏼

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Focus on the small wins that will lead you to the big wins

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One of the best ways to achieve a better estimate is to adjust it constantly- your first estimate will probably be orders of magnitude off. Adjust!

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Consuming ⚠️ Easy to start, hard to stop.

Producing ✅ Hard to start, easy to stop.

Most good things in life are hard but worth it. Let go and start producing! 👏🏼

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"Early in the project you can have firm cost and schedule targets or a firm feature set, but not both." 💬

—Software Project Survival Guide, by Steve McConnell 📕

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Make it valuable 📈

then easy 🙌🏼

then fast ⚡️

then pretty 🤩

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You don’t need to know your current framework/language documentation from top to bottom, but you need to know:

✨How to solve problems.
✨Where to look for information when required.
✨How to Duck (@DuckDuckGo)

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People with diverse backgrounds are more likely to solve complex problems than teams of specialized people.

Make sure you have diversity in your team

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One way I cope with anxiety as a software developer is to remind myself that we are all on the same journey.

We all struggle

We all have good days

We all have bad days

#DevDiscuss

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Change your product's landing page "features" section to "benefits"

I'm more interested in what can I gain as opposed to what you can do

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My learning process for new technologies:

✨ Get interested
✨ Understand the value proposition
✨ Read what current users say about it
✨ Define a project
✨ Skim almost all docs
✨ Start building and filling the gaps on the run ♻️

What's your process? 😁

#CodeNewbie

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Don't say: I'll fix it later.

Fix it now.

Make managing technical debt a part of your project or feature.

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You are not what you say

You are not your follower count

You are not your income

You are what you do