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- http://www.aimeemarieknight.com
- AJ O\u2019Neal
- Aaron Frost
- https://2013.boston.wordcamp.org/speakers/
Special Guests: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwbuecheler In this episode, the panel talks with https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwbuecheler who is an author, blogger, web developer, and founder of CloseBrace. The panel and Christopher talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone. With a technological world that is ever changing, it is important to always be learning within your field. Check out today\u2019s episode to learn more!Show Topics:0:00 \u2013 https://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui?utm_campaign=kendo-ui-awareness-jsjabber&utm_medium=social-paid&utm_source=devchattv 1:08 \u2013 Aimee: Our guest is Christopher Buecheler \u2013 tell us about yourself and what you do.1:22 \u2013 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwbuecheler I run a site and help mid-career developers. I put out a weekly newsletter, too.2:01 \u2013 Aimee: It says that you are a fan of \u201cgetting comfortable being uncomfortable\u201d?2:15 \u2013 Guest: I am a self-taught developer, so that means I am scrambling to learn new things all the time. You are often faced with learning new things. When I learned React I was dumped into it. The pain and the difficulty are necessary in order to improve. If you aren\u2019t having that experience then you aren\u2019t learning as much as you could be.3:26 \u2013 Aimee: I borrow lessons that I learned from ice-skating to programming.3:49 \u2013 Guest: I started running a few years ago for better health. It was exhausting and miserable at the start and wondered why I was doing it. Now I run 5 times a week, and there is always a level of being uncomfortable, but now it\u2019s apart of the run. It\u2019s an interesting comparison to coding. It\u2019s this idea of pushing through.5:01 \u2013 Aimee: If you are comfortable you probably aren\u2019t growing that much. In our industry you always have to be learning because things change so much!5:25 \u2013 Guest: Yes, exactly. If you are not careful you can miss opportunities.6:33 \u2013 Panel: You have some ideas about frameworks and libraries \u2013 one thing that I am always anxious about is being able to make sense of \u201cwhat are some new trends that I should pay attention to?\u201d I remember interviewing with someone saying: this mobile thing is just a fad. I remember thinking that she is going to miss this opportunity. I am worried that I am going to be THAT guy. How do you figure out what sort of things you should / shouldn\u2019t pay attention to?7:47 \u2013 Guest: It is a super exhausting thing to keep up with \u2013 I agree. For me, a lot of what I pay attention to is the technology that has the backing of a multi-million dollar company then that shows that technology isn\u2019t going anywhere, anytime soon. The other thing I would look at is how ACTIVE is the community around it?9:15 \u2013 Panel: Is there a strategic way to approach this? There is so many different directions that you can grow and push yourself within your career? Do you have any kinds of thoughts/tips on how you want your career to evolve?10:00 \u2013 Guest: I am trying to always communicate better to my newsletter audience. Also, a good approach, too, is what are people hiring for?\xa011:06 \u2013 Aimee: Again, I would say: focus on learning.11:30 \u2013 Panel: And I agree with Aimee \u2013 \u201clearn it and learn it well!\u201d12:01 \u2013 Panel: I want to ask Chris \u2013 what is https://blog.closebrace.com 12:17 \u2013 Guest: I founded it in November 2016, and started work on it back in 2013.14:20 \u2013 Panel: It was filled with a bunch of buzz worthy words/title.14:32 \u2013 Guest continues his thoughts/comments on https://blog.closebrace.com 16:54 \u2013 Panel: How is the growth going?17:00 \u2013 Guest: It is growing very well. I put out a massive, massive tutorial course \u2013 I wouldn\u2019t necessarily advice that people do this b/c it can be overwhelming. However, growth this year I have focused on marketing. I haven\u2019t shared numbers or anything but it\u2019s increased 500%, and I am happy about it.18:05 \u2013 Panel: Are you keeping in-house?18:13 \u2013 Guest: I think it would be cool to expand, but now it is in-house. I don\u2019t want to borrow Egg Head\u2019s setup. I would love to cover MORE topics, though.19:05 \u2013 Panel: You are only one person.19:08 \u2013 Guest: If I can get the site creating more revenue than I can hire someone to do video editing, etc.19:35 \u2013 Panel: I think you are overthinking it.19:45 \u2013 Guest.19:47 \u2013 https://sentry.io/welcome/ 20:47 \u2013 Guest.21:30 \u2013 Aimee: There are SO many resources out there right now. Where do you think you fit into this landscape?21:44 \u2013 The landscape is cluttered, but I feel that I am different b/c of my thoroughness. I don\u2019t always explain line by line, but I do say how and why things work. I think also is my VOICE. Not my radio voice, but the tone and the approach you take with it.23:25 \u2013 Panel: I was trying to copy folks in the beginning of my career. And at some point I realized that I needed to find my own style. It always came down to the reasons WHY I am different rather than the similarities. Like, Chris, you have these quick hits on CloseBrace, but some people might feel like they don\u2019t have the time to get through ALL of your content, because it\u2019s a lot. For me, that\u2019s what I love about your content.24:46 \u2013 Christopher: Yeah, it was intentional.25:36 \u2013 Panel: Good for you.25:49 \u2013 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwbuecheler I am super device agnostic: Android, Mac, PC, etc. I have a lot of people from India that are more Microsoft-base.26:28 \u2013 Aimee: I think Egghead is pretty good about this...do you cover testing at all with these things that you are doing? It\u2019s good to do a \u201cHello World\u201d but most of these sites don\u2019t get into MORE complex pieces. I think that\u2019s where you can get into trouble. It\u2019s nice to have some boiler point testing, too.27:18 \u2013 Guest answers Aimee\u2019s question. 28:43 \u2013 Aimee: We work with a consultancy and I asked them to write tests for the things that we work with. That\u2019s the value of the testing. It\u2019s the code that comes out.29:10 \u2013 Panel: Can you explain this to me. Why do I need to write tests? It\u2019s always working (my code) so why do I have to write a test?29:39 \u2013 Guest: When working with AWS I was writing...31:01 \u2013 Aimee: My biggest thing is that I have seen enough that the people don\u2019t value testing are in a very bad place, and the people that value testing are in a good place. It even comes back to the customers, because the code gets so hard that you end up repeatedly releasing bugs. Customers will stop paying their bills if this happens too often for them.33:00 \u2013 Panel: Aimee / Chris do you have a preferred tool? I have done testing before, but not as much as I should be doing.33:25 \u2013 Aimee: I like https://jestjs.io and https://github.com/smooth-code/jest-puppeteer 33:58 \u2013 Guest: I like https://jestjs.io, too.34:20 \u2013 Aimee: Let\u2019s go to PICKS!34:35 \u2013 https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ Links:
- https://www.javascript.com
- https://jquery.com
- https://reactjs.org
- https://elixir-lang.org
- http://elm-lang.org
- http://closebrace.com
- https://jestjs.io
- https://github.com/smooth-code/jest-puppeteer
- https://podflix.app
- https://github.com/wting/autojump
- https://brutalist-web.design
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrR_gm6RqCo
- https://balloonfiesta.com
- https://www.docz.site
- http://closebrace.com
- http://cwbuecheler.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwbuecheler
- https://github.com/cwbuecheler
- https://gomakethings.com
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