Notes to self

• Javascript is seriously pretty freaking awesome these days. I remember when it was all about cursor followings, no right clicks, and horrible password protection. Not too mention, no good for accessibility.

Angsts

• Coworker told me learning how to use the google recaptcha in a project would take 30 hours. Oh, hun. It’s seriously a drop-in and minimal configure. This just reads as- I don’t want to do it because you suggested it and I want an even easier solution.

Passionates

• I’m digging the debugger in the Firefox console. I mean, I’ve used it before, but I’m sure no where near what I’m doing now. Such improvement on the old days. Let’s get it.
• Yep. I’m annoying. I’m the girl who will change all your deprecated CRAP HTML to standards (after ensuring it works and that the user base are using standards compliant devices). Oh, I’ll be spreading some lets, consts, et all ALL up in your JavaScript. I know most of the people I work with are old-heads, heck, I am too. But I see NO ONE wanting gotos. Let’s move forward.

Olio

• So what’s your daily practice look like? I mean, if you are a programmer, you program. But how do you learn at work all the while working?

Some suggestions:

• listen to programming podcasts
• listen to and casually view LiveStream programmers and Youtube tech chats
• Read a code review on a code review site
• Follow some good blogs that’ll help you learn more. I recommend really only reading one. Save the rest somewhere like Pocket
• Do a code exercise — best tip for this, don’t do it in your primary IDE. Do it somewhere that won’t give you all of the boilerplate and hints, but still keeps some niceties like color coding
• Research a small but complicated topic in your language of choice. The best for this is looking int a specific method, function, or package and learning it inside out
• Watch a video on coding practices
• Watch a video that will make you more efficient in your tools
• Blog, share

Rant

These are little things you can do during breaks at work, and still get everything done. I do want to say, I don’t care too much for all these latest tirades on people working at home and or being passionate about coding. I had someone tell me coding couldn’t be a hobby. This was an artist! You know, someone who constantly blurs the line between profession and hobby. Suffice to say, it can definitely be a hobby. It can also, definitely, just be your job. Do you. Like what you like. Is that too hard for some people? Know yourself. Know what you can take on. Know when to take breaks. Know when you need to shelf something for a few months to come back to it later. Outside of that, the sky is the limit.

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Goooooo Raptors!