Hi friends! I am a long-time advocate and silent reader of dev.to. I appreciate all the authors who posted their goodies in this industry here.
To start, this is my first time posting and sharing my thoughts as part of a new beginning.
Let me introduce myself, I’m Ben. I’ve been a fullstack developer for over 9 years. I’m also one of those who gets attracted to new shiny objects in terms of techs and frameworks (JS especially)
Just recently, I got laid off at one of the most company I liked working, with a great working environment. Emotionally, I was devastated. Not because I don’t have work anymore. But, the colleagues that I will be leaving.
So, after that, I did have lots of time to ponder and think about what to do next. Should I take days, weeks, or months off? Or should I act and continue going?
Then, it got me thinking. “I think it’s time for me to give back what I learned and provide my insights or thought process on real problems and scenarios and how I came up with a solution", this might help others that have a similar problem. I am also updating my CV and portfolios 😅.
With this first post, I am moving forward. I will be posting random real problems I experienced and how I dealt with them, how to grow and improve as a developer, how to overcome Impostor Syndrome, and the tools I use to keep me productive.
I think that’s all for this post and I will be posting more in the coming days.
By the way, here are the tools that I use for my workspace:
- Neovim (with LunarVim)
- Trello (For personal task management, and Jira for work)
- Alacritty - as my terminal
- TMUX - if you are a developer that spends so much time in terminal, you gotta try this, it’s amazing! 🔥🔥🔥
- exa - an alternative to ls
- Laravel Herd - I discovered this lately
- docker - you know what this is
- lazygit - a TUI for git
- lazydocker - a TUI for docker
- Oh-my-zsh - as my terminal shell
- MacOS - well, why not? 😅
- Figma - for UI and web design purposes
- TablePlus - for DB-client management.
Top comments (2)
Great set of tools! Been a neovim user for my self for almost three years now. 👌🏻
Great! I’d like to hear your story soon!