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2020 Look-back Top Development Trends + Goals

John: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design.

  • John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.
  • JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer at a small analytics startup

Our 2020 Goals Episode → Link

✅ 2020 Developer Goals

2020 Review

JP

  • Goal 1 (JP): Build Elixir App: (C+)
    • I did build a really quick proof of concept Rust API that spits out some JSON
    • I also followed a tutorial for a full stack Golang app
  • Goal 2 (JP): System Design (F)
    • Did not read the books that I wanted to read
  • Goal 3 (JP): Algorithms - (C+)
    • Just haven't had the time - but I have reviewed some array based algorithms FWIW

John

  • Goal 1 (John): Blog More (C+) (12+ posts)
  • Goal 2 (John): (F) System Design (Nope)
  • Goal 3 (John): JavaScript (B+) 2 Courses, built way more shit in JS Stimulus Mainly
  • Goal 4 (John): Focus 💯 (Closed agency, no more clients, doubled down on what I am good at)

Top 2020 Trends (From John)

Picks

JP: https://www.rrauction.com/preview_gallery.cfm?Category=449

John: Rails starters:  https://jumpstartrails.com/ — https://bullettrain.co/

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