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7 DEVs writing quality content about your #career

I don't have much time to write about careers right now but fortunately there are plenty of cool people that you can follow instead!

Erik Dietrich

Why? @daedtech is the author of Developer Hegemony. I you like what I've written about recently, you should know that found many ideas that I liked, and then I stole those them like an artist.

A taste

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Julia

Why? @yuridevat is a selftaught front end wizard from Vienna who not only write well about accessibility and stuff, but also shares her advice on how to get into tech

A taste

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Why? @darkterminal has a very original take on what he calls a character driven approach to choose your career. I noticed a couple of interesting comments from him, but I can't summarize the, read it yourself!

A taste

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Josefine Schfr

Why? @josefine does developer relations, so if you dream about showing your ideas in a conference but are terrified when you consider to actually do it, she has lots of content about that very topic.

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Jarrod Roberson

Why? @jarrodhroberson has given constantly high quality comments on my articles, so I went to read his articles, and let met report that he is a very experienced developers that is very efficient at cutting through the non-sense of the hype-du-jour.

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Maddy

Why? @maddy is a technical writer, another career change that is opened to you if you are both a dev and like writing here

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Erin, Sloan and The DEV team

Why? @erinposting and @sloan are members of the DEV/Forem team and they post frequent questions on the tag #devdiscuss that you will probably find interesting.

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That was it for me.

Obviously this kind of list can never be complete, but we can crowdsource the research.

Who else do you recommend?

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Hello, Punk! Thanks to put my content on the lists. That really help me to spread the new era of Software Freestyle Engineer that doing code while dancing.

Hat Off! πŸ”₯

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Michael Tharrington

Such an awesome list here! πŸ”₯

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Rachel Fazio

Super sweet list! Thanks for the Sloan shoutout too!

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Rachel-Lee Nabors

Not to toot my own horn, but I've been writing my book "The Big Tech Survival Guide for the Rest of Us" on my substack. I love getting feedback and requests for topics! Please feel free to reach out if this is your jam :)

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Hello Rachel, you got me with this quote from your friend

β€œI don’t think I’ll ever forgive Microsoft for hiring the single greatest group of humans I’ll most likely ever work with and then making it impossible for us to stay.”

I just subscribed :)

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DR

Thanks for this list! Very helpful :)

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Dauda Lawal

Great! well done.

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Erik Dietrich

Thanks for the mention and the kind words :D

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Mary Andree

Thanks for the good list :)

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I think the fastest way to knowledge comes from learning from others, which in turn depends mostly on listening and asking questions a la Socrates - the only thing I know is that I know nothing.

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Maddy

Thank you for mentioning me! So sweet of you. ❀️