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I've been a dev for 11 years. 5 things I learned

mdhilwan on August 29, 2019

I have been a software developer / engineer for the past 11 years. And here are 5 things that I learned. Here is a little context: I do not have...
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Damir Franusic

You made me laugh with all those animated gifs 🤣. I'm fortunate enough to keep my distance from web development and the very mention of JS makes me cringe.

Number 3 in your list is my favourite type of horrible character trait. I am enraged by those sort of deflated bubbles of rotten knowledge, the so called know-it-all engineers.

If anyone of us were to know everything without the help of Google, we'd end up traumatised. It's not viable to expect a single person to keep up with all the advances and changes happening in the field of IT.

Entertaining article,
Thanks

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mdhilwan

Glad you like it :)

my search is not like your search

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Hahaha I totally agree that ideas are cheap, execution is key especially when a person comes to me to pitch me a new idea.

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Colin Lord

Thanks for taking the time to write this. Loved the gifs and there's a lot of wisdom in here!

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Remy Testa

I like this kind of post thanks !

I liked this part :

Cutting down npm build script build time from 13 sec to 0.7 sec

I use yarn and it's more faster =)

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mdhilwan

Your most welcome :) Yeah I wish I can change my build process to Yarn but we use a private repo which only has "approved" build tools. So things are a bit limited.

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mdhilwan

Anyway glad you like the post :)

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mdhilwan

Confucious said,

Don't kill a mosquito with a cannon

The exact definition of over-engineering. Lol! :) Glad you liked it

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Sujon Reza

Thanks, it will be helpful

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Michiel Hendriks • Edited

The only constant is change

And in the end the change was constant.

I feel the more a thing changes, the less relevant it becomes.

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Paweł

Its great that you've shared your thoughts and experience ! It'll be helpful.