Sloan&#39;s Inbox Series&#39; Articles

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 10 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How Do Badges Work on DEV?

#discuss #meta

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 11 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Newbie Seeking Guidance on Real-life Project

#discuss #career

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 18 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Navigating Career Confusion in ICT Domain

#discuss #career #ict

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: What's Your Advice on Where to Start and How to Study in the World of Coding?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 19 '23

Sloan's Inbox: What's Your Advice on Where to Start and How to Study in the World of Coding?

#discuss #beginners #learning

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 25 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How Do You Balance Values and Professional Work?

#discuss #career

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jun 1 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How to Approach Your Manager When Interviewing for a New Job?

#discuss #career

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jun 8 '23

Sloan's Inbox: What Skills Do I Need to Land a Jr. Position?

#discuss #career

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jun 15 '23

Sloan's Inbox: What Are Your Favorite Tags, Orgs, and Coding Challenges?

#discuss #codenewbie #showdev #tutorial

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jun 22 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How Do I Overcome Language Barriers in the Coding Community?

#discuss

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jun 29 '23

Sloan's Inbox: What is the Secret to a Truly Great Portfolio?

#discuss #beginners #career #careerdevelopment

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How Do You Find a Mentor That Is Right for You?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jul 6 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How Do You Find a Mentor That Is Right for You?

#discuss

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: What's it take to go from 0 dev skills to successful game developer?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jul 13 '23

Sloan's Inbox: What's it take to go from 0 dev skills to successful game developer?

#discuss #career #gamedev #beginners

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jul 20 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Considering taking a coding sabbatical...

#discuss #career #burnout

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jul 27 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Will working with legacy code hold me back?

#discuss #beginners #career #refactoring

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Any advice on how to advocate for a11y improvements at my org?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Aug 3 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Any advice on how to advocate for a11y improvements at my org?

#discuss #career #a11y

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Aug 10 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Applying for jobs with an inactive GitHub profile?

#discuss #career #beginners

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Bored... Is it time to get another job?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Aug 17 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Bored... Is it time to get another job?

#discuss #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for estimating work?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Aug 24 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for estimating work?

#discuss

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Sep 7 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Considering a role as a Dev Advocate, but worried about less coding & more marketing...

#discuss #devrel #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Do I need to write blog posts to be a successful dev?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Sep 14 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Do I need to write blog posts to be a successful dev?

#discuss

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Striving to be a T-shaped developer... how to find my specialization?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Sep 21 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Striving to be a T-shaped developer... how to find my specialization?

#discuss

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Oct 5 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How to connect with folks over Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #help #community

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How to stand out as a beginner dev?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Oct 12 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How to stand out as a beginner dev?

#discuss #codenewbie #beginner #help

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How and when to choose a JavaScript Framework?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Oct 19 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How and when to choose a JavaScript Framework?

#discuss #codenewbie #beginners #javascript

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Considering a career change from coding to graphic design, any advice?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Oct 26 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Considering a career change from coding to graphic design, any advice?

#discuss #career #design

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Advice for a dev hobbyist that wants to get a career in software development?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Nov 2 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Advice for a dev hobbyist that wants to get a career in software development?

#discuss #career #raspberrypi

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Nov 9 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Struggling to focus, any advice?

#discuss #productivity #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How do you find a mentor?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Nov 16 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How do you find a mentor?

#discuss #beginners #mentor

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: What strategies are most effective for retaining acquired knowledge?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Nov 30 '23

Sloan's Inbox: What strategies are most effective for retaining acquired knowledge?

#discuss #learning #productivity #beginners

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Dec 7 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How did open source come to be?

#discuss #learning #opensource

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Dec 14 '23

Sloan's Inbox: What's the hardest thing about being a developer?

#discuss #learning #opensource

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Any job-hunting advice for a newbie?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Dec 21 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Any job-hunting advice for a newbie?

#discuss #career #beginners #codenewbie

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Feeling like I'm not doing enough...

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Dec 28 '23

Sloan's Inbox: Feeling like I'm not doing enough...

#discuss #learning #opensource

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Is it realistic for someone's first developer job to be in game dev?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jan 4

Sloan's Inbox: Is it realistic for someone's first developer job to be in game dev?

#discuss #gamedev #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How do you improve focus?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jan 11

Sloan's Inbox: How do you improve focus?

#discuss #productivity #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: As a beginner, should I use AI as a tool and how?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jan 18

Sloan's Inbox: As a beginner, should I use AI as a tool and how?

#discuss #beginners #ai

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for overcoming a fear of public speaking?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Jan 25

Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for overcoming a fear of public speaking?

#discuss #speaking #conference #help

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Going With Vanilla JS or Frameworks as a Beginner?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Feb 1

Sloan's Inbox: Going With Vanilla JS or Frameworks as a Beginner?

#discuss #javascript #beginners #help

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for a web dev who is considering a career in cybersecurity?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Feb 8

Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for a web dev who is considering a career in cybersecurity?

#discuss #webdev #security #cybersecurity

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How to ask for a raise?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Feb 15

Sloan's Inbox: How to ask for a raise?

#discuss #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How would you approach designing an authentication system from scratch?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Feb 22

Sloan's Inbox: How would you approach designing an authentication system from scratch?

#discuss #authentication #help

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Am I too old to get into tech?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Feb 29

Sloan's Inbox: Am I too old to get into tech?

#discuss #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Did you face any unexpected challenges in your first dev job?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Mar 7

Sloan's Inbox: Did you face any unexpected challenges in your first dev job?

#discuss #career #beginners

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How to answer "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" when I'm content where I am.

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Mar 14

Sloan's Inbox: How to answer "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" when I'm content where I am.

#discuss #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Is security still an afterthought?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Mar 21

Sloan's Inbox: Is security still an afterthought?

#discuss #security #beginners

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Mar 28

Sloan's Inbox: How do you ask for help?

#discuss #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for calming an opinionated contributor? 😬

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Apr 4

Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for calming an opinionated contributor? 😬

#discuss #opensource #maintainer

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How important is understanding backend as a website designer?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Apr 11

Sloan's Inbox: How important is understanding backend as a website designer?

#discuss #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Pursuing passion or practicality?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Apr 18

Sloan's Inbox: Pursuing passion or practicality?

#discuss #career #gamedev

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How to Approach Beginners Writing On Worn-Out Topics?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Apr 25

Sloan's Inbox: How to Approach Beginners Writing On Worn-Out Topics?

#discuss #beginners #writing

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: How Do I Achieve a Four-Day Work Week?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 2

Sloan's Inbox: How Do I Achieve a Four-Day Work Week?

#discuss #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Will I Ever Feel Like I Know This Stuff?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 9

Sloan's Inbox: Will I Ever Feel Like I Know This Stuff?

#discuss #beginners #learning

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Can I make a career off of WordPress? Should I?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 16

Sloan's Inbox: Can I make a career off of WordPress? Should I?

#discuss #wordpress #career

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Cover image for Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for avoiding burnout?

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

May 23

Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for avoiding burnout?

#discuss #burnout #career