Worried you don't contribute to your team as an early career software engineer?
You got that first job as an early career software engineer after a long job hunt. You are ready to learn a lot and advance in your career.
Most times youâre fine, but sometimes you worry that you donât contribute much value to your team. That you ask stupid questions all the time. Or that you donât have the domain-specific knowledge required to estimate tickets accurately or to handle bugs quickly....
How to write Badass READMES for your Github projects
You show your GitHub project to people but they donât understand what the code is about. Why should you take time to write a good README if they can simply âread the codeâ?
They wonât even look at your code if you donât explain whatâs in it for them. Why should anyone care about it?
What about making them curious about your project? It saves them time, it shows you care about good communication and that by writing good docs you probably write good code as well....
Examples of Successful Self-Taught Developers
Letâs say youâre learning how to paint. When you look at the famous paintings at the museum, you might start asking yourself:
âWill I ever be this good? Is this for me? Will I ever get to paint something like this?â
If these questions sound familiar, itâs because youâre not alone. Itâs not just you.
The same questions can be applied to coding. Some things, like painting and learning how to code, are hard....
On the Job Hunt? Try this one thing to get experience as an early career Ruby dev
âWhy is it so difficult to find Junior Ruby on Rails dev roles?"
You have finished multiple online courses, workshops and might even read some books to learn Ruby. You start job hunting and you struggle to land a position because of your lack of experience.
So how do you get experience with large Ruby and Rails apps when no one wants to hire early-career devs?
Itâs a tough market for any early-career dev with little to no experience, so itâs no different with Ruby....
Rails Conf 2021 Talks for Early Career Devs
Now that all Rails Conf 2021 talks, keynotes and workshops are available on YouTube, you might be wondering which ones you should watch first.
If you are just getting started with your Rails or programming journey, hereâs a list of 6 talks for you (with resources):
1. Implicit to Explicit: Decoding Rubyâs Magical Syntax by Justin Gordon [Talk] Do you wish you could understand better what Rails does under the hood?...
Contribute to Ruby on Rails: filtering & reproducing issues
In the last Open Source Thursdays live, Thiago and I shared how we chose a few issues that looked promising for us.
By the end of the post, youâll learn how to filter issues, and how to start contributing to Rails by reproducing a bug.
How to choose your first Ruby on Rails issue Which one from the +300 open issues should you pick? We tried breaking this process down into 2 parts: filtering them by labels, then choosing one that seems easier to fix....
Open Source Thursdays
What is Open Source Thursdays? Open Source Thursdays is a new project from the hexdevs team, aka me and Thiago.
We started this project because weâve always wanted to contribute to rails! So we thought, why not do it live so more people can join us? Our goal is to make open source contributions more popular.
Neither of us has done this before. The plan is to get there and do everything live, no preparing in advance....
Should I Get an Internship or Keep Practicing my Coding Skills?
If youâre someone who decided to change careers to work as a web developer, then you might be having a hard time trying to land your first job. You arenât alone.
We all have heard that there are tons of tech jobs in the market but there arenât qualified professionals to fulfill them. So you go and spend days doing online courses and getting certifications so you can join the wave....
How to Contribute to Ruby on Rails Open Source project
Step 1: Decide to find one open-source project to contribute đ
Step 2: Keep looking đ
Step 3: They are all intimidating, is that normal? đ
Step 4: What if I contributed to a project I have lots of experience with, like rails? Iâd love to understand more about this tool I use every day đ€
Step 5: OMG, the code is huge and scary, Will this even run on my machine?...
Will I Find Work if I Learn Ruby in 2021
Ruby is keeping you interested in transitioning to the software development world. But youâre not sure youâre gonna be employable. You might have heard that you should just choose JavaScript because, you know, everyone is saying Ruby is a dying domain.
But you donât see yourself keeping up with the Kardashians traditional JS web dev world.
Youâve heard that there are plenty of Ruby/Rails jobs out there. But how do you get your first one as an early career dev?...