In the spirit of top developers getting honest, let’s share our confessions too!
Here are some confessions of mine:
What are your confessions?
I push code to master ;-D
I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't started making stupid fan sites with geocities as a kid
#1 I've been programming for 15+ years in a various languages, but have acquired zero stickers to show for it.
#2 I consume a steady diet of googled copy pasta which then gets modified and re-purposed to fit my project needs.
I never learned regex. I always have to look them up. I really should sit down and learn the fundamentals, maybe I will next time I need too ;)
It's silly to me because I'm always saying "learn the fundamentals first."
I often sound like I know what I'm doing when, if fact, I'm as lost as the other person.
I haven't learnt how to use a debugger to date. I insert console.log statements to find out what's going on. It has worked pretty well for me, so far. :P
When i was worked on my first project in new company, i don't know any thing about BLE and manager interacted to me directly with the client.he is CEO of a company. and the big task for me is that manager told to client about me that i am a team manager of this team. and reality is that i was selected only fresher based. but it was good experience.
Padre, I have a sin. The technology that I understood a little become less interesting for me than a new, shiny one that I didn't touched yet. Yesterday I spend a half of the day reading about Elixir and playing with his interactive shell instead of doing what I was really supposed to do. 😊
My confessions that I could taught someone but not followed actually.
I'm bad at TDD, and more often than I care to admit I skip writing tests!
Many things, complex thoughts, a simple result... want to go to sell donuts jaja xD
Writing git commit messages consume my time a lot as it is difficult to come up with something, satisfying enough.
I'm googling over and over again for substring(), split(), slice(), splice() and similar, every single time I need them :D
I have two:
I need to care about what I'm doing. I'm sorry but I don't just "code to code" anymore. If I'm not interested in the project, I don't do it. The benefit of this to the client or team is that I am always enthusiastic about what I do... The downside is, I say "no" a lot when it comes to taking on different projects. But this is something I've learned I've had to do more and more this past year.
I honestly prefer VSC over Atom.
I always act as if I know everything about programming but like Kleo Petrov without Google and stackoverflow I can't do shit.
Without Google and SO I will be out of work.
Covenant Chukwudi
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Maximilian Berkmann
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