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What do you plan to do next to advance your skills and understanding of software making? How important was being in the spotlight to motivate you to go down this path?

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I've been working a website called YumHacker since I've finished the 180 project. It's a restaurant discovery app using Rails as an API on the back end and Backbone.js on the front end. I learned a lot with the 180 websites project and working on a full scale app has been really great for taking my skills to the next level.

Making myself publicly accountable was definitely a great motivator but my biggest take away was getting over the fear of being wrong/judged.

I really appreciate you open-sourcing it - I spent some time trying to figure out how to best integrate RoR and Backbone when I was learning the latter, and having your source code to poke around at was really helpful.

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