thatcodingdude

Job-wise I'd love to find something more technical and less business/project oriented. I find myself not really caring about the end product but I love focusing on how things work.

I've often been the only one enjoying debugging since it's more of a brain teaser than a business/product focus. Also the build/deploy part of dev interests me a lot.

Also gotta get to a scratch golf handicap, but that's outside scope.

I love them and went through https://regexcrossword.com/ for fun, they're great tools.

I have no idea how they work under the hood though !

It's actually recommended in the teach yourself cs curriculum, so I'll get around to reading it !

I'm far from being good enough to contribute to open-source projects unfortunately. I can make lots of things work but I don't know enough advanced patterns and low-level stuff to contribute in a meaningful and maintainable way.

That's always a good answer, but I'm not sure how one would go about 'learning' soft skills. Perhaps simply focusing on them is enough to improve.

Neat, thanks for the advice. Pentesting got a spot on mr. learning list's wild ride.

C it is then. Thanks for your input.

Yeah, found out about https://teachyourselfcs.com/ which seems decent enough, it's about time to learn this stuff.

SQL made the cut on my learning list !

Were you able to get a job or freelance gigs in the gaming field ?

Good point. I'm relying on ORMs too much.

Build / Deploy / Scaling is the most interesting part of my job right now, so it makes sense to focus on this part. Thanks !

C or C++ ? Thought about it, at the very least it would make me a bit more well-rounded.

This and the servers/linux stuff is the most interesting part of my job. I do have my doubts about being able to get into it since I suppose you really have to master low level dev (which I don't) and I don't think I can get a job as self-taught in this field.

What kind of projects are you taking on with Rust ?

That's a good idea. It'd probably be great for me to start a non web-app side-project.

That's probably the most interesting part of my job ! Making some small scripts, managing the build step, servers etc.

Although I'm not sure you can get this kind of job as a self-taught dev with no degree/certifications.

This, so much. I am not needed in cities and should do my part by never setting a foot there again. Just send me specs and I'll code them from home. I'll only leave once a week for groceries.

Back-end being exciting and interesting might make it a tad easier since you can focus on it. When doing front-end I have to fight myself from browsing the web instead of implementing another CRUD while being asked to somehow make it pop while having no specs.