James M Snell - System Engineer @ CloudFlare
Junior to Senior with David Guttman
English - September 13, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBTechnology Business Careers technology javascript programming web development career Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Talking Points:
Building tools developers use
Learning a new codebase
The viability of open source careers
What makes a good team member
Avoiding burn out
Quotable Quotes:
“Every line of code you change is going to have an impact somewhere and it's going to impact someone.” - JS
“The amount of knowledge you have...will never define you, it's how you apply it, it’s how you recover from mistakes.” - JS
“[How to learn faster] Figuring out what you don't know and knowing how to quickly identify the gaps in your own knowledge.” - JS
“I don't mind helping...but I also want to see you putting in the effort yourself to figure it out.” - JS
“[Learning new code bases] I fiddle and break things, and then figure out what broke.” - JS
“If you're just spending all your time looking at code and thinking about code, you will burn out very quickly.” - JS
“The people that I enjoy working with the most take a very humble approach to the code they write.” - JS
Notes:
James’s Twitter
James’s Github