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Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

Vanilla JavaScript Quick Reference / Cheatsheet

Just migrated it from Codepen.io to markdown. Credit goes to David Conner.

Working with DOM	Working with JS	Working With Functions
Accessing Dom Elements	Add/Remove Array Item	Add Default Arguments to Function
Grab Children/Parent Node(s)	Add/Remove Object Properties	Throttle/Debounce Functions
Create DOM Elements	Conditionals

How to add an image to a gist

Create or find a gist that you own.

Clone your gist (replace <hash> with your gist's hash):

# with ssh
git clone [email protected]:<hash>.git mygist

# with https

git clone https://gist.github.com/.git mygist

The Go language for experienced programmers

Why use Go?

Like C, but with garbage collection, memory safety, and special mechanisms for concurrency
Pointers but no pointer arithmetic
No header files
Simple, clean syntax
Very fast native compilation (about as quick to edit code and restart as a dynamic language)
Easy-to-distribute executables

### Installing global Python & Pip Use Brew brew install python

That'll install both Python, PIP and setuptools. If for some reason it didn't install PIP you can do via

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py

c/f MacOSX setup gitbook

Advanced JavaScript Learning Resources

This is a list of advanced JavaScript learning resources from people who responded to this [Tweet][13] and this [Tweet][20].

[You Don't Know JS][3]
[Frontend Masters courses by Kyle Simpson][12]
[@mpjme][6]'s [YouTube videos][5]

Aimee Knight is a Software Architect and former professional figure skater currently residing in Nashville TN. Outside of work, she's a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies specializing in performance, a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast, and an international keynote speaker. Currently, she specializes in DevOps, JavaScript, React, and CSS however, she's worked extensively in Angular, Node, and Ruby on Rails. Her past involvement includes working at npm, Inc., being a weekly panelist on the Angular Air podcast, a co-organizer for CharmCityJS, and a mentor for Baltimore NodeSchool and Rails Bridge.

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	node: Platform built on V8 to build network applications
	git: Distributed revision control system
	wget: Internet file retriever
	yarn: JavaScript package manager
	python3: Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
	coreutils: GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
	pkg-config: Manage compile and link flags for libraries
	chromedriver: Tool for automated testing of webapps across many browsers
	awscli: Official Amazon AWS command-line interface
	automake: Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles