gimenete

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He sido freelance, emprendedor y trabajo desde hace años para empresas USA de diversos tamaños en remoto como programador fullstack. Ahora en GitHub. Si puedo ayudar a alguien en orientar su carrera, mis DMs están abiertos. Ask me anything.

he recibido muchos mensajes y escribo aquí algunos de los consejos que he dado en resumen. Nota: algunas cosas son concretas de trabajar en España. Si vas a trabajar desde Sudamérica sólo una nota: tienes la ventaja de la zona horaria para trabajar con EEUU.

Inglés

Tener un buen nivel de inglés es fundamental para poder trabajar con clientes extranjeros. El conocimiento del idioma tiene que mantenerse en el tiempo. Es como mantenerse en forma física; si lo dejas, lo pierdes. Personalmente aunque trabajo 100% en inglés desde hace bastantes años, intento crearme un entorno diario con el idioma para no perderlo:

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[WINDOWS] How to enable auto-signing Git commits with GnuPG for programs that don't support it natively

This is a step-by-step guide on how to enable auto-signing Git commits with GPG for every applications that don't support it natively (eg. GitHub Desktop, Eclipse, Git Tower, ...)

Requirements

• Install GPG4Win: this software is a bundle with latest version of GnuPG v2, Kleopatra v3 certificate manager, GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA) v0.9 which is a GUI that uses GTK+, GpgOL and GpgEX that are respectively an extension for MS Outlook and an extension for Windows Explorer shell
• Install Git for Windows: so you can have a *nix based shell, this software is a bundle with latest version of Git which use MINGW environment, a Git bash shell, a Git GUI and an extension for Windows Explorer shell (Make sure your local version of Git is at least 2.0, otherwise Git don't have support for automatically sign your commits)
• Verify

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Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

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General rules

1. Follow standard conventions.
2. Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
3. Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
4. Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

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Setup SSH Authentication for Git Bash on Windows

Prepararation

0. Create a folder at the root of your user home folder (Example: C:/Users/uname/) called .ssh.
1. Create the following files if they do not already exist (paths begin from the root of your user home folder):

• .ssh/config