When you first start learning to code, you’ll very quickly run up against this particular experience: you think you’ve set up everything the way you’re supposed to, you’ve checked and re-checked it, and it still. doesn’t. work.

Abig difference between new coders and experienced coders is fa...

You need to internalize this: your ability to get good at coding has nothing to do with how well you fit into the various geek subcultures. This goes double if you know deep down that you’ll never quite fit. The energy you spend proving ...

“Coding” means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and it looks different now from how it used to.

And, funnily enough, the tools and packages and frameworks that make it faster and easier for newcomers or even trained developers to build things are mos...

There are almost always many different approaches to a particular problem, with no single “right way.” A lot of programmers get very good at advocating for their preferred way, but that doesn’t mean it’s the One True Path. 

Going head-to-head with people telling me I was Wr...