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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

754: How to Level Up Your Web Development Career

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ready to level up your career in web development? Join Wes and Scott as they discuss techniques and best practices for advancing in the field. From mastering technical skills to navigating workplace dynamics, this episode offers actionable advice to help you thrive in your career. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:17 How can a front-end developer advance in their career? 01:10 Brought to you by Sentry. 01:30 Syntax newsletter. Snack Pack 02:02 How do you get better at being a developer? 02:22 Asking questions. 08:09 Get your hands dirty. Hot Tips, Cool Treats 14:07 Share what you know. 17:35 Target your skills for what is needed. Ryan Carniato Tweet Episode 577 Justin Fagnani Tweet Episode 595 21:12 Get out of your comfort zone. 26:55 Getting a better job. 27:27 Understand the stakeholders. 29:18 Find the metric the business cares about and do that. 30:01 Make an impression as being the person that gets things done fast and reliably. 31:47 Improve communications. 35:04 Be the person they want to have in meetings. 37:44 Use systems and tools to help your deficiencies. 39:01 Dress to impress. 39:32 Care. 39:40 Cut the cynicism. Energy Vampire 42:16 Don’t put bad stuff out into the world publicly. 44:29 Get your camera + mic dialed in. 46:23 Leveling up at life. 46:32 Take care of your shit. 47:40 Exercise. Episode 748 47:57 Eat well. 48:22 Sleep as much as you can. 48:26 Clean your workspace. 49:17 Learn new skills. 49:31 Take care of yourself. Habit Path 54:09 Sick Picks. Sick Picks Scott: Zeiss Lens Care Pack Wes: Woosh Screen Cleaner Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 754 of syntax, a podcast for web developers.

0:07.0

We've got a really good episode for you today on how to level up your web development

0:11.0

career. Scott got a really good question and we're not going to

0:14.0

dive into all of that. You want to explain what it's all about Scott? Yeah, yeah we had a

0:18.6

question come in in our inbox and it was can you make a video with some tips on how a front end

0:25.3

developer can become a front end lead or get a better position in their

0:29.7

career. So that kind of spawned this idea of how do you level up your web developer career, right?

0:36.0

You want to get better at being a dev, you want to get a better job, you want to move into a higher level in life or in your career in general. So we have three different

0:46.2

sections in this episode. It's how to get getting better at being a dev, getting a better job,

0:52.4

and then getting better at life. There's a big topic here, but it's honestly we're just

0:58.0

going to hit some you know 80-20 kind of stuff there but we're going to try to

1:01.9

fill this with personal examples from our own career, how they helped us, things that work, things that didn't work, and just in general, the types of things that you can do to get better. Now if you want your code to get better, you can do a couple of things. You can sign up for

1:14.8

sentry at sentry. I.O. slash syntax and it's going to give you errors. It's going

1:20.3

to give you performance tips. It's going to allow you to have access to metrics in your application.

1:25.1

Honestly, too many helpful handy things to really discuss in one little sentence.

1:29.8

You can also sign up for the syntax newsletter,

1:33.4

which is the snack pack.

1:35.1

That's what we call it.

1:35.9

It's a fun little name.

1:37.1

We like to have fun around here, so we call our newsletter

1:39.0

the snack pack.

1:40.3

You can sign up for the snack pack

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