778: 11 Habits of Highly Effective Developers

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Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today, Scott and Wes dive into the 11 habits of effective web developers, from understanding stakeholder goals to maintaining a work-life balance. We’ll explore the importance of continuous learning, having a problem-solver mentality, and being empathetic towards coworkers and users—let’s get into it! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Previous Episode: 754. 00:50 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 01:24 Denver weather is something else. 02:15 Habit #1: You understand stakeholder and business goals. 05:34 Habit #2: You’re curious and always learning. 07:43 Habit #3: You have an open mind about new technology. 11:29 Habit #4: You ask for help. 13:43 Habit #5: You help others. 16:51 Chicken drumsticks. 17:35 Habit #6: You have a “problem solver” mentality. 24:44 Hose repair. 26:02 Habit #7: You have fun with what you do. 29:56 Habit #8: You understand work-life balance. 33:18 Habit #9: You are empathetic to your co-workers and users. 37:19 Habit #10: You pay attention to detail. 41:18 Habit #11: You’re part of the community. 45:55 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Scott: Solar Lanterns. Wes: Ninja Obstacle Course. Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on YouTube. 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 Syntax episode 778. This is the 11 habits of highly effective
0:07.0	developers. This is actually a show we did maybe six years ago and it was I was looking through a list of our top shows over the years and
0:16.1	this is actually one we did on YouTube six years ago and it did really well and I thought
0:20.9	you know what the quality of that was not very good but the
0:26.4	content of that was excellent and I'm curious to see if our six years later if our
0:31.8	thoughts are still the same of these things.
0:34.6	So we're going to go through 11 habits of highly effective developers and explain our thoughts
0:39.9	behind each of them and how you can sort of level up your career and become a better developer.
0:45.2	My name is Wes.
0:46.0	I'm a developer from Canada with me as always is Mr. Scott Tolinsky.
0:50.2	We are brought to you by Century.
0:52.4	You're gonna check check it out.
0:53.1	Century.io.
0:54.4	We were just talking on the last recording about
0:56.7	docks that have good context.
0:58.9	One thing Century does is if you got a script tag
1:01.1	and you want to implement it,
1:02.1	you got to often you got to pass your like API key.
1:04.6	Well, the copy paste has your API key in it
1:07.4	and you can click on it
1:08.3	and it will give you a list of all of your different projects
1:11.3	in Century, like I have the syntax one, I have one for my
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