Hasty Treat - Non-Glamorous Skills You Should Have

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the non-glamorous skills that will improve your life as a developer!

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Show Notes

3:13 - Why it’s needed

Make you a better dev
Make big tasks easier

7:00 - Why we don’t do it

Because it’s hard
It’s boring - sometimes
It’s not our focus

7:24 - Good command line skills

Get around file system
Copy, move, delete things

8:58 - Keyboard skills

Jump by word/line/BOL/EOL
Learn 1 new shortcut per week
Custom keybindings for common tasks

14:22 - Communication and interpersonal skills

Check out Syntax 125: Hasty Treat - Communication Skillz

14:41 - Time management

Focus apps to help
How long will something take?
Revisit past projects when they are done and see how long it took

16:36 - Good file hygiene

Good folder structure
Delete old cruft
Clear your recycle
Desktop and downloads are off-limits
Create template structures or tools for commonly used structures

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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday,
0:02.0	Open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face
0:06.0	with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,
0:09.0	get workflows,
0:10.0	break dancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is
0:18.1	Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toro Loco Tolinsky.
0:25.0	Welcome to Syntax on this Monday hasty treat.
0:30.0	We're going to be talking all about some of those non glamorous skills that will improve your life as a developer.
0:36.8	I'm talking to some nitty gritty things that are going to really just make your life a little bit easier.
0:42.4	We're going to be talking about the
0:43.5	why's the what's and maybe some of these skills that are good to focus on for a
0:47.9	little bit whenever you get some free or downtime. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado with
0:54.8	level-up tutorials and with me as always is US Boss.
0:59.6	Hey everybody I'm excited to talk about this. I'm big like maybe we should get some give some context really quickly is things like time management and command line interface and folder structure I have a whole thing
1:13.6	called file hygiene here and these are things that get in your way when you're trying to code and if you can
1:17.0	continually get better at them it's good for your career in life.
1:21.6	Yeah it's good for all of those things and this episode is also
1:26.2	sponsored by a company that's good for a lot of things in your life and that is
1:30.1	a prismic at prismic at prismic dot i.o check them out at prismic dot io slash syntax and you're
1:36.2	going to be greeted with a really neat little landing page where you get
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