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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Keeping Up with the Codeashians. Dealing with our fast paced industry.

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes talk about how to deal with being overwhelmed with our fast paced industry. How do you keep you and your team's skills up to date?

Wes' Note: Scott came up with the title for this one. I know.

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Show Notes

1:00

4:00

  • That feeling
  • Being okay with not knowing everything

9:00

  • How to wait it out
  • When you should jump into a library
  • 1.0 of libraries
  • Dogfooding

13:00

  • Just In Time learning
  • Doubling down on the fundamentals

21:00

  • What is JAM Stack?

22:00

  • Why do you need to stay up to date?
  • Moving or Losing Jobs
  • Comfy Chairs

25:00

  • Hipster Web Developers

27:00

  • Someone think of the customers!
  • Technical Debt
  • Falling in love with web development again
  • Constantly challenging yourself

30:00

  • Complacency in Web Devleopment
  • Motivating Comfortable Web Developers
  • You have to stay up to date

32:00

  • Working on the weekends
  • Real Talk: part of your job is staying up to date
  • How to find time to learn on the clock

36:00

  • Adding new tech to projects as a way to learn

39:00

  • What if your senior developer is holding back progress?
  • How to convince your team or boss that you aren't just a hipster and this new tech is worth it
  • Show them the why!

47:00

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

Welcome to Syntax. Thanks. Sorry. I'm going to try that again. That was dumb.

0:15.0

Keep that and maybe.

0:18.0

Welcome to Syntax. Thanks so much for tuning into another episode.

0:22.0

Today we're going to be talking all about this

0:24.4

topic that I've actually wanted to talk about a long time in it because I get a lot of

0:27.2

emails about this and it's not something we talk about in public all that much

0:30.4

but it's sort of the sense of impeding doom or the sense of being overwhelmed

0:36.4

with how fast our industry is changing.

0:39.4

And it's such an interesting industry to be in because you can get a really good job in it but it also it just moves so quickly that I think a lot of people are sort of feeling like they just can't catch their breath with what the tech is and it's sort of scary when your job and your income depends on this sort of moving target.

0:56.8

So we're going to talk about like how do you keep up and how do you deal with this fast-paced industry that we have.

1:01.8

So today we're sponsored by two awesome companies. with this fast-paced industry that we have.

1:02.9

So today we're sponsored by two awesome companies,

1:05.4

Fresh Books and NetLify.

1:07.2

Fresh Books does cloud accounting,

1:08.9

and NetLify does some fantastic hosting

1:12.2

for your website. We'll talk a little bit more about them part

1:14.7

way through the show. With me as always is Scott Tolinsky. How you doing today, Scott?

1:19.1

Hey, I'm doing super good as usual to get some sunny sunny weather here in Denver.

1:25.7

We did a couple of park walks with no coats on and we're like living it up in the 60s

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