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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

New Year, New You. What to Focus on in 2022.

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

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

0:06.6

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.5

Here is Scott Zelensky and Wes Boss.

0:11.4

Welcome to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:16.9

Today we've got one full of treats for you.

0:19.7

We're going to talk about what you should focus on in 2022 and we sort of have a bit

0:25.2

of a structure for this one.

0:27.7

We are going to go through beginner, intermediate and advanced developers and then Scott and

0:34.2

I will both, for each category, Scott and I will pick what should you focus on for

0:38.4

coding, what should you focus on for soft skills.

0:41.5

And then we have something we're calling random, fun, mixed bag, anything goes skill or

0:47.1

goal.

0:48.1

We couldn't figure out what that would be called.

0:50.6

But just love how we thought about that for a little while and then that's what we

0:54.2

came up with.

0:55.2

That's as good as it gets.

0:57.9

The mixed bag, skill or goal, I guess we can call that.

1:01.3

We are sponsored by three awesome companies today.

1:04.2

Century does your air exception of performance tracking, Lynn node, cloud hosting and computing

1:09.4

and fresh books, cloud accounting.

1:11.6

We'll talk about all of them partway through the episode.

1:13.6

How are you doing today, Scott?

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