Welcome to the Codinoby Podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about how fun and development has changed over the past 20 years

and how to keep on learning new skills with Chris Fell via senior software engineer

at Envision and back-end lead at coding coach. This whole process of building software is now more

complex than before. As I said before, it was just a file and that's it. Now we need to do all these

things. Chris Fell talks about how he navigated his English language barrier, learning to code 20 years ago,

how putting himself out there through blogs and remote and on-site teaching led to the most opportunities,

and how he ended up diving into being a backend lead,

even with his primary experience being a front-end developer.

After this.

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It was when I was in high school, one of my friends approached me and he basically said,

you know, there's this thing where you can build your own website and your own pages.

And at the time, I was like, wow, that's amazing.

And then I started searching like, how can I build a website?

It was a bit challenging because at the time I didn't speak in English at all. So finding

information in Spanish, it was a bit difficult and challenging. But at the end of the day, I figured

it out how to, you know, code in HTML. And at the time, we didn't have CSS. We had to put all the

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