Reflect

Does the mere thought of explaining your code cause anxiety? Be confident! We should all understand what we’re writing and why. It’s an opportunity (for everyone) to learn!

I just deleted my coworkers code. 😱 It was good code that wasn’t needed anymore, and he understood why. The nature of coding is that it’s a progression, and any individual code is transient by nature. Today’s code is subject to tomorrow’s refactoring.

How do you know when you’ve finally arrived, and are officially a programmer? Is it a set of skills, a certain amount of time? Can you ever really arrive, when it’s a race of one with no finish line?

Need a comic break? Here’s some web comics I’ve stumbled upon over the years - the funny, sarcastic, informative, and just plain weird.

I made my first OSS contributions during HacktoberFest, gaining experience (and swag!) with the help of DigitalOcean and GitHub. :)