256 Tips for Junior Devs
Short, practical tips for junior developers — released one at a time, each with an accompanying YouTube Short.
- Tip 36 Triage Incoming Opportunities (Don't Try to Catch Them All)
- Tip 100 Find Your Music
- Tip 164 Try GitHub Alternatives
- Tip 196 Learn Management Skills
- Tip 68 Grab Your Laptop and Go Somewhere New
- Tip 132 Prioritize Technical Breadth over Depth
- Tip 4 Sign Up for GitHub Student Developer Pack
- Tip 248 What If You Hate LeetCode?
- Tip 120 Don't Let AI Write Your Emails
- Tip 184 Use a Whiteboard
- Tip 56 Your Old Computer Is Enough. Install Linux
- Tip 216 Find Your Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal
- Tip 88 Choose the Best Language for the Task
- Tip 152 Find Your Most Productive Time
- Tip 24 Try Working with a Legacy Codebase
- Tip 232 See Where Procrastination Leads You
- Tip 104 Read The Pragmatic Programmer
- Tip 168 Do a Hackathon
- Tip 40 Deploy Your Project Three Ways
- Tip 200 Think About Yourself in 1, 2, 5, 10, and 50 Years
- Tip 72 Try an Esoteric Programming Language
- Tip 136 Join Toastmasters
- Tip 8 Your GitHub Profile Is Your Resume
- Tip 240 Learn in Your "+1" Zone (not "+100", not "+0")
- Tip 112 English is not Your First Language? Embrace It
- Tip 176 Build Software to Solve Your Own Problems
- Tip 48 Become Antifragile
- Tip 208 Disagree with Your Boss
- Tip 80 Don't Hide Your Waiter Job
- Tip 144 Apply the 80/20 Rule to Your Tech Stack
- Tip 16 Don't Let the Average Redditor Think for You
- Tip 224 Play!
- Tip 96 Find Algorithms and Data Structures in Everyday Things
- Tip 160 Don't Ignore Office Hours
- Tip 32 Spend a Day with Keyboard ONLY
- Tip 192 Don't build alone
- Tip 64 LeetCode is supposed to be fun!
- Tip 128 Buy Junk from Facebook Marketplace
- Tip 0 Find a Mentor, Be a Mentor