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7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

4 years ago
Anonymous $lslws5nqEj

https://monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/03/absolute-truths-unlearned-as-junior-developer/

Next year, I’ll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code. Ten years! And besides actual employment, for nearly 2⁄3 of my life, I’ve been building things on the web. I can barely remember a time in my life where I didn’t know HTML, which is kind of weird when you think about it. Some kids learn to play an instrument or dance ballet, but instead I was creating magical worlds with code in my childhood bedroom.

In reflecting on this first decade of getting regularly paid money to type weird symbols into my Terminal, I wanted to take some time to share some of the ways my thinking shifted over the years as a developer.