I want to learn to code not to start a new career, but to have those skills and use them to improve my life. I always imagined I could automate certain aspects of my life in a way consumer products cannot.
i'm a dev @ my day job, and i'm also a subversive art enthusiast.
rather soon i hope to be out of a day job and in to some subversive digital art work.
gonna see about getting a good buddy in miami to visit your brunch, i'll ask him to be my honorary intermediary and we can get coordinated with a collab if you're into it.
Not bad, not bad at all. Very holistic overview of the different strategies to take in new knowledge.
One thing for people who are thinking of getting into this space, is that in the last few years - there has been a lot of influx of talent. This means, that the standards are somewhat higher for getting a junior job than they were say… 4/5 years ago. You should expect to polish whatever you display on your portfolio. Half baked REST APIs with primitive front-ends using some basic Tailwind CSS boilerplate with dark mode and some UI cards won’t cut it.
Unless, you make a genuinely interesting project.
My biggest advice would be to focus the bulk of your independent building on what I call a ‘portfolio product’, which has a compelling, genuinely useful use case that gets you excited. When you talk about the project in interviews, you need to get excited about it - it should be a project in a field you genuinely care about, and will light up your face as you talk about it.
If the answer to the question ‘what are you proud of building?’ is… nothing, you might not get a job.
Fun fact, I learned how to integrate my blog with lightning within 10 mins from your post, while I was looking around how to implement with Metamask/ NFT things for a few months and I was not able to find anything simple 😂
I want to learn to code not to start a new career, but to have those skills and use them to improve my life. I always imagined I could automate certain aspects of my life in a way consumer products cannot.
I can code, but learning to do so seems to have destroyed my creative ideation capabilities.
Maybe we should collab.
I happily collaborate with other people. tell me about what you do :)
i'm a dev @ my day job, and i'm also a subversive art enthusiast.
rather soon i hope to be out of a day job and in to some subversive digital art work.
gonna see about getting a good buddy in miami to visit your brunch, i'll ask him to be my honorary intermediary and we can get coordinated with a collab if you're into it.
that sounds great to me. I look forward to meeting your good buddy. I put on brunch every Sunday :)
That is a cool idea! There are parts of this guide that should help with that as well.
I read most of it and did appreciate it
Any courses or resources you guys would recommend for beginning building apps on lightning?
I guess it depends on what you are trying to build, but there are lots of APIs out there to help integrate lightning into your applications.
https://lightningdevkit.org/ might be a good place to start.
How did you go getting a job being self taught? I see most jobs want the bit of paper for the “qualification “
There are actually many jobs that do not require a degree to be qualified, especially in the bitcoin space. A good resource is bitcoinerjobs.com.
I cover ways to make yourself stand out in the guide, like contributing to open source projects for example.
Not bad, not bad at all. Very holistic overview of the different strategies to take in new knowledge.
One thing for people who are thinking of getting into this space, is that in the last few years - there has been a lot of influx of talent. This means, that the standards are somewhat higher for getting a junior job than they were say… 4/5 years ago. You should expect to polish whatever you display on your portfolio. Half baked REST APIs with primitive front-ends using some basic Tailwind CSS boilerplate with dark mode and some UI cards won’t cut it.
Unless, you make a genuinely interesting project.
My biggest advice would be to focus the bulk of your independent building on what I call a ‘portfolio product’, which has a compelling, genuinely useful use case that gets you excited. When you talk about the project in interviews, you need to get excited about it - it should be a project in a field you genuinely care about, and will light up your face as you talk about it.
If the answer to the question ‘what are you proud of building?’ is… nothing, you might not get a job.
Good advice!
I'm starting with NextJS, and it's a headache but it's fun.
Do you have any video to understand more how Nextj.js works?
I don't personally, but a simple search and I bet you will finds tons of videos on it!
Nice read. Quite impressive how short it took for you to learn to code and contribute to so many interesting projects ⚡️
I have been using all the no-code tools for the past few years, and def tempting to get my feet wet to explore more fun.
Thanks! And don't be intimidated by code - you can do it!
Thanks! And looking forward to hearing more blog posts from you 🤓️
Awesome, let me know how it goes! :)
I'm going to try to do 1 blog post a month so stay tuned.. 😃
Fun fact, I learned how to integrate my blog with lightning within 10 mins from your post, while I was looking around how to implement with Metamask/ NFT things for a few months and I was not able to find anything simple 😂
that is so awesome to hear!! what is your blog? I will check it out :)
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Bookmarked thanks!!
No problem. :)
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