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How to surf the web to find motivating and insightful content

  “Wow! This was so cool!” my friend says. “ How do you even find these things ?” I tell him that I got it from the newsletter of <so-and-so> website where people post interesting stuff. And the next question goes, “Well, but how did you find out about the <so-and-so> website?” And then I end up telling him about this person on Twitter whom I follow and how she tweets interesting things and how she is SO cool. “Okay but how did you find out about this person?” … And every time, the conversation comes to an abrupt end either because my friend stops asking further questions at the risk of seeming too dumb (and ends up giving me an unsatisfactory “Oh Wow” reaction) or because I fail to remember the exact source (and end up telling something along the lines of — “I just found it while… hmm… browsing on the Internet”). What I also want to say is that these cool webpages/people that I come across can come to anyone. But that sounds like patronizing. Not helpful. And I want to...

How to ignore files from your npm package

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Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash You can decide what files people get when they download your npm package in three ways: With the .gitignore file With the .npmignore file With the files property We’ll look at each method and discuss which methods you should (or shouldn’t) be using. Excluding files with gitignore First, npm will check your repository for a .gitignore file. If there is a .gitignore file, npm will ignore files according to what’s listed in the .gitignore file. This is the most common way package authors prevent people from downloading extra files. Let’s go through a simple example. Say you have the following directory structure. - project-name/    |- index.js    |- package.json    |- node_modules/ Let’s say you don’t want people to download the node_modules folder. You also don’t want to save the node_modules in the Git repository. What you’ll do is create a .gitignore file. # .gitignore  node_modules In this case, both Git and...

Lessons I learned in my first months as a non-traditional software engineer

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  I am about 3 months into my  journey  as a new software engineer. I work at a place where the bar is high for what it means to craft quality software. My peers are well-educated and highly disciplined engineers with many years of experience. Those conditions alone would be enough to cause someone new to wonder things like “Am I good enough to be here?” or “Will I be able to keep up?” To top it off, however, I have the fact that my background in software is non-traditional. My degree is in music and I am self-taught in programming. You can probably imagine the kind of impostor syndrome  that someone in my position might feel when surrounded by people who are so smart and credentialed. The self-doubt could have been paralyzing. But, somehow it didn’t last very long at all. So, how did that happen? How did the doubt give way to the enthusiasm to learn and grow that I mostly feel today? I made a list of 31 experiences that helped me embrace being new and non-tradi...

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