Hasty Treat - Non-Glamorous Skills You Should Have

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the non-glamorous skills that will improve your life as a developer! Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Show Notes 3:13 - Why it’s needed Make you a better dev Make big tasks easier 7:00 - Why we don’t do it Because it’s hard It’s boring - sometimes It’s not our focus 7:24 - Good command line skills Get around file system Copy, move, delete things 8:58 - Keyboard skills Jump by word/line/BOL/EOL Learn 1 new shortcut per week Custom keybindings for common tasks 14:22 - Communication and interpersonal skills Check out Syntax 125: Hasty Treat - Communication Skillz 14:41 - Time management Focus apps to help How long will something take? Revisit past projects when they are done and see how long it took 16:36 - Good file hygiene Good folder structure Delete old cruft Clear your recycle Desktop and downloads are off-limits Create template structures or tools for commonly used structures Links Wes’ Command Line Power User Course Synology VSCode React PropTypes Generate Syntax 125: Hasty Treat - Communication Skillz CleanMyMac DaisyDisk Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets