As your career progresses, you’ll discover an increasing number of opportunities for mentoring others, and being an effective mentor will become increasingly important.
This blog post covers 5 things that you need to consider before becoming a mentor, along with some tips on how to select a mentee, and some pitfalls to watch out for.
A collection of 5 things from the week that I found interesting, am enjoying, or am working on.
This week:
I’m not sure why it’s taken so long, but after 13 years of Webstock existing, this year was the first time that I attended.
While I haven’t attended Webstock until now, I have watched many of the recordings which are usually available a few months after each event was held, and it’s been interesting to see how the event, and the industry in general has changed over the years.
None of this year’s talks were technical, and all were about the human side of the industry - topics such as ethics, personal experiences, psychology, communication, and team health.
One of the original organisers stood up on stage at the end of the event, and said it best:
13 years ago we were rallying against nested HTML tables
Does the font in Chrome look really grainy in Windows when using RDP, even though fonts in all other apps look fine?
When you really want your fonts to be nice and clear like this:
There are a couple of ways that this can be fixed.
Currently there’s a bug in recent versions of create-react-app where debug breakpoints aren’t working in Chrome.
A collection of 5 things from the week that I found interesting, am enjoying, or am working on.
This week:
Using Git on Windows is way easier once you find a combination of tools that you’re comfortable with.
In this blog post you’ll learn about:
Impromptu speaking in front of an audience is challenging for most of us. Even the famous author and public speaker, Mark Twain, has been quoted as saying “I never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.”
If you struggle with scattered thoughts, or mind blank when impromptu speaking, then this blog post will help you.
In this blog post, you’ll learn some techniques to structure your speech when you’re on the spot, and some ways to quickly generate ideas when your mind goes blank.
In this blog post, you’ll learn how to host a sample Python web app on Elastic Beanstalk, using HTTPS, without a load balancer.
After following the steps in this blog post, you should end up with something that looks like the following image:
A collection of 5 things from the week that I found interesting, am enjoying, or am working on.
This week: