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I feel POWERFUL
I’ve been a hobby dev for about 6 years, I’ve always considered myself to be fairly “dumb”. I found reading documentation very difficult, and found it very hard to understand coding in general. But I had a massive passionate fire raging inside of me, I wanted to be better. I loved it, the rush I get when I complete a task, or get a script to work I’ve been working on for weeks is like nothing else!
For the first 4 years I stuck to the basics, HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript - vanilla of course. With a sprinkle of Jquery here and there. I then dabbled in some Symfony and Laravel, but found this very difficult. The general syntax and patterns didn’t click in my brain.
Now, I come to learn React (NextJS). It’s like my brain exploded. Every little thing I learned from all of these struggles, all the weird hacks I thought of, all the PHP patterns and uses all smashed together. I had an awakening. I felt like I knew so much, all was so apparent. Although I thought I was lagging behind, still using the vanilla stuff while everyone was using these fancy frameworks that scared the shit out of me. I wasn’t, I was just taking a different route. It might have been a bit slower but now I feel like I have a deep intrinsic understanding - I feel POWERFUL!
I don’t really know what the point of this post is, I just thought it might encourage others who are feeling the way I was. Keep pushing, you can feel powerful too!
I’ve been a hobby dev for about 6 years, I’ve always considered myself to be fairly “dumb”. I found reading documentation very difficult, and found it very hard to understand coding in general. But I had a massive passionate fire raging inside of me, I wanted to be better. I loved it, the rush I get when I complete a task, or get a script to work I’ve been working on for weeks is like nothing else!
For the first 4 years I stuck to the basics, HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript - vanilla of course. With a sprinkle of Jquery here and there. I then dabbled in some Symfony and Laravel, but found this very difficult. The general syntax and patterns didn’t click in my brain.
Now, I come to learn React (NextJS). It’s like my brain exploded. Every little thing I learned from all of these struggles, all the weird hacks I thought of, all the PHP patterns and uses all smashed together. I had an awakening. I felt like I knew so much, all was so apparent. Although I thought I was lagging behind, still using the vanilla stuff while everyone was using these fancy frameworks that scared the shit out of me. I wasn’t, I was just taking a different route. It might have been a bit slower but now I feel like I have a deep intrinsic understanding - I feel POWERFUL!
I don’t really know what the point of this post is, I just thought it might encourage others who are feeling the way I was. Keep pushing, you can feel powerful too!
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