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Started learning Go last month after six years of PHP. Hardest part is not the syntax. It is unlearning the habit of reaching for a framework before understanding the problem.

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Learning in public is terrifying for about two weeks and then it is just normal, and you have a record of how far you have come.

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If you are learning and you feel behind, read this: the people you are comparing yourself to spent years being confused in private. You are doing yours in public, which is harder and faster.

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What I wish someone had told me earlier: you do not need to finish the tutorial. Take the one idea you came for and go build something with it. The rest of the video is for somebody else.

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Kenyan devs, honest question. Do you learn better from docs or from breaking something and fixing it? I have never once finished a tutorial.

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If you are learning to code and you feel stupid, that feeling is the job. It never fully leaves. You just get faster at moving through it.

The people who look confident are the ones who have been confused about more thi...

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Every framework you learn teaches you the framework. Every bug you chase to the bottom teaches you the machine. Chase more bugs.

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Your first language does not matter nearly as much as finishing something in it.

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Spent the morning reading someone else's code. Not to fix it, just to read it.

Highly recommended. You learn more patterns in an hour of reading than a week of writing your own.

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The best hour of my week is the one where I close everything and read code I did not write. No goal, no ticket.