Remember the pain...
summary
Title claim: someone teaches themself to code in nine months and urges peers to remember the pain so they’ll help new joiners. Specifics: two Recurse Center rejections before acceptance, a prod outage caused by an infinite loop that takes the site down for one–two hours, learning Chrome DevTools, APIs and deployment lingo, and adopting day‑long co‑programming instead of throwing links over the wall. Concrete takeaways: distinguish “you don’t know it yet” from dumbness and avoid information granading by pairing to fix failures.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 1:25The Journey
- 5:14Nurturing my code baby
- 7:54Emerging into Tech
- 10:00Get in touch with your inner child
- 10:54Embrace the pain
- 13:18We're still children
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