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      <p>This was one of the key takeaways for me from DHH's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cEn_83zRFw">keynote talk from Rails World 2024</a>.</p>

      <p>It's more fun to be competent.</p>

      <p>In this section of the talk, which starts around 32:45, he was speaking about his move from the Cloud to on-prem infrastructure and adopting Linux as his main development environment.</p>

      <p>That people suffer from "server-phobia" when they could learn these skills from themselves.</p>

      <p>As a self-taught Developer, I started to learn coding in 2010 and had to learn everything from scratch - starting with HTML and CSS before introducing PHP.</p>

      <p>Since then, I've learned various other related technologies, including Linux, and exclusively run Linux for my computers and servers.</p>

      <p><a href="/blog/going-full-vim">I switched full-time to Neovim</a> in 2021.</p>

      <p>For the past couple of years, I've been using NixOS as my primary operating system.</p>

      <p>It was another language to learn and a different way to think about server configuration and automation.</p>

      <p>But, I recently went to add something to my configuration and knew exactly how I was going to implement it.
      I was able to do it quickly and easily as I'd invested enough time to be competent and feel confident and that I knew what I was doing.</p>

      <p>I've been writing a new Drupal module this week and have been in a constant flow state as I knew how I need to implement it.</p>

      <p>I've been doing test-driven development and working through a few different iterations, guided by my tests and ensuring I don't break what I've already written.</p>

      <p>These are skills and knowledge that that took time to learn.</p>

      <h2 id="here%27s-the-thing">Here's the thing</h2>

      <p>Whether you're a new Developer getting into programming or an experienced Developer learning something new, you will become competent.</p>

      <p>And it is more fun.</p>

      <p>It just takes time and effort.</p>

              
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      <p>This was one of the key takeaways for me from DHH's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cEn_83zRFw">keynote talk from Rails World 2024</a>.</p>

      <p>It's more fun to be competent.</p>

      <p>In this section of the talk, which starts around 32:45, he was speaking about his move from the Cloud to on-prem infrastructure and adopting Linux as his main development environment.</p>

      <p>That people suffer from "server-phobia" when they could learn these skills from themselves.</p>

      <p>As a self-taught Developer, I started to learn coding in 2010 and had to learn everything from scratch - starting with HTML and CSS before introducing PHP.</p>

      <p>Since then, I've learned various other related technologies, including Linux, and exclusively run Linux for my computers and servers.</p>

      <p><a href="/blog/going-full-vim">I switched full-time to Neovim</a> in 2021.</p>

      <p>For the past couple of years, I've been using NixOS as my primary operating system.</p>

      <p>It was another language to learn and a different way to think about server configuration and automation.</p>

      <p>But, I recently went to add something to my configuration and knew exactly how I was going to implement it.
      I was able to do it quickly and easily as I'd invested enough time to be competent and feel confident and that I knew what I was doing.</p>

      <p>I've been writing a new Drupal module this week and have been in a constant flow state as I knew how I need to implement it.</p>

      <p>I've been doing test-driven development and working through a few different iterations, guided by my tests and ensuring I don't break what I've already written.</p>

      <p>These are skills and knowledge that that took time to learn.</p>

      <h2 id="here%27s-the-thing">Here's the thing</h2>

      <p>Whether you're a new Developer getting into programming or an experienced Developer learning something new, you will become competent.</p>

      <p>And it is more fun.</p>

      <p>It just takes time and effort.</p>

              
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