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It's fun to be competent

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+title: It's fun to be competent
+date: 2025-01-07
+permalink: daily/2025/01/07/competent
+tags:
+  - software-development
+cta: sponsor
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+  One of the key points from DHH's keynote from Rails World is that it's fun to be competent.
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+This was one of the key takeaways for me from DHH's [keynote talk from Rails World 2024][0].
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+It's more fun to be competent.
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+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.
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+That people suffer from "server-phobia" when they could learn these skills from themselves.
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+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.
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+Since then, I've learned various other related technologies, including Linux, and exclusively run Linux for my computers and servers.
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+[I switched full-time to Neovim][1] in 2021.
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+For the past couple of years, I've been using NixOS as my primary operating system.
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+It was another language to learn and a different way to think about server configuration and automation.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+These are skills and knowledge that that took time to learn.
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+## Here's the thing
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+Whether you're a new Developer getting into programming or an experienced Developer learning something new, you will become competent.
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+And it is more fun.
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+It just takes time and effort.
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+[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cEn_83zRFw
+[1]: {{site.url}}/blog/going-full-vim