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This was one of the key takeaways for me from DHH's keynote talk from Rails World 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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

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>\n\n

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

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>\n\n

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

I switched full-time to Neovim<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n\n

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

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

But, I recently went to add something to my configuration and knew exactly how I was going to implement it.\nI 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>\n\n

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>\n\n

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>\n\n

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

Here's the thing<\/h2>\n\n

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

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

It just takes time and effort.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

This was one of the key takeaways for me from DHH's keynote talk from Rails World 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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

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>\n\n

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

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>\n\n

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

I switched full-time to Neovim<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n\n

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

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

But, I recently went to add something to my configuration and knew exactly how I was going to implement it.\nI 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>\n\n

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>\n\n

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>\n\n

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

Here's the thing<\/h2>\n\n

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

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

It just takes time and effort.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ] }