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Oh my! Zsh. (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Job of a Softer Engineer Is to Take Care of What's There

"I just want to remind people there's this interesting thing in our phenomena, where most people are excited to work on new things early in their career," he says. "You graduate from a boot camp or go to coating school, your first job is probably not going to be working out a brand new application." He advises against pushing back on the big reed rite of refractoring code and rebuilding the whole thing from scratches. 'If you can't figure out how to get good at refractoring your code, rebuilding the wholething from scratches might sound nice'

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