ninjaofawesome

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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
Although I don't know of any sites that will do this, when I was on the upswing with CSS, I found that making breakable toys was very helpful for me. (For example, I made a very basic site about cat fashion- nothing spectacular design
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
You may want to look into Sass (SCSS). It makes your code reusable and extendable via variables, mixins, loops, if/else statements- its quite robust. Another suggestion, such as SMACSS is BEM (my personal favorite), as it flattens out
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
Perseverance and responsibility. There's been lots of times where I personally didn't want to do something or learn something, but realizing that I was responsible for whatever that was helped me keep doing what I didn't feel
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
Yes, yes and yes! In addition to progressing as a developer, you'll be surprised at how much you'll forget as you move on to other projects and having it written down in a way that you can understand is incredibly valuable. Its b
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
As a front end developer, I would say if you need an MVP to get out the door and you've got a bunch of plates in the air, then yes, Bootstrap (and also Font Awesome!) works just fine for all the things that you don't really care t
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
Living in a tiny apartment with my partner in New York, I love it. The way we see it, we have less stuff to own, clean, (if it didn't come included) heat, etc- and it works out just fine. I personally think that having more stuff and
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
I was a frontend hobbyist a couple of years before I decided to pursue this full time, and for me, I found that a bootcamp for fullstack web development was the way to go to REALLY get up and running. I found that dedicating half my day (o
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
Daily! And I love it!
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
When I first started to blog as a developer, I was paralyzed about what to write as I wanted to make extra sure that my posts were nothing short of life changing. Thus, I didn't do it that much and the posts were incredibly painful
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by ninjaofawesome 9y ago
One full day a week is a great start, we had "refactor fridays" at one of my previous jobs. I'd say for me, its when I can see that I can make something more efficient or spot obvious mistakes or slipshod code. So it could b