“Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.” — Indian Proverb

Know that in the world of self-taught developers, many people failed, and only a few succeeded.

And this is the reality, the question would be, which side do you want to end up with?

This is not to discourage you, but to give you an insight into what’s out there.

I’ve been working as a Developer for almost 5 years.

Here’s the truth, it was very hard.

I wasn’t even sure how I made it here; I didn’t even think I’d made it here, all I did…

“Money can’t but happiness, but poverty can’t buy anything.”

“Money can’t buy happiness.”

There are 2 kinds of people who would say this:

First, someone who has a lot of money just so you can stay the way you are, by living paycheck to paycheck, treating yourself to expensive clothes, designer bags, basically spending your hard-earned money so you can keep them rich.

Second, someone who doesn’t have any, those people are actually not talking to you, but rather, they are talking to themselves — convincing themselves that it's okay to be poor, that it's okay to not have any…

“Your entire life can change in a year, make it this one.” — Ann

It took me 6 months of non-stop swinging the bat over and over just to get that first developer job.

I promised myself that I will make it happen, whatever it takes.

But most of the things come with a price, I already know that before I plunged in.

I cast down all my cards. It wasn’t enough.

I know I need to work harder; I was prepared for the sacrifices I need to give up, but even then it took a lot more than I…

“Give ordinary people the right tools and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.” — Neil Gershenfeld

I heard someone said, ‘let’s just install every vscode extensions that we find interesting.’ and I was like — ‘I’ll pray for your machines.”

A year ago when I was still working as a Mobile Developer, trying to save resources from memory to performance, I was really conscious of decluttering every tool I have, not just in VSCode of course.

VScode is a powerful tool, but it can also be a pain in the as* if not handled properly.

Imagine having…

“You can never understand everything. But, you should push yourself to understand the system.” — Ryan Dahl (Creator of Node.js)

So you finally found your first or second job, now it’s time to do the actual job.

If you think that getting the first job is the end-game, you are wrong; I thought about that too. Then I realized it was only just the beginning of the bigger world.

You did everything you can during your interview; you gave everything you’ve got during the exam/test, and finally, all your hard work has paid off.

Finally, you can rest, chill and…

“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” — Mandy Hale

The self-taught developer journey has never been this popular years ago. As technology progress, more and more are curious and dreamt of joining on board.

There has been a massive increase in mentoring, several websites have aroused offering services like boot camps and guides to everyone who wanted to be part of these elite-looking nerds while some are dreaming to start their own startup one day.

Whatever end-goal you have in mind, this article will focus on…

“First you LEARN, then you remove the ‘L’ ”

Code like it’s your pride

like it’s your blood and tears, express yourself by the way you work, and the way you code.

It is your identity, make it good.

If you want to impress and show off your skills, then slowly but surely improve the way you write and structure your codes.

It doesn’t have to be right now, it will build eventually, through trial and error you will create your own style, a way that works right for you, the way it fits on you.

In time, you will develop it, something unique, something…

“Don’t stop when you are tired, stop when you’re done.”

Let’s focus on one thing that will make everything else unnecessary.

Just like Warren Buffett’s bullet-proof strategy, focusing only on the things that matter will eventually make everything else unnecessary.

So the real deal is to finally able to see and decide which are the most important thing, write it down into our list, no matter how big or small the goals are, after our thorough analysis and thinking, that list will be our only list, and everything should be cut.

Decluttering not just in our physical world, but inside…