I've been building projects for about three years, mostly for learning. I'm seeing many developers on Twitter and YouTube building in public sharing their progress, writing threads about what they're learning, posting videos of their coding sessions. It seems like a good way to build an audience, get feedback, and hold myself accountable. I'm trying it for a few weeks: tweeting about what I'm learning, sharing project updates, writing about my progress. But I'm finding it exhausting and distracting. I'm spending more time thinking about what to post than actually building and learning. I also feel pressure to make everything 'shareable' instead of just focusing on learning deeply.
Aug 2023
Prioritizing Fundamentals Over Framework Chasing
By mid-2023, I've been learning web development for over two years. I'm noticing a pattern: every few months, a new framework or tool becomes popular, and I feel pressure to learn it immediately. I've learned React, then heard Vue is better, then Svelte is the future, then Solid is faster. I'm constantly jumping between frameworks without mastering any of them. I also notice that when I encounter problems, I often don't understand the underlying concepts I just know how to use a specific framework's API. I'm realizing I'm building on shaky foundations.
What People Say
"He tenido la oportunidad de trabajar con Andrés en el desarrollo de un sistema de asistencia. Destaco su capacidad técnica, su organización y enfoque."
Problems I Enjoy Solving
How to scale systems without scaling complexity · When to choose
consistency over availability · Making legacy codebases maintainable ·
Designing APIs that last · Building teams that ship · Turning technical
debt into technical investment · Documenting decisions so future-you
understands past-you
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