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How to surf the web to find motivating and insightful content

  “Wow! This was so cool!” my friend says. “ How do you even find these things ?” I tell him that I got it from the newsletter of <so-and-so> website where people post interesting stuff. And the next question goes, “Well, but how did you find out about the <so-and-so> website?” And then I end up telling him about this person on Twitter whom I follow and how she tweets interesting things and how she is SO cool. “Okay but how did you find out about this person?” … And every time, the conversation comes to an abrupt end either because my friend stops asking further questions at the risk of seeming too dumb (and ends up giving me an unsatisfactory “Oh Wow” reaction) or because I fail to remember the exact source (and end up telling something along the lines of — “I just found it while… hmm… browsing on the Internet”). What I also want to say is that these cool webpages/people that I come across can come to anyone. But that sounds like patronizing. Not helpful. And I want to...

A simple How-To on Webhooks: the intimidation stops now

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  Note: the latest and maintained version of this article is now on  freeCodeCamp’s News site . Webhook. It sounds like what happens when you cross a spider and a pirate. In the world of the internet though, webhooks are something completely different. Webhooks help connect services together. Let me explain. Say we have two hypothetical services. One is a service that generates data, and the other that gathers and organizes that data. The developers of the first service thought, “Man, our platform is only so useful. Let’s give the users the ability to forward real-time data to other services.” The developers of the second service thought. “Gee willikers, it would be great if our users could import data easier.” So, they added webhooks to receive data in real time from a service like the first service. Now as a user, you happen to use both services. You now have the power in your hands to connect them together. The best way to explain it is with a real-world example. Are you re...

Lessons I learned in my first months as a non-traditional software engineer

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  I am about 3 months into my  journey  as a new software engineer. I work at a place where the bar is high for what it means to craft quality software. My peers are well-educated and highly disciplined engineers with many years of experience. Those conditions alone would be enough to cause someone new to wonder things like “Am I good enough to be here?” or “Will I be able to keep up?” To top it off, however, I have the fact that my background in software is non-traditional. My degree is in music and I am self-taught in programming. You can probably imagine the kind of impostor syndrome  that someone in my position might feel when surrounded by people who are so smart and credentialed. The self-doubt could have been paralyzing. But, somehow it didn’t last very long at all. So, how did that happen? How did the doubt give way to the enthusiasm to learn and grow that I mostly feel today? I made a list of 31 experiences that helped me embrace being new and non-tradi...

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