Everything you need to become a rock star developer in 50 short sentences

1. Small habits compound
2. Take responsibility
3. Write more prose
4. Write more code
5. Keep the big picture in mind
6. Stop blaming others
7. No small improvement is too small
8. The best code is the one nobody wrote
9. Who you are is more important than who you were

10. No small improvement is too small
11. Be generous with your time
12. Contribute to Open Source
13. Test your damn code
14. Communication is half the solution
15. Ship more frequently
16. Reuse when possible
17. Document your code
18. If you don’t test, it doesn’t work

19. Don’t code alone
20. Plan for when it doesn’t work
21. There aren’t stupid questions
22. Design for concurrency
23. Complex frameworks do not lead to better code
24. Refactor as early and often as possible
25. Not all technical debt is equal
26. Delight your users

28. Embrace change
29. Never stop trying
30. Safe is hardly the right choice
31. Make sure you are solving the right problem
32. There are different ways to make it
33. Trust your gut
34. Stay healthy
35. Don’t repeat yourself
36. Good code is non-negotiable

37. Do less, but better
38. Always be selling
39. Everything is a trade-off
40. Learn to say no
41. You are nothing without a plan
42. Make a habit out of learning
43. Focus on one thing at a time
44. Make more money
45. Ideas are worth shit
46. Be solution-oriented

47. Focus on results
48. Impostor Syndrome is in your head
50. You never know enough
51. You can make a difference

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