Always Be Improving: Curating developer experiences

I recently saw a project on Github which was a collection of short interviews where people shared how to become a better developer. I really enjoyed reading through advice that developers had to share.

I also noticed there weren’t any female responses.

So going into 2017, I thought it’d be useful to run a similar project with my network! I know there are awesome women who have great advice to share with the world about improving yourself technically and wanted to provide a platform for that advice. 😊

If you’re interested in contributing your thoughts on how to become a better developer, let me know — ideally, I’d like to feature a range of experiences from newbie to seasoned developers.

Topics that I think would be useful to center the project around:

What’s something you do to become a better developer? Are there daily / weekly / regular habits you have (e.g. watching an egghead series each week)?

Sub-topic: what are resources you find helpful to keep your skills sharp?

What’s a soft skill you think is important to become better at what you do?

Do you do something outside of work that you think makes you better at your day job?

What’s a piece of career advice you wish you could give your younger self?

If you could take a few days off and learn one new technology, what would it be?

I’d love to curate responses by early January to provide some inspiration going into 2017 🚀 . Hopefully I’ll be able to add to it over time so that it’s a living document, too (I’ll probably keep the interviews in a Github repo, just like the other project)! If you or anyone you know is interested, email me at sravanti150@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.

** Note: Trans/nonbinary folks welcome as well. 🙂