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What benefits do you think can be gained from thoroughly reading the source code of a library or framework?

What was your path to becoming a web developer like, and if you were to start over what would you do differently?

Hi Ali! You are very active on social media—in a good way! How do you balance your writing, meetups, projects, ect—all the work you are passionate about—in addition to your teaching? Can you share what your day-to-day (or week-to-week) looks like?

Ali,

I love your blog and appreciate all of the time you offer the community. While I realize you are busy and are focused in software development, I am someone seeking a career change into Front End Development myself. I'm no Spring Chicken, but I'm young enough to give it a go.

My question is two fold:

1. Do you have anyone you could recommend with the same passion and conceptual delivery in Front End Development and Web Design, as you have for Software Development? I'd love to see their recommended path for someone such as myself who is seeking a career change a little later in life.

2. I know you focus on many things, so I'd pose the same question above to you - Do you have a recommended path for someone such as myself who is seeking a career change a little later in life. I love the work I've done so far through education (finishing up an IT degree with a web design focus - Thanks G.I. Bill), but want to find a more aggressive path which allows me to achieve my goals of gaining expertise, while still working my "9-5" to pay the bills.

Thanks so much for your time and effort in this response.

Warmest regards,
Gr8Tortuga

P.S. I'm a NoVA guy myself, so always nice to see someone local doing so well!

I am working on a web application as a side-project. I have my requirements, features and UI mock-ups in Sketch ready and narrowed down for the Beta launch of the app. The task of actually building the website remains open. What is the usual workflow you take to build a web application - I believe the many steps involved are
0. Getting the back-end data store ready

1. Getting the APIs defined and ready
2. Define routing within the application
3. Building the front end
4. Hooking different components up
5. Deployment and many more I suppose..

This is my first time building a web-application solo from scratch. From your experience, how do you suggest to approach the web development process?

Hey,

I noticed your website (zen-of-programming) is on google's cloud infrastructure, just curious how much that's costing you to run, and what module you rely on to run it? (ie, k8s, static, vms, etc)

Cheers

Just wondering, how is your name pronounced?
No offense, In my country, Ali is a usually a boy's name. So, I am just wondering if its probably pronounced differently than ours!

HI~!
Really like yer site & like the design.

I'm dying to know... I've seen a lot of confusing info about this.

Self-referencing JSON

I noticed that you might've used elephant SQL at one point(?).

Would you happen to know whether there might be a way to create a json file that containing objects that reference other objects?
("tables that reference other tables" (?) )

One might do this so as to "query" a json object much like a sql table.

I have no idea whether this is a ridiculous question...I simply thought of something that I'd really like to get a definitive answer on and thought I'd reach out. :)

Many thanks for the ama!

-B

hey !
i'm new in Golang and i need some goods resources to get started, so if you help me i will be grateful
;)

Hey Ali, you seem to have much audience on your articles on medium and dev.to. Wanted to know why the need for a personal blog. I have set up, but it takes so much of my time customizing than actual coding. It's annoying cause there are other sites that make it so easy and provide you with an audience already. What's your take on this?

I'm a fan of your resources and work. Curious what you find the most rewarding as an instructor both online to your audience and in class?

Hi Ali,

I have been blogging for about a year on Medium and am thinking of creating a personal blog site too. I have looked into options, such as Wordpress.com, Gatsby.js / Hugo with Netlify, and am interested in what other bloggers use.

What platform or tech stack do you use for your personal site at https://zen-of-programming.com/

Keep up the great work!

Ryan

I have worked mostly in education for my career before getting into development. I am curious to know what made you want to take the dive into teaching development and move away from development full-time.

Hi Ali,

For over a year I've been been trying to create my own personal portfolio site because I thought it would be a fun and creative way to catalogue my own stuff!

I did a lot of research and found dozens of epic portfolio sites and yours was one of them! Using all these portfolio's as inspiration I tried making my own site from scratch... but it was really hard. Even though I knew what looked good and bad, I couldn't believe how difficult it was to make something actually look good! I went through so many different designs, most of which you can see here.

Then I saw on Hacker News this article and recognised the portfolio as one listed in my favourites. It suddenly occurred to me that I was wasting so much time trying to make my own website from scratch that I hadn't looked at anyone else's code! So I decided to search for the source for your site and was grateful that you open-sourced the code!

So I sneakily cloned it and starting hacking away making it my site. I wanted it to be different, but didn't want to change it to drastically (because I struggled to make anything look good).

Anyway, this was a long way of saying thank you 🎉 for open-sourcing your personal site to help out those of us that suck at design! Here's my source code and the site is finally live at https://benwinding.com.

Sincerely,
Ben

Hey Ali, recent grad from GA DC here. What's your biggest piece of advice entering the job market, and dealing with imposter syndrome?

Hello Ali
I've read your post: "My Blog Post Workflow: from Topic to Publication ", it's a great one.
You mentioned that you like to read blog posts related to programming and I thought of sharing my own article "Why I started programming" (https://dev.to/hussein_cheayto/why-i-started-programming-35dj).
I've published this article when I've just started my blog, and I wasn't committed to it.

After almost 4 months of committment to blog, I have articles that have reached 25000+ views on dev.
Some of them have 2000+ views.
I would like to know, if these values are good enough in my current experience in blogging.
How many views you used to get in your first year of blogging?

Impatiently awaiting your response. Please respond via mail so that I get a notification: [email protected]

Best of luck
Hussein