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12 JavaScript Developers You Should Follow

CodersRank — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:20:33 +0000

In recent years, JavaScript has been consistently ranking in the top three most popular programming languages. Based on CodersRank users’ commits, JavaScript was the most popular language with our community in 2020 (with a whopping 851K commits).

Today, we’d like to highlight twelve cool JavaScript developers (in no particular order) who are not only great at what they do but also share their knowledge and contribute to the community. Some of them are big names already, but we’ve also included some rising stars⭐

Whether you’re a beginner in JavaScript or a seasoned professional, you’ll find lots of quality educational content by following them 👇

David Walsh

David Walsch is a former Senior Software Engineer and evangelist for Mozilla. Prior to that, he worked as a Core Developer on MooTools JavaScript Framework, where he created numerous MooTools plugins, and as a Software Developer at SitePen. One of his mottos is to ‘work as much in the open-source space as possible’.

What he’s up to now:

Serves as Senior Full-Stack Engineer at MetaMask
Speaks at various conferences and meetups such as London AJAX, AustinJS, BrazilJS, Snow*Mobile, etc.
Shares cool demos, useful tutorials, and invaluable dev career lessons on his blog and to his 83,000+ followers on Twitter

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Piotr Kowalski - @piecioshka

Piotr Kowalski is an open-source enthusiast and seasoned JavaScript developer. He started his career as a Web Developer, but once he discovered his passion to JavaScript, he decided to focus on the frontend and never looked back.

Kowalski is an expert in building web applications in diverse environments (for example this Smart TV platform or Ipla.tv). He’s created the architecture for lots of other big commercial projects, which are being used by a few millions of users monthly.

As a keen community builder, Kowalski also co-founded WarsawJS, ConFrontJS, and Educaton. If you’re looking for informative JavaScript content, you’ll love Kowalski’s blog (181 data-packed articles (!)) and his YouTube channel. At CodersRank, we’re big fans of his History of Front-end timeline and Awesome Shortcuts collections.

What he’s up to:

Works as Senior Frontend Software Engineer at Sumo Logic
His GitHub profile is a treasure trove of utility projects to explore
Shares useful tutorials on his blog and runs live open source sessions on his YouTube channel
Organizes webinars and training sessions on all things JavaScript

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Szymon Piłkowski - @ardcore

Szymon Pilkowski is an experienced JavaScript Developer with a passion for all kinds of experiments, focusing on HTML5 and NodeJS. He’s worked in a variety of exciting dev roles, such as helping NGO’s visualize their social change at Impact Mapper or visualizing orbits, flybys, and Near-Earth Objects for the European Space Agency.

Prior to that, in 2016 he’s served as a founder and teacher at the programming school Heycode.io.

What he’s up to:

Serves as a Sofware Engineer at Molecule.one, a cool startup that leverages AI to design novel chemical syntheses within seconds.
Grows a community at JS News: Jobs FB group
Ranks in the Top 3 JavaScript Developers in Poland at CodersRank

Snapshot from Szymon's CodersRank profile

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Ben Nadel - @bennadel

Ben Nadel is the co-founder and a principal engineer at InVision App, Inc, a company that is at the forefront of the design and UX revolution. He lives and breathes JavaScript, NodeJS, AngularJS, ColdFusion, and User Experience.

On his blog, you’ll learn about various aspects of web application development including but not limited to the topics of ColdFusion / Lucee, JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and SQL.

What he’s up to now

Runs ‘Working Code’ podcast (new episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays)
Works on a variety of Open Source projects

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Shawn Wang (Swyx)

Shawn Wang is a JavaScript developer who has worked on React and serverless JavaScript at Two Sigma, Netlify and AWS. He’s mainly active in the web dev community as a blogger and frequent speaker, committed to Learn in Public movement. He’s a GitHub Star and Stripe Community Expert.

Swyx has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, like Svelte Society, the React subreddit, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet.

What he’s up to now:

Currently working on Developer Experience at Temporal.io
Recently published The Coding Career Handbook with advice for engineers going from Junior to Senior.
Teaches various courses and workshops (Design Systems with React + TypeScript, Building Custom CLI Tooling with OClif and React-Ink, Complete Intro to Netlify in 3.5 hours, etc.)

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Tania Rascia - @taniarascia

Tania is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and architectural design patterns, documentation, and best practices. She started making websites in 1998 (on Geocities) and has been making them ever since.

On her blog (and in all her posts in other places), you can expect to learn a ton about Node.js, JavaScript (React/Redux, Vue), TypeScript, PHP, Python, Bash, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, and more.

What she’s up to now:

Serves as Staff Software Engineer at Balto AI
Recently authored Understanding the DOM book
Writes lots of tutorials on her blog and other websites
Works on a variety of open-source projects, which are available on her GitHub.

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Blog
Github

Khriztian Moreno - @khriztianmoreno

Khriztian Moreno is a JavaScript developer. On a daily basis, he uses JavaScript (ES6), React, Gatsby, CSS (inJS), GraphQL, Serverless, just to name the most important bits. He’s a community leader and an altruistic speaker. He helps others learn by doing through articles, videos, and courses about Javascript, React, and the static web.

What he’s up to now:

Co-organizes Medellin.js (the biggest JavaScript user group in Colombia), Avanet and JAMstack Medellin communities
Speaks at Commit.fm podcast
Producer at @commit.fm via @twitch

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Kent C. Dodds - @kentcdodds

Kent C. Dodds is a JavaScript software engineer and teacher. He’s taught hundreds of thousands of people how to make the world a better place with quality software development tools and practices. He’s a keen educator and organized multiple JavaScript workshops.

What he’s up to now:

Runs ‘Chats with Kent’ podcast
Develops awesome (and many of them free) video courses on React, JavaScript, Suspense, etc.
Runs The KCD Community on Discord, a community of people who want to make connections, share ideas, and use software to help make the world a better place

Get in in touch with him on:

Robin Weiruch

Robin Wieruch is a self-employed software and web engineer dedicated to learning and teaching JavaScript for client-server architectures. After obtaining his Master’s Degree in computer science, he gained experience from the startup world, where he used JavaScript intensively.

He shares his many years of practical experience in the field via his blog, four self-published ebooks, and a course platform.

What he’s up to now:

Shares excellent writings on all things JavaScript, React.JS, Node.JS, Firebase on his blog
As a keen believer in bridging the knowledge gap and unequal access to learning, his e-book The Road to React was translated into 6 languages (Russian, French, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Persian)
Shares great tutorials to 17,000+ followers on Twitter

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Paolo Duzioni - @paoloduzioni

Paolo Duzioni is a web developer focused on the front-end side and a coding coach, who has always been attracted to how creativity can be used along with web technologies, to create amazing experiences.

He builds websites and web applications, WordPress and Drupal themes, Laravel web apps, Vue JS and React JS/Native apps.

What he’s up to:

Works as a Teacher at Boolean Careers
Ranks in the Top 100 JavaScript developer in Hungary
Contributes to a variety of Open Source projects

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JC Smiley

JS Smiley is an experienced React Developer and a community builder. His top specialties are React, React Native, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Node/Express, Angular, and Java.

Smiley is passionate about organizing tech meetups, helping others learn to code, and moderating an online slack channel for local developers.

What he’s up to now:

Manages Code-Connective, a local non-profit tech meetup group
Organizes other various meetups such as Dev-Memphis, Code-Connective, and Memphis Web Workers
Serves as a Teaching Assistant at Teach Code

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Jennifer Ponder

Jennifer Ponder is an experienced Technical Solutions Leader. She has worked as a software developer solving complex problems and implementing agile methodologies for B2B and B2C organizations.

A constant leader for diversity, equity, and inclusion in tech. She has helped communities plan their diversity and inclusion development strategies for minorities and underrepresented groups in tech.

What she’s up to now:

Serves as a Co-Lead for Atlanta Chapter for Black Women Talk Tech (Talk Tech Association) and National Program Director at STEM Atlanta Women
Serves as Director of Technology at Common Counsel Foundation
Partners with startups and non-profits for events in the Atlanta area where she has given technical talks and talks around women creating their own pathway to reach leadership

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7 PHP Developers You Should Follow

CodersRank — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:37:10 +0000

If there was a prize for which language is most often being called dead, PHP would win big. Some posts titled ‘Is PHP Dead’ go as far back as 2011.

Regardless of whether one likes this language or not, PHP is very much alive and kicking💪

Given the fact that PHP powers 78.9% of all websites (according to W3Techs), the job market for PHP is in a good place. With the latest release of PHP 8.0, PHP is as also as fast as ever. Ohh, and did I mention that Laravel has been consistently ranking at the top in the various back-end frameworks ratings?

All in all, PHP might not be the sexiest or most modern language, but it’s not going anywhere anytime soon👇

This week, when PHP celebrates it’s 26th birthday, we highlight seven great PHP developers (in no particular order) who actively contribute to the community and prove that this language is alive and kicking.

1. Lorna Jane Mitchell

Lorna Jane Mitchell (also known as lornajane) is a Developer Advocate for Aiven. She supports developers doing amazing things with open-source data platforms. She loves APIs, scripting languages, and learning new things. She’s also passionate about open source and about sharing what she knows with others.

Mitchell is a published author, blogger and conference speaker, and project maintainer. According to her, she’s ‘happiest when her GitHub graph is green’.

What she’s up to:

Authored Git Workbook, PHP Web Services and PHP Master
A regular conference speaker and writer for a number of outlets (including the Avien blog)
She’s active on her blog, Twitter (14,000+ followers) and on Twitch
Most recently spoken at Kafka Summit and Stockholm Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent

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2. Larry Garfield

Larry Garfield has been building websites since he was a sophomore in high school. Previously, he was Director of Developer Experience for Platform.sh and a long-time Drupal contributor and consultant. He also led the Drupal 8 Web Services initiative that helped transform Drupal into a modern PHP platform.

What he’s up to:

Serves as Staff Engineer at the TYPO3 project
Serves as a member of the PHP-FIG Core Committee
Has authored several books on PHP development including Thinking Functionally in PHP and Exploring PHP 8.0.
Actively blogs at his own blog GarfieldTech and PeakD

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3. Rob Allen

Rob Allen is a software consultant and developer focusing on solving interesting problems with HTTP APIs. His specialties are PHP, Python, Swift, Slim Framework, Apache OpenWhisk, and Zend Framework.

He runs his own company, Nineteen Feet where he provides consultancy, development and training to clients, concentrating on APIs.

What he’s up to:

Contributes to various Open Source projects including rst2pdf, Slim Framework and OpenWhisk
The main author of Zend Framework in Action and contributor to the Zend_Config core component in ZF1
Shares his knowledge on his blog DevNotes
Speaks at various conferences such as The Online PHP Conference, PHP Fest Russia, 3 Hours of Serverless, Laravel Conf Taiwan, PHP fwdays’20, Midwest PHP, and others

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4. Albert Wolszon

Albert Wolszon has been programming since he turned 10. With a strong background as a web developer, he’s one of the most followed PHP developers on Github in Poland. Recently, he fell in love with Flatter which he uses for developing amazing apps at LeanCode.

If you’re interested in discovering interesting open-source projects, tips and tricks on PHP and Flatter, you’ll absolutely love Wolszon’s Github account.

What he’s up to:

Wolszon took 2nd place in the Polish hackathon Hack Heroes and won the international contest Google Code-in.
One of the most popular PHP, Go and Flutter developers in Poland on GitHub
Creates lots of nifty apps at LeanCode. The most recent one is this fun package for creating funnily-shaped dashed lines for your app Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat

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5. Szymon Krajewski

Szymon Krajewski specializes in PHP, but he’s also experienced with JavaScript and its ecosystem, Python, Java, and, Bash. His mission is to help others write better code by showing, explaining and inspiring via his blog, szymonkrajewski.pl.

Follow Krajewski to learn about Domain-Driven Design, automation, high availability, and data security – especially cryptography.

What he’s up to:

Works as PHP developer at FINGO Software House
Writes about software development, web technologies and self-improvement on his blog
Currently trying his hand at Node.js

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6. Paul M. Jones

Paul M. Jones is an internationally recognized PHP professional, working in that language since 1999, and programming in general since 1983.

Paul’s past community leadership involves having been a founding member of the PHP Framework Interoperability Group, where he was the driving force behind the PSR-1 Coding Standard, the PSR-2 Style Guide, and the PSR-4 Autoloader recommendations.

Paul’s historical open-source work includes being the project lead on the Aura for PHP libraries, the architect of the Solar Framework, and the creator of the Savant template system. He has authored a series of authoritative benchmarks on dynamic framework performance. He was a founding contributor to the Zend Framework, now Laminas (the DB, DB_Table, and View components).

What he’s up to:

Wrote the books Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP and Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP, as well as his white paper on the Action Domain Responder pattern
His current major open-source project is the Atlas ORM for PHP, a database framework for PHP to help you work with your persistence model, while providing a path to refactor towards a richer domain model as needed
A regular speaker at technical conferences worldwide
Active blogger at paul-m-jones.com

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Github
Blog

7. Matthias Noback

Matthias Noback is a professional web developer since 2003. Matthias has his own web development, training and consultancy company called Noback’s Office. He has a strong focus on backend development and architecture, always looking for better ways to design software.

What he’s up to:

Since 2011, he’s been blogging about all sorts of programming-related topics on his blog matthiasnoback.nl
He’s published seven programming books (the most recent ones are Principles of Package Design and a Style Guide for Object Design)
Shares his knowledge on various events and workshops

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7 Hungarian Developers You Should Follow

CodersRank — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:51:29 +0000

Every industry has people who stand out. They are blazing the trails, making incredible career moves, and establishing a strong legacy for themselves.

The tech field is no different. We have incredibly talented developers who are influencing the landscape. They are creating new interpretations of technical concepts, and building all kinds of tools and services that the world at large can benefit from.

To give you your daily dose of inspiration, we have collected a handful of Hungarian developers you should follow. But why Hungary?

Hungary is one of the leading software development destinations in the world. Studies show that software development represents 6% of the nation’s economy and employs over 80,100 people.

Our CTO, Peter and CEO Karesz

And did you know that CodersRank is based in Hungary, too? The reason why we’ll put the focus on Hungarian developers today is to pay a tribute to our country and to highlight some of the local talent.

We’ll feature as many countries as we can in upcoming blog posts.

These 7 Hungarian developers work hard to share quality content. Some are book authors, some are podcasters, some have their own courses. Most of them are already on CodersRank but we also included a few devs who are not, as we wanted to focus on outstanding achievements.

Check them out and be inspired!

Jump to a developer profile:

Gábor Ruzsinszki – C#, IoT, Microcontroller
Ferenc Erki – IT automation, cloud, DevOps/SRE, Perl
Judit Pacsai – Front-end development
Albert Borsos – Backend development
Dávid Levai – Full stack development
Krisztián Papp – Java, Spring
Zsolt Nagy – Front-end development

Gábor Ruzsinszki

Gábor is a software architect and teacher with over 12 years of experience in C#, .NET Core, and WPF. He served as a lecturer at the University of Szeged for 6 years, passing on his wealth of knowledge about computer networks, information security, and electronics to the next generation of programmers.
See his CodersRank profile >>

The C# guru is passionate about helping others learn and reach their potential. Gábor has been invited to speak at several conferences. He regularly creates blog posts and video content explaining technical concepts or sharing insights from his developer journey.

Gábor’s other achievements include:

Authoring two books on C#, IoT, & Microcontroller project development: Programozható Elektronikák released in 2019 and Hello C# published in 2020.
Expert knowledge of JavaScript, C, Shell, HTML, Batchfile, JSON, C++, PHP, CSS, Flask, and NodeJS.
He is in the Top 3% Being in the top 1% of developers worldwide is based on experience and skills.

If you’re a beginner or senior developer looking to discover fresh points of view on programming and advance your abilities, you should follow Gábor and keep an eye on his work.

You can check out his CodersRank profile, visit his website at Webmaster442.hu, or take a look at his GitHub profile. You can find him on Facebook at Webmaster442.hu.

Ferenc Erki

Ferenc Erki is an IT automation specialist, DevOps/SRE generalist, cloud builder, FLOS maintainer, founder of open-source contributors’ meetups, and a Perl hacker.
See his CodersRank profile >>

This self-described autodidact wears many professional hats. Ferenc has over 14 years of professional experience. He has enjoyed a flourishing career full of several notable achievements.

What he’s up to:

Ferenc serves as lead maintainer for the Rex automation framework.
He helped CodersRank improve support for Perl to recognize modules, tests, and a collection of popular libraries, in addition to script files.
Ferenc is very active in Perl communities on Reddit and other platforms.
Ferenc is skilled at multiple programming languages and tech stacks including Perl, Python, JSON, HTML, Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Moo, and Gentoo.

We highly recommend that aspiring and established backend developers follow Ferenc.

Ferenc Erki is active on LinkedIn and Twitter. Feel free to check out his CodersRank profile and see what he’s up to on his GitHub Sponsors page.

Judit Pacsai

Judit is a front-end developer and self-confessed gamer girl. She has a keen, problem-solving mind and a passion for building creative and innovative software. If you want to learn how to create and implement unique designs, Judit is one to watch.
See her CodersRank profile >>

What she’s up to:

Judit is ranked in the top 4% of developers on CodersRank and is one of the top 10 CSS and SCSS developers on the platform.
She is skilled in multiple languages and technologies including JavaScript, React, React Native, Vue, Sass, TypeScript, Redux, NextJs, Jest, Cypress, Puppeteer and Python.
Judit is very active on GitHub with a variety of interesting projects.
She has built many applications such as a book tracking app, neighborhood app, classic arcade game, matching game, and a restaurant reviews app.
She holds multiple certifications from Udacity, CodeBerry, and FreeCodeCamp.

You can follow Judit on her Linkedin page, CodersRank profile, or Github repository.

Albert Borsos

Albert is a software consultant and backend developer who specializes in system design and development. He is passionate about creating web-based applications that help businesses perform better and grow faster.
See his CodersRank profile >>

What he’s up to:

He offers his own training workshops and courses on Git and Yii.
Albert built a free SEO text generator tool, as well as a Password generator to help people generate strong passwords and remember them.
He is ranked in the top 33% of developers on CodersRank.
He is recognized as a PHP, Yii, Javascript, Symfony, HTML, CSS, JSON expert.
Albert has worked on projects for Deutsche Telekom, Invitel, OTP, Magyar Telekom, WizzAir, Szerencsejatek Zrt, among others.

Both front-end and back-end developers can learn a lot from Albert, including tricks and hacks that can help them become wildly successful in their careers.

You can visit Albert’s CodersRank profile and his personal website to find out more about him, read his blog, use one of his free tools, or register for his courses. To see his latest projects, you can also follow him on GitHub.

Dávid Levai

Dávid is an experienced Tech Lead, Product-centered Full Stack dev, Content Creator and entrepreneur. He is enthusiastic about self-development, productivity, digital marketing, and UX.
See his CodersRank profile >>

What he’s up to:

Writing and publishing tech articles on several platforms such as his website, Medium, and Dev.to.
Serving as a programming mentor at Udacity.
Dávid served as the CEO and Tech Lead of Classy Digital Agency, a web development and marketing agency based in Budapest.
He has built and deployed several apps including UniPie, Startender Mobile App, BES, Medicall Mobile Application and several PWAs and Full-Service projects.

You can find him on Instagram at @davidlevai.codes and subscribe to his YouTube channel. He uses his channel to teach software developers how to advance their careers and be successful as freelancers.

You’ll benefit from checking out Dávid’s Github profile or CodersRank profile to see the interesting stuff he’s working on.

Krisztián Papp

Another talented developer who you should be following is Krisztián Papp. Krisztián has years of experience working as a software engineer in the information technology and services industry.

He specializes in Java and Spring, and is well-skilled in a host of other languages and technologies.

Krisztián is also a professional speaker, blogger, and content developer. He loves providing guidance, motivation, and support to other programmers.

What he’s up to:

He is the founder of Letscode.hu, a Hungarian development community that provides tech professionals with all the tools, tips, and tricks needed to succeed in their trade.
Krisztián also provides video tutorials for beginners.
He hosts a podcast on SoundCloud also named Letscode.hu.
He has published lots of content on Medium and his website Letscode.hu.

If you’re a back end developer, we recommend reading his articles and listening to his podcast. You can follow Krisztián on Twitter @tacsiazuma and Github at Tacsiazuma.

Zsolt Nagy

Zsolt is a web development lead, professional poker player, mentor, IT career coach, and full stack engineer.

He has over 10 years of experience using cutting edge technologies to develop maintainable web applications.

He is passionate about solving complex problems, building meaningful products, and helping developers achieve their professional and personal goals.

Zsolt is one of the most celebrated developers in the industry and he has done a lot to earn this fame and respect.

What he’s up to:

He has his own courses on Udemy and regularly conducts workshops and training programs on a variety of topics.
Zsolt is highly competent in JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3, SASS, HTML5, JSON, PHP, C++, MySQL, Oracle, Linux, Windows, REST API, and many more languages and tech stacks.
He runs three different blogs and publishes content on Medium, Butter CMS, Leanpub, amongst others.
Zsolt is the brain behind Memory Trainer, Gomoku, Hierarchy Tree, and Hand History Parser web applications.
He is the author of multiple books—Modern JavaScript, The Charismatic Coder, ES6 in Practice, Soft Skills to Advance Your Developer Career, and The Developer’s Edge.

Follow Zsolt on Medium and Twitter @Z501t to benefit from his content and wealth of experience, or take a look at his Github profile. You can learn more about Zsolt by visiting his blogs. His coding blog on zsoltnagy.eu and his website programozaskarrier.hu will help you improve your JavaScript skills by building real-world applications and solving interview questions.

Are you ready to build a compelling portfolio?

I hope you liked this quick list of Hungarian developers who are worth following. There’s no denying that these devs are all talented and at the top of their careers. However, they didn’t get to this position overnight. They have had to practice relentlessly and learn from other developers who are doing groundbreaking work.

How do your skills and experiences measure up?

If you’re not yet on CodersRank, then register your own profile.
If you’re already on CodersRank, then let us know who you would like to see on our next list!

The 5 Most Effective Ways To Market Yourself as a Developer

CodersRank — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:20:44 +0000

Knowing Javascript inside and out or all the programming languages in the world won’t be enough to help you land a great job that pays incredibly well or secure those amazing opportunities that are hard to come by.

If you want to truly advance your career and succeed as a developer, you need to market yourself. Sure, coding is your passion and you’d rather bury yourself in it, but how would anyone know that you’re good at what you do or even discover you unless you put yourself out there?

When screening for developer positions, many companies pay attention to candidates who have active programmer profiles—a blog, podcast, open-source contributions, YouTube channel, or a history of speaking at tech events—that speaks to their abilities. They view developers with these achievements and experiences as more likely to be talented because their reputation suggests it.

A little marketing can help you shine brightly in the eyes of potential employers. The last thing you want is to be just another candidate or resume when applying for a job. You need to find a way to stand out from the other stack of papers so that companies are pushed to invite you for an interview or make you an offer.

With effective marketing, you may not even have to go job hunting, opportunities will come knocking at your door. When you share your goals, skills, experiences, and knowledge about your field publicly, it helps to establish you as an expert. As such, companies will be happy to pay you a premium salary rather than hiring one of your seemingly less qualified counterparts.

Now that you understand how important marketing is and how it can enhance your reputation and turn you into a job magnet, we’re going to walk you through actionable steps you can take to successfully market yourself as a developer, stand out from the competition, get on recruiters’ radars, and bag the job offer of your dreams.

We have ranked these steps according to how useful and important they can be in helping you market yourself and your skills effectively.

TL;DR:

Build your portfolio
Build a personal brand
Register a profile on CodersRank
Network with fellow tech professionals
Tidy up your LinkedIn profile

Following these steps will help you enlarge your horizons and place your best foot forward so life-changing opportunities can find you. While other developers are scrambling to submit resumes and nail their technical interviews, you’ll already be far ahead.

Let’s take an in-depth look into each of these steps and how you can use them to enhance your career as a software developer and go from chasing after the prize to becoming the prize.

1. Build your portfolio

As a developer, you know that you need to keep practicing and refining your skills. What you might not know is that you can use the assignments and projects you do to create a portfolio that showcases your expertise.

If you don’t already have a GitHub profile, start by creating one and start pushing code to it regularly, and make your experiments public. This is non-negotiable. GitHub is your code repository and it should be used to display all the code you’ve written, projects you’ve worked on, and other interesting code-related activities you’ve been involved in.

Your GitHub account is basically your developer resume because it serves as proof of how well you can code. It says more about your skills than any CV or interview can. Contribute to as many open source libraries as you can. The more open source contributions you have the greater the value prospective employers will see in hiring you.

If you’d like to make valuable contributions to open source libraries, but you’re not sure how to go about submitting one, finding projects to contribute to, or even what kind of contributions you can make, check out these resources:

How to contribute to open source
A first timer’s guide to an open source project
How to contribute to open source projects

It’s also important to have a portfolio website where potential employers can go to learn more about you, the work you’ve done, and how your skills and experience can benefit their organization.

When building your portfolio, here are the things you’ll want to pay attention to:

Set up a professional site

It makes sense for your domain to be in your name since this is a personal portfolio and people should be able to find it by simply entering your name into a search engine. Make sure you purchase the domain so that you can have full control over it and be able to migrate to a different web platform.

You cannot expect employers to take you seriously if you proclaim yourself to be a talented developer, but your website looks shabby and amateurish. You want anyone who stumbles on your site to be immediately impressed by the layout and design even before they go through any of your pages.

Source

Your site should be easy to navigate and visually pleasing. You can decide to code your website from scratch and display it as one of the projects in your portfolio or create one using your preferred web platform. Whatever you choose, remember to keep it simple.

Include a well-designed logo that communicates your values and serves as an accurate representation of who you are and what you do.

Keep in mind that a personal website is going to mean different things to a back end developer and a front end developer since they’re different fields. Whichever faction you belong to, you just need to find an approach to your website design and presentation that best represents who you are and what you do.

If you’re a newbie developer, this detailed step-by-step guide will help you build a great-looking portfolio website from scratch to showcase your skills and value to potential employers and help you get hired faster. It covers everything from registering a domain name to choosing a reliable website, creating eye-catching home and about me pages, building contact forms, and more.

Check out these 7 best practices for creating a programming portfolio website that stands out. The article also contains tips on mistakes to avoid when building your website and what recruiters look for in a developer portfolio, as well as stunning website examples that are sure to get your creativity flowing.

Showcase your work

The point of having an online portfolio is to highlight the work you’ve done in the past and the accomplishments you’re proud of. If you don’t have any concrete work experience yet, you can start by creating a single web page and adding links to other online profiles you have like your social media and GitHub account.

When you write articles, host webinars, give talks, contribute to open source libraries, create tutorial videos, or work on anything interesting, update your site accordingly. Explain what each project is about, why it’s important, and when it was done.

Don’t just go on and on about the agile methodologies, frameworks, and programming languages that you know. Display that project you built using Javascript, PHP, CSS, or whatever tech stacks you say you’re familiar with.

Let visitors see the skills you possess in action and how you can use these skills to grow their business. This will establish your expertise, credibility, and trustworthiness.

Share your story

Don’t be shy about being yourself. Let your personality shine through. Describe yourself as honestly as you can. What is it that makes you special? What struggles, failures, or challenges have you encountered over the course of your career? Employers don’t want to hire mindless code monkeys, but people they can relate to.

Include your contact details

Give visitors and potential employers a way to reach you. Add your email address and phone number or create a simple contact form they can fill out. If they have to jump through hoops to find your contact information, you might miss out on many good opportunities.

2. Build a personal brand

Personal branding is simply a way of making yourself known for something. As a programmer, you not only want to be competent in your field, you also want people to see you that way. Thanks to the internet, it’s easier than ever to create a brand around yourself.

Ask yourself what you want to be known for? Who are you and what do you want to represent? What is your core message? What do you want people to think of when they see or hear your name? Once you have this figured out, start putting this message out there and making sure it’s reflected in everything you do.

Here are some of the ways you can create a strong personal brand and actively promote yourself:

Clean up assets related to communication

Come up with a logo for your brand if you don’t already have one. It should be something simple, eye-catching, and an accurate representation of who you are and what you’re about. Don’t go changing your logo every week or so. Find one that works for you and use it everywhere.

Get professional headshots taken to use as cover images for your online profiles. Go through your social media accounts and public forums and delete any inappropriate messages or comments that don’t align with the image you want to project or reflect badly on you as a person.

Start a blog

A blog can be a wonderful way to showcase your skills as a developer, become well-known in your industry, and attract potential clients or employers.

Your blog doesn’t have to have tens of thousands of readers, but you do need to build a decent audience. You can do this by sharing useful information that adds some kind of value to your readers’ lives. Talk about your professional journey, the challenges you’ve faced along the way, and how you overcame them.

Teach people how to solve problems. Show examples of work you’ve done in the past to help junior developers find their way and build themselves up. Think of something you’ve struggled with that you found a solution to and write about it for other people out there experiencing the same problems. Write about whatever appeals to you as long as it’s consistent with your brand image.

If writing isn’t your thing, consider creating content through other platforms like Youtube, social media, or podcasts.

Get active on digital channels and forums

Programmer resources and platforms like Twitter, Stack Overflow, Reddit, and Dev.to can go a long way in helping you market yourself and advance your career. Pick the one that you prefer the most or as many as possible and start making yourself visible.

Talk about your programming journey. Connect with senior and junior developers all around the world. Share your ideas and collaborate on projects. Answer questions on topics that you’re knowledgeable about. Discover open positions that you’re qualified for and apply for them.

Speaking/webinars/mentorship

Look for speaking engagements at developer events, host webinars, apply for mentorship programs where you teach people about a topic you’re interested in or passionate about. You don’t have to be an expert on a subject to speak about it convincingly and get people to listen. As long as you have a genuine interest in the subject matter, you can give a great presentation on it.

3. Register a profile on CodersRank

These are some of the peeps trying to make CodersRank awesome for you!

CodersRank is a platform that allows you to showcase your credentials and find amazing job opportunities. You can create a comprehensive digital developer profile using the private and public data you have on various coding sites like Stack Overflow, GitHub, and HackerEarth.

It’s kind of like LinkedIn, but better in that it’s specifically designed for developers and you have a lot more control over your profile and the attention it attracts. For instance, on CodersRank, you can regulate whether or not you’re interested in receiving job offers from recruiters. On LinkedIn, there is no such feature.

Naturally, we’re partial to CodersRank because it’s our own product, but we believe that its value and accomplishments speak for themselves. Over 40,000 developers from 100+ countries and various skill levels are happily using CodersRank to market themselves and land offers for their dream jobs.

You can highlight everything that makes you special from your work experience to the programming languages and tech stack you prefer, choose the salary range and job locations that suit you, and even compare your skillset and value with other developers around the globe.

Other benefits of having a CodersRank profile include:

-You can get personalized job offers.
-You can monitor your professional progress (see our cool progress chart below).
-You can network with other developers, get inspiration, or just have a good time.
-You can save yourself a lot of time by not having to update your CV ever again.

Monitor your professional progress with CodersRank’s progress chart.

How to set up your CodersRank profile

Creating a profile on our platform is very easy. All you have to do is follow a few simple steps and your profile will be up and ready to go in minutes.

Step 1: Hop over to profile.codersrank.io/login and click on the Create Your Profile button. This will take you to the registration page. Click on Sign up with GitHub to get started.

Step 2: Enter your GitHub username or email address and password and click Sign up with GitHub or Create an account to continue.

Step 3: Next, authorize CodersRank to access your GitHub account and your personal user data. By default, we only request access to public data.

Step 4: You’ll be taken to a new page where you’ll be asked to select your job preferences. The options are: Actively applying, Not looking but open to offers, and Not available for hire. Pick the option that best applies to you, then answer the questions that follow to let us know about your dream job. Next, add your skills and specializations.

Step 5: Add your work experiences. We have a LinkedIn import tool that allows you to simply copy and upload your LinkedIn profile rather than inputting the information manually.

Step 6: Enter some additional information about yourself such as your full name, phone number, and location. Once that is done, your profile will be created and you can click Done, see your profile to view it, and add other relevant information such as your salary expectations, portfolio, and access to other programmer resources like Stack Overflow, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Hackerrank. For a more detailed overview of setting up your profile the right way, see this guide.

You can now start connecting with recruiters and receiving amazing job offers without going through too much trouble hunting them down.

4. Network with fellow tech professionals

When you hear about a great job opportunity you probably tell people you know that you feel are right for the position before sharing it anywhere else. When you need a product or service, you’re more likely to ask for and consider recommendations from people you trust.

That’s the beauty of networking. It gives you access to opportunities you might not have known about and helps you get your foot in the door.

The people you know can open doors for you and make your career, so you need to build a strong network of friends and acquaintances in the right places. There are many great places online for you to meet other tech professionals and introduce yourself as a senior developer or junior developer.

Use Twitter, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, LinkedIn, and Facebook to learn, connect with other programmers and techies, share your knowledge, and promote yourself and your skills.

Join professional groups that cater to your niche on LinkedIn and Facebook, partake in conversations and get noticed, and build solid relationships with the people you meet there. We also highly recommend joining one of the many active Slack channels for developers out there.

These connections and communities will prove invaluable to your job search. Rather than sending out resumes en masse or cold emailing hiring managers, you can reach out to people in your network and have them send opportunities your way or put in a good word for you with recruiters.

When the pandemic is over, you can move from remote networking to in-person networking. Go out, meet people, introduce yourself, and interact with them. Attend local developer events, conferences, and meetups. Take an interest in what people are doing and position yourself as someone who can offer value to them. Networking isn’t about being a bloodsucking pest.

5. Tidy up your LinkedIn profile

LinkedIn is another powerful tool you can use to sell yourself. Research shows that more than 90% of recruiters use LinkedIn so if you don’t have a strong LinkedIn presence, you’re doing yourself a great disservice.

Whether you’re a seasoned front-end developer, you prefer to deal with back-end or the full-stack, or you’re a newbie techie, LinkedIn can help you get noticed, build connections that could potentially help your career, and help you discover new job opportunities.

Make sure you complete your LinkedIn profile because completed profiles rank higher on the platform and are more likely to be discovered and given opportunities. Upload a clear, professional photo of yourself as your profile image. Add your location and industry.

Fill out your education section. If you don’t have a formal college degree, list the bootcamps you’ve attended or the certificates and courses you’ve gotten from online learning platforms like Coursera, Udacity, Codecademy, Udemy, Pluralsight, etc.

Talk about your most relevant and recent work experience in the experience section. If you haven’t worked in fields that are related to web development, highlight the code-based projects you’ve done instead.

Don’t neglect the skills section. Proudly showcase at least five tech and non-tech skills you’ve acquired over the years. Do you have planning and organization skills? Give examples of the workflow, communication, and thought processes you’ve created. If you possess communication skills like writing, teaching, or presenting, talk about it.

The summary section is where you get to tell your story, explain what you do, what drives, your goals and aspirations are, and any other message you want to pass across. Mention the tech stack and frameworks you’re familiar with or interested in.

If you’d rather work with Javascript, Python, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, React, Laravel, or other specific tech stacks, don’t be afraid to say so. This’ll help you get more relevant job leads. Use relevant keywords to help LinkedIn’s algorithm figure out what your profile is about.

Summaries that are over 40 words long are indexed better in internal search results than those that are shorter. Try to sound as natural as possible. Write like you’re speaking to someone who’s right in front of you. Your summary should talk to people, not at them.

Don’t forget to show examples of your work. Demonstrate to potential employers that you’d be a valuable addition to their teams to projects. Include videos, documents, links, presentations, or photos to the education, experience, or summary sections of your LinkedIn profile to back up the claims you make about your abilities.

Adding a call-to-action to your profile is very important. You need to push visitors and recruiters to find out more about you. Examples of CTAs you can include in your summary are:

-Check out my GitHub repositories at (your GitHub profile).
-See my CodersRank profile here (your CodersRank profile link).
-Contact me directly at (your email address).
-Find me on Twitter at (your handle).
-See some of my design samples at (your portfolio website URL).

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Don’t just create a LinkedIn profile and forget about it. Stay active. Connect with your current and former colleagues, and other people you know. Join LinkedIn groups with other developers and members who share your interests and participate in group discussions.

Post updates to let your network know what you’re up to. Share an article that you found informative. Share the project you’re working on or the code you’re writing. Keep interacting with people and growing your connections.

To learn more about how to create the ultimate professional LinkedIn profile, how to optimize your profile for better search visibility, and common mistakes you should be avoiding while using the platform check out this guide.

Take your job search efforts to the next level on LinkedIn by applying these tips so recruiters and potential employers can find you and be impressed by your story and talent.

Finding the right words to sell yourself can be difficult, so here are some amazing and creative LinkedIn summary examples you can draw inspiration from. You’ll get plenty of ideas that’ll help you craft a description that’s unique, personal, and engaging.

Are you ready to find your dream job?

If you’re going to get great jobs and advance in your career, your ability to market yourself is important. Start seeing yourself as a business, and your skills as a product that you need to sell.

Make sure you read up on tech recruitment processes and prepare yourself accordingly. Your interview should dazzle recruiters as well as your credentials.

Remember that consistency is vital. If you want your marketing efforts to stick, you need to keep putting yourself out there regularly. Without repeated exposure, people will forget you or fail to recognize you.

As long as you implement a good marketing strategy for promoting yourself and you’re patient and consistent with it you can grow your reputation, get recognized within the tech community, and start getting the lucrative job offers you deserve.

What got you hired?

CodersRank — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:47:52 +0000

We want to hear ALL stories but especially interested in ones where a surprising element played a part in your hiring. Could have been something on your resume, portfolio, or something you said at the interview... hit us with your random stories!

The evolution of the most popular repositories since 2012

CodersRank — Fri, 22 May 2020 19:34:56 +0000

This blog post originally appeared here.

Everyone loves data. If you’re a developer, you probably have data for dessert.

This is why we created a series of data visualization videos to show you the changes that happened to code development over time. The results were fascinating throughout. We knew we had to cover this in more detail.

In the below post, we’ll walk you through the timeline of the “Most popular repositories by stars” video. We’ll break down the most interesting events that went down during these 8 years. Keep in mind, that by no means are we able to cover everything, these are just highlights.

Watch the video first:

Jump to a year:

2012: the boom of developer-friendly tools
2013: the birth of the self-taught developer
2014: all about Node.js
2015: goodbye JQuery, hello Python
2016: the year React.js challenged Angular.js
2017: JavaScript never sleeps
2018: the war between front-end frameworks
2019: the protest against the overwork of developers

2012: the boom of developer-friendly tools

The year was 2012. Felix Baumgartner just leaped from 13 miles above Earth. Facebook just went public. Linux was one of the most well-known open source projects. Life was good, especially because the world did not end.

Source: Valtamnz on Wikipedia

MVC

Ruby on Rails was gaining popularity. Some say that it was deliberately created to increase developer happiness. What we know for sure is that more and more developers ended up switching to Rails from node.js thanks to its maturity and ease of use.

Dynamic web

Up ‘till now, all developers had for browser compatibility was vanilla JavaScript and CSS. To top that, Internet Explorer was still the most used browser in 2012 (but Chrome was coming up as a close second).

A smarter, more dynamic approach was needed here.

Enter JQuery. This amazing new JavaScript library had one of its most popular periods around 2012. Cross-browser display was no longer an issue, and its simplicity was praised across the board. Even big players, like Microsoft and Nokia used them. Those were the days.

Bootstrap was created as a framework at Twitter to improve consistencies across internal tools. Co-developer, Mark Otto said about Bootstrap:

Some of our early internal tools at Twitter lacked a refined and approachable design and we found it difficult to develop or iterate quickly. Folks from various teams recognized this problem and saw an amazing opportunity for this and future projects. Acknowledging this, we began to form a rough process by collaborating across Design and Engineering early on.
Mark Otto – A List Apart, 2012

Little did they know that Bootstrap would quickly grow itself out of the initial idea, only to become something insanely popular. Such out-of-the-box, and yet such a customizable solution was unique on the market. Bootstrap allowed webmasters to have a modern, mobile-first website with virtually no compatibility issues.

Honorable mentions

Socket.io was the first implementation of real-time web applications. It worked especially well with node.js and had great use in platforms that required a stable foundation for chat components.

Moment.js proved to be a great help in parsing and manipulating time and date in JavaScript.

Underscore.js was created with hundreds of helper functions for more efficient JavaScript development.

Express.js: the most popular web framework for node.js. It was developed to help code web applications faster and easier, which would otherwise take a long time using only Node.js.

2013: the birth of the self-taught developer

Source: undraw.co

Thanks to the high demand and lucrative pay, more and more people wanted to learn software development. The catch: not-so-deep-pockets. University courses were expensive. Any sort of formal education was out of the question for most people.

Thus, the era of the self-taught developer was born. Codewars just launched at the end of 2012 and freeCodeCamp was about to kick off in 2014.

You could also get your dose of code learning on vhf/free-programming-books, a collection of freely available books on code development.

The self-taught trend is still going strong today, and employers are happy to take on talented individuals based solely on their coding experience.

The time Docker came and changed everything

2013 also marked the arrival of Docker. Docker, a set of platform-as-service products, was developed during the 2010 Y Combinator startup incubator and released to the public in 2013.

It was an overnight success. It could package, provision, and run container technology. Docker was built to enable multiple applications with different OS requirements to run on the same OS kernel in containers.

The IT community quickly recognized the immense advantage that Docker presented. In 2013 it landed in the Top 15 most used repos with more than 15,000 commits, and then grew to more than 50,000 within just a year.

Docker was one of the first technologies to truly disrupt how we develop and deploy modern software.

2014: all about Node.js

High market demand for developers continued, with a special need for Node.js developers. Not surprisingly, data on repositories shows a clear boost in the available libraries for the same period (see this section in the video).

Source: blog.udemy.com

Web development leaves the browser

Today, you know it as NW.js but back in the day, it was called node-webkit and it was like fresh air in the native applications scene. It was created at Intel in an attempt to solve the problems encountered in creating SPA offline applications (read more on this here).

With direct calls to Node.js, Node-webkit enabled developers to write native apps using web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and WebGL. At the time, node-webkit was one of the best things out there for desktop applications.

2015: goodbye JQuery, hello Python

After many failed attempts (knockout.js, GWT), finally, another front-end library gained enough momentum so that it could take the throne from JQuery. This was Angular.js.

A Google employee, by the name of Miško Hevery, created Angular with to simplify web application building. He achieved this simply by extending the vocabulary of HTML. You didn’t even need to be a developer to use Angular.js, so it quickly gained popularity amongst web designers and hobbyists.

Python’s first wave

Flask is a micro web framework written in Python. It started as an April Fool’s joke, then the creators started thinking: what if we did this?

Source: Opening the Flask

So, by 2015, Flask became a thing, and it’s still going strong: as of 2020 May, it is still in the Top 10 most starred Python repositories.

The self-taught developer vol2

After its launch in 2014, freeCodeCamp became a household name in 2015 with the introduction of their free 1,800-hour-long full-stack developer curriculum.

The success could be attributed to its founder, Quincy Larson, who took a student-first approach from the start. He was a school director turned software developer. This unique background helped him see the inefficient routes that individuals had to take to learn code.

freeCodeCamp’s easy-to-follow curriculum was enriched with coding challenges, development projects, and contribution to open-source projects. In 2015 alone, people used freeCodeCamp for 37 million minutes in total.

Today, freeCodeCamp continues to be one of the top learning platforms with over 40,000 graduates since 2014.

Web development leaves the browser again

You thought that node-webkit was all that? Atom/electron gave a new boost to desktop applications in 2015. It was developed by GitHub to build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Nowadays, chances are good that you use one of the more popular apps running on Electron, such as Visual Studio Code, Facebook Messenger, Twitch, Slack, or InVision.

2016: the year React.js challenged Angular.js

React.js, a JavaScript library maintained by Facebook, took over the developer community by a storm. It not only challenged Angular but quickly de-throned it. React.js was praised for its flexibility and smart component-use.

Source: reactjs.org homepage screenshot

The self-taught developer vol3

Self-learning was in full blast by 2016, mostly thanks to freeCodeCamp. Let’s see the trends in quick snapshots:

freeCodeCamp was ranked #1 in most popular repositories for most of 2016
sindresorhus/awesome was loved for its lists about interesting topics
getify/You-Dont-Know-JS, a book series about JavaScript helped answer the burning questions of developers

2017: JavaScript never sleeps

2017 was the year Vue.js became the third big player next to Angular and React. Vue was created by Evan You. This is what he said about his framework:

The idea is that Vue is made up of this core which is just data binding and components, similar to React. It solves a very focused, limited set of problems. Compared to React, Vue puts a bit more focus on approachability. Making sure people who know basics such as: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS can pick it up as fast as possible.
Source: freeCodeCamp

Vue.js enjoyed a warm welcome with many praising it as an elegantly and intelligently designed software. The community is ever-growing with its yearly Vue.js conferences for the fans.

Also, machine learning

One word: TensorFlow. It was created by the Google Brain team and released for the public in 2015. It is a symbolic math library and is also used for machine learning applications such as neural networks.

Source: TensorFlow homepage screenshot

Its flexible architecture allowed for the easy deployment of computation across a variety of platforms (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs), and from desktops to clusters of servers to mobile and edge devices.

In short, TensorFlow had a big impact on the creation of large-scale machine learning frameworks. Its competitors to this day are PyTorch, Theano, and CNTK, and discussions are heated on whether there is a future for TensorFlow.

2018: the war between frameworks

Source: undraw.co

2018 was the year of all-out-war on which one is best: most notably, React, Angular, or Vue. Of course, it would be subjective to declare one as “best”, since they all offer different qualities.

John Woodruff, here at dev.to even pleaded the community to stop fighting at once. He said:

I’m personally over all the pundits proclaiming why one framework is better than another, or declaring a winner of the “framework war”. It is, in my opinion, a form of gatekeeping that we as a community don’t need. Why does there have to be a war? I would argue that there’s not, or at least shouldn’t be, a war. Especially in 2018, when React, Angular, Vue, Aurelia, etc. are all excellent modern frameworks with amazing reasons to use each.
Source: dev.to

If we want to put the numbers behind developers’ emotions, we can take a look at Stack Overflow’s 2018 study. Almost 70% of developers voted for React as the most “loved” framework. Angular stood at 54%.

At the end of the day, arguments and opinions will always be made. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as we can keep these discussions constructive towards advanced developers and welcoming towards newbies.

Microsoft’s big change of heart

This was a “from 0 to hero” story.

Microsoft always hated open source. In 2001, then-CEO Steve Ballmer called it “cancer.” A year earlier, he compared it to “communism.” Thankfully, they had run out of derogatory comments to throw around and probably had some self-reflection (to the better).

Today, they have the most popular open source IDE (Microsoft Visual Studio) and they are a part of the top three open-source contributor companies.

2019: the protest against the overwork of developers

Developers’ lives matter – this was the slogan of the 2019 protest that happened on GitHub.

A repository named 996.icu was created in support of developers’ health and work-life balance in China. 996 referred to working from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week. Several big Chinese internet companies have adopted this system as their official work schedule.

The original aim of the repository was to list the companies that use the 996 working hour system but it soon developed into a movement. As of April of 2019, the repository reached 200 thousand stars on GitHub, making it one of the most starred repos in the platform’s history.

Software engineers from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and others signed a letter of support for Chinese workers. The letter stated that the workers of Microsoft and GitHub “stand in solidarity with tech workers in China.”

In response, Chinese domestic browsers restricted access to the 996.icu repository on their web browsers, warning users that the repository contains illegal or malicious content.

The situation now? Unresolved. Not much has been covered on the topic since; especially with the arrival of COVID-19; it seems that the case got buried.

Take care of yourself

If you’re like most developers, you are glad to sit in front of a computer for hours on end and work on the next big thing. Oftentimes, your health comes second after finishing just one more thing. Let’s be honest here. There is always a thing.

Source: lizandmollie

Make sure to take appropriate breaks during your sprints (set up an alarm if needed). Aim to eat healthier. Get some exercise, and drink enough water. You know the spiel. But it’s time to actually include these things in your daily routine.

Conclusion

The development scene is exciting and ever-growing. When we feel like we have just reached the top of the mountain, another peak will appear in front of us.

Where do you think we’re headed in the next 10 years? Machine learning? Remote work? Tell us in the comments or on Twitter.