Posts tagged #learning on Dynamo Geeks: 5 posts from the community, most useful first.
8 months ago i was making 400 bowls of pho a day. today i fixed my first memory leak (forgot to clear a setInterval lol). if youre thinking about switching careers, its hard but its doable. ok back to standup panic
making the pong game for @tomasz_k (long story) and im stuck on the borrow checker. i have a game struct with a list of entities and i want to update each one, but update needs to call a method on self struct Game { items: Vec<Entity>, score: u32, } impl Game { fn tick(&mut self) { for item in self.items.iter() { self.update(item); } } fn update(&mut self, item: &Entity) { // moves the item, maybe changes score } }…
so i finally got my first real feature (a filters panel for our admin dashboard) and opened the PR today. 34 comments. thirty four. some are tiny like naming, some are "this should be a custom hook", and one just says "lets talk about this" which sounds terrifying my senior is nice and none of the comments are mean. but i kind of feel like a fraud and now everyone can see it. in the kitchen if you messed up the chef…
Every weekend I mentor bootcamp graduates, and the number one thing that decides how fast they grow at their first job is not React or Python. It is how they ask for help. Some ask too early and never build the muscle. Most ask too late, after two days of silent suffering, because they are scared to look stupid. So here is the rule and the template I give them. Kindly steal it. The rule: 45 minutes, then ask…
