1/13/2024 0 Comments Gitify kyle simpsonIt just gets deeper and deeper and deeper. I think "how can I make this make sense to others?" As soon as I learn something, I write code to explain it, find a book or post to describe it in, and if I find something I didn't understand, branch off, and learn more, then start the cycle again. I'm an avid learner of things, and the best way to learn is to teach others. The best way to describe it: 50% of my time I spend teaching to pay bills, and 50% donating time to the FOSS community, to build awareness around the web platform and its technology with the theory of "all boats rise with the tide." The more people who learn and appreciate web tech, the more people will hire me to teach it to them. If my streak can encourage one person do one extra contribution, that's what it's all about. I currently have a 300+ day streak going on GitHub-not to show off-but to inspire others to do more, and more regularly, with FOSS contributions. I spend lots of time doing that, constantly on GitHub with commits and pull-requests flying everywhere. When not on the road doing that, I'm participating in the FOSS community-writing code, or writing blogs, or books. Those days I stand all day, and teach, and lecture, and walk people through exercises. On teaching days, I'm connecting with community, and teaching JS to make a living-mostly in a corporate workshop environment, or public workshops associated with conferences. I have two different kinds of days days where I speak/teach, and days where I do FOSS development. ![]() in the engineering track of Computer Science. ![]() I started at University of Oklahoma, then transferred to and graduated from Texas State University with a B.S. Now, I go back to Oklahoma to visit and see they have a fantastic community there, and I'm jealous! It's great to see! Where did you go to school? I moved to Austin because there wasn't much of a tech community in Oklahoma back in the 90s, and Austin was the nearest big tech hub. Started school in Oklahoma, but now based in Austin, Texas-since mid-way through college. eBook: An introduction to programming with Bash.Try for free: Red Hat Learning Subscription.
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