What do you want to build?
Anyone and everyone can build something. The first step though is to decide what you want to make. It could be as simple or complex as needed to achieve what you want. It could be mechanical, cosplay, baking: anything your mind can make up!
Once you have an idea, start jotting down what you want to do and figure out your process. I’m going to talk through what I do when I decide to build something so hopefully you can get some ideas for yourself.
TIP: if you get stuck at this step or…
Not very many are going to understand this unless they’ve worked at a startup or at a company that pushes their workers to get code working with very little testing. The “poop” variable in coding is very funny and very real. I personally started using this out of anger and i know other programmers have done the same. Several companies ago I was pushed to build something per customer expectations. So I did. I built the thing that was needed, and I handed out the URLs to our PM to let the customer review. I later came to find out…
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