James M Snell - System Engineer at CloudFlare

Talking Points: Building tools developers use Learning a new codebase The viability of open source careers What makes a good team member Avoiding burn out Quotable Quotes: “Every line of code you change is going to have an impact somewhere and it's going to impact someone.” - JS “The amount of knowledge you have...will never define you, it's how you apply it, it’s how you recover from mistakes.” - JS “[How to learn faster] Figuring out what you don't know and knowing how to quickly identify the gaps in your own knowledge.” - JS “I don't mind helping...but I also want to see you putting in the effort yourself to figure it out.” - JS “[Learning new code bases] I fiddle and break things, and then figure out what broke.” - JS “If you're just spending all your time looking at code and thinking about code, you will burn out very quickly.” - JS “The people that I enjoy working with the most take a very humble approach to the code they write.” - JS Notes: James’ Twitter James’ Github Junior to Senior Community community.juniortosenior.io

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James M Snell - System Engineer at CloudFlare is an episode from Junior to Senior with David Guttman by David Guttman.

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This episode was published on Sep 13, 2021.

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