New Dev, Old Codebase: A Series of Mentorship Stories

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Mentorship shows concrete wins: a junior turns a few-hundred-euro support role into a long-term dev relationship and 15 years of career growth, community programs like Rails Girls Summer of Code pay stipends and onboard contributors, and running bootcamps (Bad Website Club) plus pairing on GitHub fixes real issues. Advice includes using guided questions instead of blunt fixes, teaching localization interpolation to avoid brittle string concatenation, pointing to tools (Directus, regex crossword, CSS Diner, Vim Adventures), and pacing to avoid burnout.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 6:23Mentorship in tech
3. 13:48Mentoring vs teaching
4. 21:58Core mentorship skills
5. 28:44Learning through curiosity
6. 35:51Mentorship and self-care
7. 37:36Finding mentors
8. 39:01Closing thoughts

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