Hitchhikers Guide to Growing Your Tech Skills

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Argues that full expertise isn’t required to benefit: adopts targeted slices of large topics, not exhaustive study. Replaces manual UI checks with unit and integration tests to get immediate value; installs a Docker image of SQL Server on a Mac to learn containers without doing full DevOps; switches to Visual Studio Code to debug Node quickly. Learns DDD’s bounded context just enough to carve large EF models into manageable pieces. Emphasizes incremental practice and asking the community when stuck.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:43decades change
3. 27:38Me & NodeJS (also the Baltic Sea)
4. 38:06bounded context

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