Comments by "" (@cabji) on "Aaron Jack" channel.

  1. Hey Aaron, nice video. I liked how you said the Uber app is actually a bunch of little apps all connected together via APIs, and that there's teams of developers working on each app. I'm pretty sure that mostly all people on this planet don't realize the sheer amount of time and mental effort that goes into creating software. My mind boggles when I think about things like operating systems and artificial intelligence and robotics and the amount of thought and trial and error that's gone through to date to have what we have so far. I really take my hat off to and appreciate the great minds that having built everything we have and take for granted. It's a dream of mine to contribute even something ½ a percent as great as all the big tech stuff we enjoy.
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  2. Possibly the best CSS resource I've come across in 20 years. Really helped me get an overview of how it is all supposed to go together.
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  3.  @jannusdomingo5681  maybe you were kidding... I can probably say I'm not. I remember when someone told me JS was the next big thing and I've idly tried to learn it since then. I think that was 2001.
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  4. because then you'd know the shortcuts... while you click 15,000 times.
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  5. throw it away. if you dwell on how something should work, you will never make it work. CSS is similar to programming in that there's "many ways to skin a cat" and this is true for a lot of things in all of life. You can achieve the same/very similar results in many different ways in the code. The only way you work it all out is by practicing and building stuff. Spend more time in actual practice.
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  6. Hey Aaron, I officially "liked" this video. Your point about growth mindset jumped out at me. Focus on how you are improving, not on how much you already know. The hard part I find is doing this down at a weekly or daily basis. I've been self teaching myself programming since 1996. It took me 20 years before I started a project for myself that has actually been something tangible that I use all the time now. Now I really just struggle to find enough time to sit down and learn more each day. Anyway, enough rambling and thanks for the video! I find your content very relevant to my situation or mindset. PS: I also did tutorial treadmill for years (decades?) and always found that I'd get to point where I felt I just wasn't "getting it" or that the tutorial was just telling me something I already knew. I found I really had to sit down and just start a project and literally try things, get errors, look up reference docs, read them over and over, change code, fix errors, repeat. Eventually I learned concepts that I feel are far more relevant to programming than what the tutorials teach by default. Tutorials seem to teach mostly semantics and syntax. I feel like there needs to be more beginner tutorials that talk about how event driven programs work, how to imagine what an event is, what a handler is etc. When you understand those things, it makes creating a modern program a lot easier.
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  7. I liked how when it hit 100% it started to say "ERROR" but then the scene cut.
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  8. Nice vid Aaron. My wife wants a new business selling stuff from a website, so I'm going to take a look at Shopify. I'll be keeping her happy as well as learning about Shopify, which is what you're saying devs kinda need to do.
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  9. aaron jack does in a a day what would take me 3 years to learn, and that would just be me finding the packages i need to download.
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  10. Yeah that would be interesting to know. I love to write code, but I have to do 40ish hours a week working most weeks. My biggest project took me 2 years to write, and it's clunky as I learnt as I went, and it took me 20 years to self teach myself to get it that far. I don't know how these guys do this stuff in a few months or years. I think they are some how exceptional compared to most people.
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  11. why do you say "for the next 8 years"?
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  12. get a stylus aaron.
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  13. Ppl used to complain about the focus on the video. Now it's kind of like a trademark of Aaron Jack videos. Keep the blurry bits!
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  14. Might but shares in a ringed notebook company because you're going through them doing these videos
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  15. and then there's me. i like to call myself a "hack". because it took me 20 years of hacking away through reference manuals etc. to learn everything i know so far.
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  16. I first used Linux in 1999. Red Hat 5.1. I learned a lot of stuff from those days that I still use today, mostly CLI and running servers etc. It's all useful if you want to run a website or use a VPS because usually the option there is Linux based. For me, for an everyday working computer or a household computer Linux just became too problematic. Eventually I just decided Windows was more use friendly, especially since it improved in stability compared to the windows 95, 98 and vista days.
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