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Jan 11, 2023 โ€ข 11 tweets โ€ข 2 min read
90% of new developers make these mistakes ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡:

[Bonus: with tips on how to avoid them] 1โƒฃ Introducing yourself as an 'aspiring' developer:

Most devs write aspiring dev in their bios which makes perfect sense but not when you're applying somewhere.

For recruiters, it's a sign that you're still in your learning phase.
Sep 19, 2021 โ€ข 13 tweets โ€ข 5 min read
1โƒฃ0โƒฃ Really Common Mistakes By Aspiring Developers:

โš ๏ธ 90% of Newbies Repeat these!
๐Ÿ”ฅ If you avoid them, you're really gonna excel in your career.

---- A Thread ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ---- 1โƒฃ NOT knowing how to Google:

How to use Google effectively to search your queries is a really underrated skill.

Most of the new devs struggle with it.

Here's a really good thread by @saviomartin7.

Give it a read:
Feb 4, 2021 โ€ข 4 tweets โ€ข 2 min read
1/ ๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿค– ๐Ÿ“ˆ How to approach a Machine Learning problem?

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TIPS:

โ—‰ Start with the simplest models

โ—‰ Identify the patterns from data

โ—‰ Let the data speak

โ—‰ Don't force data to cry 2/ โ—‰ Spend most of your time in EDA, preprocessing, and feature engineering

โ—‰ Choose the tech stack with which you are more familiar

โ—‰ Try to involve people with domain expertise.

โ—‰ Visualize your data. It helps a lot in understanding the patterns.
May 12, 2020 โ€ข 6 tweets โ€ข 5 min read
JAVASCRIPT ON EMBEDDED DEVICES

Case Study: Svelte

(1) - Svelte is used for POS systems in Brazil. Roughly 200,000 POS devices are currently in the cities of Brazil. The device runs a very outdated WebKit on extremely memory-constraint hardware.

@sveltejs @SvelteSociety (2) - They tried different frameworks. None of them could be used because when you press a button, it responded half a second later. Of course, users would be more likely to press it twice and may end up overcharging the customer. But when they tried Svelte, it worked smoothly.