Getting Started
Welcome!
My name is Ben Carpenter. I am a software engineer and have been for the past 7 years. I was encouraged by a podcaster, Jonathan Cutrell (Developer Tea), to start a blog and post once a week. The intent is to start building a brand, find my voice, and potentially even help people by sharing ideas that they find useful.
Recently, I was inspired to become much better as a developer. I would like to be highly skilled at turning creative ideas into working products that will do a lot of good for people. Two things I've started doing as first steps toward that goal:
1. Listening to a developer podcast (the aforementioned "Developer Tea") on my way home from work. Thus far, it has helped me by giving some direction on how to start leveling up my coding ability. It has also helped me to get excited about leveling up my coding ability and the things that improved ability can help me to do.
2. Take time each morning to do some sort of training. So far, this has amounted to getting back to the JavaScript30 course I started several months ago and then suddenly didn't have time for anymore. And, as of today, blogging. I'm currently accomplishing this by waking up 30 minutes earlier, which sets me back to about 6.5 hours of sleep every night. It was a rough couple of days when I started, and my brain didn't like it, but I feel at this point, it's finally given in and decided to just work with it.
Yeah. That seems good for a start. My daughter should be waking up any minute now, so I'll bid you adieu. Thanks for reading.
My name is Ben Carpenter. I am a software engineer and have been for the past 7 years. I was encouraged by a podcaster, Jonathan Cutrell (Developer Tea), to start a blog and post once a week. The intent is to start building a brand, find my voice, and potentially even help people by sharing ideas that they find useful.
Recently, I was inspired to become much better as a developer. I would like to be highly skilled at turning creative ideas into working products that will do a lot of good for people. Two things I've started doing as first steps toward that goal:
1. Listening to a developer podcast (the aforementioned "Developer Tea") on my way home from work. Thus far, it has helped me by giving some direction on how to start leveling up my coding ability. It has also helped me to get excited about leveling up my coding ability and the things that improved ability can help me to do.
2. Take time each morning to do some sort of training. So far, this has amounted to getting back to the JavaScript30 course I started several months ago and then suddenly didn't have time for anymore. And, as of today, blogging. I'm currently accomplishing this by waking up 30 minutes earlier, which sets me back to about 6.5 hours of sleep every night. It was a rough couple of days when I started, and my brain didn't like it, but I feel at this point, it's finally given in and decided to just work with it.
Yeah. That seems good for a start. My daughter should be waking up any minute now, so I'll bid you adieu. Thanks for reading.
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