5 Steps To Become a Better Software Developer

Programming can be fun! Especially when looking at the back of a monitor. Obviously produced by the incredible and amazing AI tool — chatjeepeetee

I assume if you are reading this that you are a developer of some sorts or maybe you are interested in becoming one. Either way, wherever you are along the never ending journey to coding mastery there is always room to improve and improve we must! (For what else are we to do with our finite days on this pale blue dot spinning around our giant blazing star?)

Therefore in this article I would like to go through 5 of the habits and ideas I have used over the years that have helped me become a better developer and more importantly — a better person.

Find Your Niche

I love the phrase ‘A jack of all trades and a master of none’. I don’t really know why but probably because it resinates with a strong belief that I hold — That mastery is the ultimate goal for any man.

A jack of all trades suggests one spreads themselves too thin. That they haven’t gone into any depth on something. That they are loitering around the edge of many things without committing anything of substance to one particular thing. For me this is not a good trait and something I want to avoid in my life.

By sticking to one thing you are able to go deep and with depth comes the best learnings.