What I'd Learn If Starting Today: A No-Nonsense Dev Career Roadmap
The Hindsight of Two Decades
Twenty years in web development. Hundreds of projects. Dozens of technologies learned, mastered, and eventually discarded. If I could step into a time machine and talk to my younger self on day one, my advice wouldn’t be about the latest “hot” framework or a specific library. It would be about compound interest in knowledge.
The industry is noisier than ever. Every week, there’s a new “game-changing” tool that promises to make you 10x more productive. But here’s the cold truth: the most successful developers I know aren’t the ones who know the most frameworks; they are the ones who understand the fundamentals so deeply that they can pick up any framework in a weekend.