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Wanna learn something? Recreate it

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In the past few years I embraced the mantra “Wanna learn something? Recreate it”.

What do I mean by it?

Here some examples:

  1. I wanted to better understand how a static site generator (SSG) worked, so I created devblog, and even converted this very site to be compatible with it

  2. Are you easily stunned by charts, real-time updates, and perhaps crypto (oops, I said it)? Recreated (in part) the Coinbase Trading UI and that’s how I got into Elixir and landed my first job where I daily used Elixir. That’s fucking awesome, I think

  3. When in my team we were frequently using Trello, I had quite some fun creating libs around Trello that suited my personal needs

  4. At some point in my career I had to deal with scraping product reviews from popular shops, and do it reliably. After evaluating various techniques and tools, for some part of the scraping we were using mega-scraper and bull-dashboard

I learned the most by diving deep into a certain topic, almost like a maniac, and produced something as an output. If it’s public and dirty, no need to be ashamed.

Found out about an awesome repo with countless examples of building recreating stuff from scratch:

build-your-own-x

Here, have a slice of pizza 🍕