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1/26/2023
16 : 14

What do the mass tech layoffs mean for you?

They certainly aren't a good thing, but it's not armageddon ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
1/20/2023
5 : 4

The week in tech 09/01/2023

This is the first of a weekly series in which I give you the most important and interesting posts in the tech world over the past week. It'll hit your inbox every Friday so you can read it whilst
1/20/2023
2 : 54

Is there really a pandemic of incompetent devs?

The worlds most popular coding challenge could be misleading ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
1/9/2023
17 : 24

ChatGPT can teach you how to code

ChatGPT can teach you JavaScript, and I'm going to show you how ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
6/12/2022
19 : 34

How to hunt down the best paid tech jobs

I've sometimes been quoted my salary on Twitter only to be told, in no uncertain terms, that dev jobs in London don't pay that much. Not only is this simply not true, it goes further: I'm
5/25/2022
16 : 14

Things are looking bad... What should devs do?

I don't want be a 'doomer' as many call them, but things aren't looking good. All across the western world, from the UK to the USA the economic situation is looking worse by the day.
11/26/2021
20 : 54

Tech interviews suck

I haven't been looking for work, but with the recent employment boom recruiters have contacted me with a few offers that were too good not to interview for. I didn't get any of these. I
10/7/2021
5 : 54

Welcome to the Well Paid Geek Newsletter

Welcome to the Well Paid Geek email newsletter. If you weren't expecting to have been signed up to this newsletter, feel free to click the unsub link at the bottom! If you were expecting it, read
10/7/2021
5 : 54

The simplest path to a Well Paid tech career in 2021

About a month ago now a wrote a Tweet that blew up quite nicely: ​ HTML & CSS => JavaScript => React => Get paid $$$ Although this sounds oversimplified, there is an important truth