Jeffrey Way started a new blog on Laracasts and has just published his first post, and it’s a great one.
This part really stuck out to me:
But with a screencast, even if I didn’t understand every line of code that the host wrote, I was still picking up countless little tips and tricks. The sorts of tricks that simply can’t be conveyed by a book.
Which editor does this person use? How do they use Git in their workflow? How were they able to browse to that method so quickly? Oh, I didn’t know that you could use that syntax!
I was actually thinking about this a few days back. Being a remote worker I loose out on looking over my co-workers shoulder and picking up neat tricks. I guarantee my co-workers use lots tools and shortcuts that will blow my mind.
Of course I agree with the rest of the post too. Web development has a vicious learning cycle that never ends. At some point it has to stable out and slow down, but that may not happen until after I retire.
