How to Constantly Upskill Yourself

Hangout in Forums & Communities

  • Choose a community with which you can resonate. By community, we mean a collection of self-motivated developers/engineers/programmers. You are already in the right place 😉.
  • Read and watch what people are asking and discussing.
  • A good example is reading questions on stackoverflow or Software Engineering - StackExchange.
  • Join programming-related subreddits (Reddit is the best place for software folks after Stack Overflow). If you like JavaScript, find subreddits related to JavaScript and join them.

Write Code & Create Software Projects

  • This has been asked and repeated thousands of times by everyone on the internet: Just build stuff!
  • Learn how to contribute to FOSS if you don't have your own ideas to build.
  • Constantly learning new stuff is useless if you can't apply those new techniques.

Write about what you learn

  • No matter how small things are, if they are forgettable (and most things in software are), then log them somewhere.
  • Build a notes site just for yourself; it doesn't need to be fancy. Open a text file, write about what you learned, and store it in a git repo or in Google Docs.
  • Optionally, you can choose to share your knowledge with the rest of the world via blogs.

Where to find interesting stuff?

Read Newsletters

Listen to Podcasts

Attend/Watch Conferences

 

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