Behind Confident Code

The site is a product of a new year's resolution I made in 2017. And FINALLY, it is live! The blog will mainly be my personal journal where I write about my experiences in the tech world. Experiences both as a hobby developer, but also as a tech professional.

I wanted a place where I can document my progress as a developer and improve my writing. In time confident code will also serve the purpose of a lookup tool. I do not write for anyone but myself, but I do know that I improve the stickiness of my learning by writing about it. Writing is one thing, but also thinking about what I did and writing up a small guide that I can reference later, hopefully, helps me in the long run. It might even improve my communication skills. If a post, guide, or resource I make can help someone solve a problem they are facing, then it is a double bonus.

About me

I am Charli, a tech professional located in Denmark. I am by no means a good developer. I don't even write code for a living. I do think that it is important to know how everything works under the hood. So my passion for programming is moved by curiosity.
During my tech career, I've had jobs as an IT project manager, on the contractor side. I have worked as a developer, mainly freelance. I have even done some teaching too. My current job is some kind of hybrid, where I in a CTO position take on several different roles. I am in charge of operations, but it only takes up 20%-30% of my daily work. I spend a lot of time on data analysis, business development, IT security, and general innovation. One of my KPIs, when I started this job, was to turn the company in a more data-driven direction. I follow the data analyst area closely and try to develop my skills further. Hopefully, I get the time to take a deeper dive into Machine Learning as a developer and not only a consumer.

Site structure and content

The site is divided into three parts; blog, guides, and resources. The main topics are of course tech and programming. The main focus will be on ruby and ruby on rails, but I hope to get time to take some deep dives into other topics, like react, node js, and vue. Maybe even native app development.

The blog part will contain blog posts where the topics will vary.
They will usually either document some learning progress, discuss a problem, or just be plain philosophical about something that takes up space in my head. It could be thoughts about "how to tackle the imposter syndrome". Or "bridging the tutorial / junior-developer gap".

The guides are small "how to" guides that I mainly create for myself. An example could be "How to set up a custom domain with Heroku, Namecheap, and Cloudflare." Simply a step-by-step guide on how to do stuff. I will use it as a reference tool for myself and if you find a guide useful, then I am just happy.
If you face a problem that is giving you a headache, feel free to write me and I'll try to make a guide about that.

Last is the resource part. It contains a list and sometimes a review of good resources I meet on my way. Giving credit to all the people who contribute to the community is always a good idea. It has never been easier to learn to code than it is right now.

How is it made

The site is built in ruby on rails. I enjoy ruby programming and the rails framework is a perfect fit for me.

When you look at the design, you might think that I don't have a bright future as a designer. You might also judge me based on grammar and typos if you read my writing. Side projects are way too often stranded midway through an endless quest to reach perfection.
I don't want blog posts, designs, or anything else to be perfect.

I do worry about load speed, SEO, and general optimization. So you will see a guide under the guides section on how to optimize your rails app. That goes for load-time, SEO, and general best practices.