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> to find out that I'm running a microservice in a Docker Container and the changes I made on a mail template had no effect, when I send them, since I was working on local files A couple of decades of programming in, and I could still very easily make this mistake if I started working with Docker, because I’m not familiar with it. I would pick up on the problem much faster than you did, but that’s because I’ve trained my intuitions over the course of many years, not because I’m cleverer—through experience, I know that if a change doesn’t seem to take effect, it will be either that I touched the wrong thing (edited the wrong file, talked to the wrong server, ran the wrong program, whatever), or that there’s a cache in the way and I need to recompile something, restart something or clear some other kind of cache. You don’t yet have this experience. Persist, and you’ll pick it up over time. As a more personal suggestion from my own experiences: if you possibly can, find someone that seems to actively enjoy explaining things and get them to take you under their wing. Most people aren’t like that, but there are a few here and there; I’m one, and I love having people ask me things and getting to explain them to them, and watching them grow. (And if you’re an introvert and worried such a mentor will wear you down with extroversion: don’t worry, I don’t observe any correlation between extroversion and enjoying teaching.) |