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Jovan Cicmil

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I'm looking to hire a junior developer with at least 15 years of experience in Javascript, PHP, Python, and Selenium.

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"This startup is valued at $2,000,000,000 because of their choice of Javascript framework" - nobody, ever, in any timeline

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Seeking senior web3 developer. Must have at least 7 weeks of experience.

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No-code is a religion at this point. Look. I do software dev for a living. I *prefer* to do things in the most convenient way possible. But not a single web app I built in the last two years could be built with no-code. Why do people get angry when I tell them this?

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3 years

Why are 90% of tech Twitter folks focused on front-end work?

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3 years

High school taught me the intestinal systems of tapeworms, but not HTML. Let that sink in.

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2 years

How children disappoint their parents: 1980: I wanna be a rock star, man 1990: I wanna be a metal star, dude 2000: I wanna be a rap star, bruh 2010: I wanna be a gamer, bro 2021: I wanna be an open source developer

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Account with 500 followers: *tweets the smartest thing I've seen all week* 2 likes, 0 retweets, 0 comments Account with 100k followers: Javascript suckz lol 800 likes, 300 retweets, 200 comments

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I've been a software developer for over a decade. I've never taken part in a hackathon. Am I the weird one?

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@CicmilJovan

3 years

Can you explain recursion without resorting to tech terminology or Google? I think this is a fun exercise for new software developers. #100DaysOfCode

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3 years

Software developers, how much coffee do you drink per day? I'm at 2-3 cups, usually espresso or macchiato.

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2 years

How about we all agree to use the same size of screen forever so we can finally get rid of responsive CSS?

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Jovan Cicmil

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3 months

I've made good money on Upwork. Then I made better money off Upwork. The medium doesn't matter. Follow me to learn the foundational freelancing skills that make you truly unstoppable.

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

3 years

Typescript is just Javascript for people who hate freedom.

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3 years

My biggest struggle as a self-taught web developer was UI/UX. I've since learned a lot of best practices that us non-visual types should always keep in mind. Here are a few: 🧵

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3 years

"Do what you love" is incomplete advice. "Do something you love that also makes a ton of money" is much better. #100DaysOfCode

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3 years

What's stopping you from building a product that will make you millions?

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3 years

Quitting programming because you think AI will take your job is like throwing away your driver's license because self-driving cars exist.

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2 years

@elonmusk How is this real life?

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3 years

You don't have to be smart to be a programmer. You also don't have to be tall to play in the NBA, but it damn sure helps.

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3 years

Tech influencers in a nutshell: "Six months ago I couldn't write a single line of code! Today, I still can't write a single line of code, but I've got a folder of Javascript memes you wouldn't believe. Like, share & subscribe."

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Jovan Cicmil

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2 years

@SullyBusiness For $2,000 I can literaly fly anywhere in the world, sign a document, eat a steak dinner, and fly back home

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Call me crazy but I don't think a guy who moves to Indonesia to live off $200/month and build a shitty version of enterprise software is a great role model

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1 year

Why is 95% of tech Twitter focused on front-end work?

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1 year

I'm more impressed by the guy making $30k/year as a bootstrapped startup founder than by the guy making $200k/year with his master's degree.

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Jovan Cicmil

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3 years

When I started freelancing, jQuery was the most popular thing in the Javascript world. When you asked Javascript questions on StackOverflow, people answered in jQuery even when you asked them not to. jQuery was supposed to last forever. This is a lesson about current tech.

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1 year

Junior dev: I'm building a bicycle! Tech bro on Twitter: where's the engine? Junior dev: what engine? It's a bicycle. Tech bro: yeah but it might be a car in the future. also we need it to work underwater. Just let people build bicycles.

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1 year

Name a framework with better documentation than Laravel. I'll wait.

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1 year

I don't know a single person who was a full-time freelancer and then went back to a 9-to-5 job.

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2 years

@GuiTrajano We have volunteer positions for inexperienced folks like you

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1 year

The most important question for choosing a career in the next decade: What can't AI do?

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Jovan Cicmil

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2 years

@DiamondJackski Not sure. Did you also make php? That would help your chances somewhat

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Jovan Cicmil

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3 years

Two tweets by the same person in the same week: 1: "The Pragmatic Programmer is outdated, here's a list of better resources" 2: Day 39 of 100daysofcode: today I learned about... I just can't.

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Jovan Cicmil

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3 years

What is the more valuable skill for a solo startup founder: coding or community building?

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

3 months

I've had over 60 clients on Upwork. Then I had bigger and better clients off Upwork. The platform isn't important. Foundational skills are.

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@CicmilJovan

3 years

Twitter hack, used by many "growth experts": 1) buy 15k followers 2) promote your posts to gain 2-3k real followers 3) tweet generic "wisdom" all day 4) use the social proof of 18k+ followers to... 5) grow to 50k+ 6) sell your magical growth formula (lie) You know who you are.

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1 year

@hellobasak Did you just turn laundry into a microservice architecture?

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

3 years

Stop copying other people's coding tweets. Copy other people's code like a normal person. #100DaysOfCode

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

9 months

@DaveyHert Huge coincidence, I published a story about this exact thing this morning!

The Elephant in the Room: Where You’re From Matters

Like it or not, freelance clients will judge you based on your country/region

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

1 year

If your writing can be replaced by ChatGPT without anyone noticing, your writing sucks.

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

3 years

Twitter: Learn Javascript, it's all you need to be a full-stack dev! Reality: Good luck doing anything useful in the real world with Javascript without knowing CSS, Git, Linux, databases, and either a strong mentor or superb soft skills.

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Jovan Cicmil

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2 years

What do you do to maintain your health? Especially if you spend 8+ hours per day looking at a computer screen.

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

11 months

I don't hire people who dye their hair into weird colors. It's not perfect but it's a pretty good heuristic for unpredictable and self-centered behavior.

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1 year

I've never once found a customer support chat bot helpful. I have no idea why those things exist at all.

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

2 years

Wanna sound smart as a web developer without contributing anything? Try these three simple sentences: 1) Yeah but will it scale? 2) Maybe we should migrate to the cloud. 3) It depends on a lot of factors.

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

3 years

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 I have published my first book! The Unstoppable Freelancer is now available on @gumroad :

The Unstoppable Freelancer

Want a free preview?Click here.What will you learn?How do you find work?How do you pick the right projects?How should you communicate with your clients?How should you price projects and increase yo...

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@CicmilJovan

2 years

The "this tweet thread can replace a 4-year degree" crowd needs to tone it down a bit

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@CicmilJovan

2 years

This dude had a meltdown in my DMs because I used the word 'disconcerting' in a tweet. Imagine being this opposed to learning new words.

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Jovan Cicmil

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3 years

I have been coding for 10 years. I have never once had a dream about writing code or solving bugs. Am I the only one?

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Jovan Cicmil

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2 years

@tamalweb At least 4 centuries actually.

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Jovan Cicmil

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2 years

Name a better $100 investment, I dare you.

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3 years

Daily common sense tip #80 : Rehashing @naval quotes is not a sustainable growth strategy.

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1 year

Am I being rude here? I'm sick and tired of people I've never met trying to schedule calls with me.

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3 years

Me: 10 years freelancing, built and sold a company, wrote a book about freelancing. A literal child in my DMs: "hey, I noticed you're struggling to get your career off the ground, I wrote this ebook to help people like you." Twitter is surreal.

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@CicmilJovan

1 year

Don't work for people who make you work weekends.

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"I want to earn $100k freelancing next year." "Here's a $13 course telling you how." "Erm, can't I get that for free?" You will never, ever succeed at anything with this mentality. 🧵

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2 years

Why does every book about marketing say it's the only book about marketing you'll ever need to read?

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3 years

@danidonovan @ChrisWiegman I can't wait for the sequel about how he made his first billion: - mindfulness - optimism - open-mindedness - $1b government subsidy - keto diet

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@TheJackForge My dad has always called these occupations "the real engineers" 😅

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2 years

This is why you can't have nice things.

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1 year

I've never met anyone who went back from freelancing to a 9-to-5 office job. Except to run their own companies.

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3 years

Is a child's IQ a good indicator of future success? If not, what is better?

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1 year

Hiring! Position: senior ChatGPT prompt engineer Requirements: - at least 4 days of experience - at least two free courses watched - $20

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1 year

If you can make a website, you can be your own boss.

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Jovan Cicmil

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3 years

What would you do if you had $100,000,000?

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3 years

If you're a great employee, your boss might give you a 10% bonus. If you're a great freelancer, you might give yourself a 200% raise tomorrow.

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Jovan Cicmil

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2 years

@sveta_bay There really isn't. There's a growing number of no-code solutions out there for sure, but it's very far from covering everything. And it never will probably because people will always have new ideas.

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

2 years

In 2015, I made more money on Upwork in a single year than I would have made working locally, full-time, for 5 years. There's a lot of talk about Upwork clients being cheap etc. All excuses. You can filter the cheap ones in 30 seconds.

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Jovan Cicmil

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10 months

What is the rationale for moving from Twitter to a Twitter clone where you have to start from scratch? I honestly don't get it.

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3 years

@GyenAbubakar This tweet should be mandatory reading. Most people can't wait to have an excuse not to accomplish something. Great going man!

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2 years

@GergelyOrosz Elon is a long-time adversary of remote work. He was making comments along those lines in his other companies as soon as Covid lockdowns ended in 2020.

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

3 years

Did you ever find a job/project/client through Twitter?

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3 years

What's the strangest part of Twitter to you? To me, it's the part where single 20-something guys give life advice and 35 year olds with children and mortgages try to apply it.

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Jovan Cicmil

@CicmilJovan

2 years

Remind me again, why would you build a landing page from scratch when you can buy a perfectly good landing theme for like $14?

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@CicmilJovan

3 years

Twitter guys, after earning $80 online: HOW TO BECOME WEALTHY AND LIVE YOUR DREAM LIFE 📢🌟💪😎🧵

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@CicmilJovan

2 years

You don't need a Macbook. You don't need a giant screen. You don't need a mechanical keyboard. All of those things are nice, but they don't make a good software developer. Dedication and open-mindedness make a good software developer.

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Jovan Cicmil

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3 years

Dear senior developers from major companies, It's a bad look to ridicule code written by a solo dev with no support and no guidance, on a tiny budget and a tight deadline. You're basically bullying a self-starter kid from a poor country who's making the most of what he's got.

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1 year

Would you give up your coding skills for an extra 10cm of height?

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8 months

@flaviocopes I wish more tech influencers would remove popular tech from their stacks just so I can watch the meltdown

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3 years

Money Twitter: I make millions by daytrading, get on my level. Also money Twitter: please buy my ebook, I'm dropping the price from $785 to $8.99 for the next 7.5 people who retweet this and say they like me.

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1 year

I've been writing code for 11 years. Yesterday, I spent two hours debugging a file upload form.

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3 years

What freelance services do you offer? Let us know below and let's hire each other if we can.

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3 years

They say controversy drives engagement. PHP > Python

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6 months

@Cokedupoptions Being born into wealth is a hack for being wealthy. Few know this

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3 years

Have you ever been offered a job through social media?

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3 years

I made this immaculate illustration just for you.

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@dhh Hey now, why did I get so much hate for this then

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Typescript is just Javascript for people who hate freedom.

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2 years

@PocketProgram Oh yeah, that's another thing. "No code" just means *you* don't have to code. Which is often convenient, but it doesn't remove the liabilities of buggy underlying code, 3rd party tools, outdated libraries, and so on.

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6 months

@VCBrags Plot twist: he was on a date amd he was the half of the table that left

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1 year

@wtravishubbard No we're not. Take me for example. I'll make an estimate and then make it more accurate by multiplying it with a random number between 2 and 5.

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1 year

If you lost your biggest income stream tomorrow, how screwed would you be?

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2 years

In technical job interviews, who do you think does better? 1) excellent programmer, decent communicator 2) excellent communicator, decent programmer My money is always - always - on the latter.

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3 years

What's stopping you from starting your own company?

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@DThompsonDev I ok it without a word and go on vacation obviously

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3 years

Do software developers still dream about working for FAANG companies?

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Jovan Cicmil

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1 year

Is a personal blog worth writing anymore? An average Medium post (for me) takes two hours to write and gathers a few thousand impressions. In that time, I can fire off like 50 tweets, get 100k impressions, and get a few book sales.

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Jovan Cicmil

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1 year

I find a single 30-minute meeting more tiring than 4 hours of good solid work.

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Jovan Cicmil

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2 years

Received an offer from a startup that included swag, company culture, and mission, but no mention of salary. Literally trying to buy me off with a hoodie and some pencils

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Jovan Cicmil

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2 years

Banks would rather give a loan to an office employee making $30k/year than to a freelancer making $130k/year. Whoever disrupts this nonsense is gonna do really well.

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