sindresorhus / ama

[[I'm slow at replying these days, but I hope to get back to answering questions eventually]] Ask me anything!

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ama's Issues

What JavaScript code style guide do you use?

Which project you did in the begining of your career was a turning point in your life?

Which project you did in the starting of the career helped you to learn a lot of new stuffs and increased your bar significantly. I know it takes a developer a lot of projects to achieve the proficiency you are currently at. But there must be a project that was a turning point of your life.

What podcasts are you listening to and why?

Or don't you listen to podcasts? Interested if you had any interesting developer specific ones?

What's your favorite spider leg based dish?

What's up with the unicorns?

Why do you work on open source?

As opposed to building things for profit.

Do I need to learn DSA and DBMS ?

I'm a self-taught front-end developer. Currently interning at a startup working on a Data viz project using Angular and D3. I'm majoring in Chemical Engineering and I don't have strong CS background, other then JavaScript I've also learned Python. What will be your advice for someone like me who loves coding, wants to learn more and pursue career in front-end development.

In my leisure time I enjoy experimenting on CodePen

How profitable is it to mainly work on open source projects instead of working for a company with fixed income?

How did you meet Addy Osmani?

How do you pronounce your name?

What other languages do you code in?

Why don't you have a website?

how do you keep continuous learning ?

Do you read books ? read other developers code ? ..

When did you become interested in programming?

What type of shell do you use?

What do you need to improve upon as a programmer?

Similarly, do you have a method/process for improvement?

What are your thoughts on using npm (instead of bower) as a frontend dependency manager?

And using with Webpack or Browserify...

Favorite things and other personal questions

Let's see if I can really ask you anything. What's your phone number? What you do like to eat? Favorite television shows? Color of your underwear?

🍻

Do you think it's a good time to become a front-end developer?

What do you like most about @kevva?

@kevva

How do you balance your relationship with time spent on coding?

well, you asked for it: 7da3bcf

If the answer is yes, I may have some related follow-up questions.

One-line node modules

Lot of people don't get the benefits of one line modules, what would you say to those who tend to critic a lot about node modules that have just a line in them?

When would I meet you?

Holi, this time in India :) ?

Where do you get your ideas for so many open source projects?

Hey, @sindresorhus

The rate at which you pump out open-source modules is really inspiring. I was wondering, where do you get so many ideas for modules? Are these just modules that you happen to need, or do you go out of your way to find things to build?

Thanks!

What kind of music do you listen to?

What makes you decide when you add somebody to a repo/org?

I guess you have some criteria? 🍻

What is your dev environment?

What's your hardware and software that you use for coding?

What do you think about projects that give JavaScript strict typing?

Projects like TypeScript give JavaScript strict Typings so the codebase would be more maintainable. What's your opinion about them? Should they be native in JavaScript so the runtime can use them for faster execution?

Have you ever participated in a CTF contest?

Hey Sindre!
Have you ever participated in CTF (Capture The Flag) contest?

When are you coming to London?

@addyosmani and I are waiiiting! ⌚

How do you get so much done? 👏

It seems like every other package, plugin or library I use is done by you.

How do you get so much done? Are you paid to work on these open source projects? What is in that secret sindresorhus sauce?

Have you done any talks at conferences for the work you do?

If so, which one has been your favorite and why?

What hobbies do you have besides programming?

Like do you do sports or something like that?

How do you keep yourself updated on technology?

Why did you start splitting out the CLIs from your modules?

Just wondering what your thought process was behind the sudden change in style. For example, opn and opn-cli.

How many cats do you have?

Do you have a girlfriend?

Nothing in the readme stated I couldn't ask super personal questions 🍻

What was your biggest childhood fear?

Does open source bring you new long-term clients?

How did you meet your open source friends?

I see that you're doing much work together with some small group of people with a really similar mindset, such as @kevva @addyosmani and @arthurvr. You seem to be working together on all the things. How did you get to meet those?

What irritates you most of all in open source?

I saw you tweeting about trolling to you and someone else, stupid bug reports, @issuesfromhell, ...

but what irritates you the most?

Do you like dogs?

Do you have a day job?

Where/what do you do for work and how many hours do you do a week?

Are you attending any (JavaScript) conferences?

Which ones? Thanks and cheers 🍻

What do you think about startups?

What do you think about startups? Have you had any experience with startups?

How much do you sleep?

Or even, do you sleep generally?

Who are your programming heroes?

You're mine, but what people are you looking up to and why? Maybe because they write good code? Or simply because they're exceptional?

How old are you?

And how long have you been coding?

What do you think about TypeScript and Flow?

Star Trek or Star Wars?

These are the important questions.