The ACTUAL Way to Code Productively & Professionally

I want to tell you how to be a more efficient software developer. Now, my “Why I Code for 4 Hours” video touches on the broader spectrum of how I am able improve efficiency in life that drips into my work as a software developer. This video is to get into the nitty-gritty details that are specific to developers, like taking time to master your IDE, refactoring your code, not over-engineering your solutions or reinventing the wheel, having a set of coding standards and style guidelines that you stick by, or even something as simple as learning keyboard shortcuts. Now, many of these things may take some time to accomplish up-front, but you have to weigh the time savings. You’ll find the long-term gain heavily outweighs the short-term loss.
This is what I implore you to do. Become an efficient programmer by following the things laid out in this video. You won’t be able to implement everything all at once. But pick one or two and start. Then pick up another few when you feel confident you’ve accomplished and can maintain the prior two. A comment with something you learned here today that maybe you’ll start implementing tomorrow will be greatly appreciated. Enjoy!
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[@vivekbhakhri735]

Short version: 1. Flow and learn the good practice's and style guides. 2. Learn IDE shortcuts and install plugins according to your work flow (he hasn't mentioned even one plugin in this video). 3. See how others have done the thing and don't spend doing it from scratch. Nothing new here a lot of videos are already created like these, wasted my 12mins (9 in video and 3m writing this comment ) Hope saved a little for you 😉😉

[@MrSnowmobilefreak]

you're the goat

[@ericsaravia9850]

Hey Forrest, firstly I would like to thank you for these videos. Secondly, I’d say I learned how important it is to have my code structured and organized in a manner that will allow for readability and reusability. I also now will look into what API is, and try to familiarize myself with the IDEs better.

[@hannibalm090009]

great video, I'm actually updating my dev Lifecycle and adding new habits along with removing some bad ones (like writing everything myself). Will try the techniques and will let you know

[@Archartugan]

More knowledge about tests is welcome. Best Łukasz

[@MrFive197]

thank you for his video ,it was relly helpful ,i have been wanting to learn about design patterns

[@Marco-dr2on]

Hyped about the video on testing 🤟

[@AndrewErwin73]

I like that you mentioned learning your IDE. With all the arguments that arise about VS Code vs vim vs whatever else... the real point is how well you know how to use the IDE that you choose.

[@bdinh3130]

There's always vscode with vim bindings. And with all the plugins now for vim and neovim you can easilly run into a situation where you are just as bogged down in vim/neovim as you might be in vscode. The only thing i'll say is vim/neovim has a steeper learning curve that allows you to curtail these issues if you know what you are doing (lazy loading, fzf, ctags, etc.). But if you don't want to invest the time and just want to code vscode with vim bindings if you want is fine enough. Honestly the main reason to use vim imo is how seamless it is to interact with your terminal. Cause it is a terminal program. You can configure an IDE to do all the same things, start up servers, connect to databases, ssh, etc. But it just isn't as seamless and you don't have as granular of control obviously. Not to mention having a scripting language like bash or zsh to let you automate certain things. So really, if you aren't on a linux system or don't want to familiarize yourself with that, then there is even less reason to use vim/neovim.

[@AndrewErwin73]

@@bdinh3130 I don't disagree with any of that! It is a matter of preference, and you are exactly right, there isn't too much (that I can tell) that you can do in one that you can't do in the other. The point is to learn it! I think the trap people fall into (possibly part of your point) is that they think one is "better" or "easier" or whatever...but whichever you choose, you will be a more efficient programmer if you know all of the features. So, I guess the point is to use the one that you have the better time learning and even mastering.

[@JuanmaGuerrero]

I also want to know which keayboard is that you're using ^__^ looks pretty cool!

[@XaVieRuniversaL]

hey @ForrestKnight, I would like to see a video in which you do indeed go over API's. That can be very useful.

[@szmr]

Yeah the refactor guru is a good site, haven’t used it in a while so thank you for the reminder

[@johanngambolputty5351]

I have recently moved to astro nvim, used vscodium, atom, spyder, codeblocks, kate in the past and only just finally realised that nowadays at least, at the end of the day, the main thing I care about, highlighting and suggestions, is all handled by the same lsps in the background regardless of what editor you use... Agreeable defaults (covers most of what you personally want), ease of configuration and modularity is all that matters really (but ceases to matter as much once you're familiar with something and already does all you need it to). For me, using multiple accounts on multiple machines, being able to synchronise those configs is also good. At this point I'm just a bit of a javascript/electron/json hater and like that my editor is no longer built on that, why do I need web stuff when all I'm trying to is edit some text? Nvim and its extensions also just feels way more transparent, but again, maybe I just prefer lua over javascript. I like to open and close my text editor frequently on different files, so its nice that it can do that snappily now. Also wasn't willing to put up with microshaft telemetry in vscode but vscodium doesn't package some default extensions like the intellij c extension because of the licence and the didn't have luck getting the other extensions to work (so you end up manually installing the original extension), it genuinely was easier to set in vim... Kinda annoyed that nvim has been around since 91, does everything I need it to and I've wasted so much time with shinier newfangled options that did less...

[@sootynemm]

if you didn't watch this video on 2x speed you're doing it wrong

[@servantofthelord8147]

SAME! LOL

[@abhisheksingh-np8yi]

Attention rate go brrrrr

[@moustafa6006]

1.5x is already too much 😂

[@Mouafishingthings]

We need a video for testing your apis!!!

[@smitkapse8069]

Why do we specify "std" namespace when header file iostream have definition of "cout" function?

[@captainkilos]

What keyboard is that?

[@ElPoderDeLaR]

does somebody know any plugin for refactoring help?

[@aminamoudjar4561]

thank you!

[@Sharp931]

I only used simple linters.

[@ikarosouza]

What I'm learning nowadays is that if the standards put in place on the codebase you're working on are shit, it's better no to use them. For example: create 3 files for 3 different components even if components B and C will only be used by component A and all of them are simples, simply because the standard is to have a file for each component. It makes analysing the component structure so much worse. Another one: using export default in a component file, to then import it in an index.js file in the same folder to create a module, as default and export it with another name. THIS. SUCKS. SO. FUCKING. BAD.

[@willberg8599]

At the end of the day, the central role of the programer is managing complexity

[@DmitryDaren]

Thanks

[@amnesiac-original]

Sounds logical

[@bratatihere]

How to refactor code on a daily basis😮?

[@SincereButadel]

Finally

[@RandomDude_101]

you look like that mormon dude from the series "Under the banner of heaven"

[@marcelofaviodesigner]

nice

[@gauravvala27]

Ahh my like was, 999th 😅😆 i wish i could have been the 1000th!!

[@prasannakumar-hh7cc]

Can you please share why you shifted from iOS to Web

[@prasannakumar-hh7cc]

@textmforrestknight Thanks . I 'm not sure whats your primary skill, as I don't see any iOS related videos from your side recently. Is it even possible a person doing freelancing projects in both Web and iOS side-by-side ?

[@notdaz706]

@@prasannakumar-hh7cc that’s a scammer

[@dacoolestdadever]

I have a billion dollar idea we could sell to FB or Twitter but I need help coding it are you available for hire?

[@envynoir]

same

[@jamess.2491]

said everyone in sv ever...

[@drakata27]

Da coolest with with da billion dollar idea 😎

[@nlaranjeira01]

Thank you Jesus 🙏

[@shadow6161]

why I can't be able to see you as a simple human?

[@PJ-dx2qo]

I was a bit underwhelmed at this video. Mostly advertising, not enough actual information. Really liked your early videos, though, and I hope you'll find your footing while balancing the content.

[@akirayano3677]

short version of this video is learn vim xD

[@josechavez9428]

xD true, i use neovim most of the time.

[@okechukwuanudokem2060]

0:17 hmm efficiency and a vscode user hmmmmmmmmmmm 🤔🤔

[@perfectdawnn6714]

it's possible to be efficient in vscode, but neovim efficient? nah

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[@jalalalkadi]

Sus

[@anntakamaki1960]

Hindustan mein rehna hoga, jai shri ram kehna hoga!

[@mashaurofhiwabenedict4558]

man I know this is irrelevent but you look like jesus. 😅

[@tempest3327]

he IS the coding jesus tho

[@user-eq5so9ol2c]

Another video scripted by Chat GPT haha, what's new in this???

[@movieidiots5542]

I'm sixth comment, and this changed my life