A mediocre developer…

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I count myself as a mediocre developer, not a n00b but definitely not a pro.

You will catch me somewhere between “How to write HTML” and “The Philosophical Implications of Object Oriented Design in the Enterprise World for C++”

Sometimes, I don’t need to know 100% how something is working(I’m looking at you Flutter), I just need it to work.

Should building a CRUD application really make me consider chunking my computer across the room?

I will always be building something

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