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Advice to Myself When Starting Out as a Software Developer - The Pragmatic Engineer

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As I look back to over a decade ago, there are a few things I wish I'd started doing sooner. Habits that could have helped made me grow faster and in a more focused way. This is the advice I'd give my younger self, who has just landed their first

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