10 things I learnt in 2024 to increase my developer productivity.

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/DreamsofCode/ . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. 2024 has been a fantastic year when it comes to learning new things. Therefore, to round off the year, I thought it would be worthwhile recapping some of the biggest things I learnt, before kicking off the new year. This video was sponsored by Brilliant. My upcoming course: https://dreamsofcode.io/courses/command-line-apps-go Videos Referenced: - Giving up Copilot: https://youtu.be/Wap2tkgaT1Q - Caps2Esc: https://youtu.be/XuQVbZ0wENE - Home Row Mods: https://youtu.be/sLWQ4Gx88h4 - zoxide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aghxkpyRVDY - SQLc: https://youtu.be/VX6KzpjaPp8 Become a better developer in 4 minutes: https://bit.ly/45C7a29 👈 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQaM7SpSECp9FELz-cHzuQ/join Join Discord: https://discord.com/invite/eMjRTvscyt Join Twitter: https://twitter.com/dreamsofcode_io 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:07 Touch Typing 00:02:18 Split Keyboards 00:03:38 Custom Layouts 00:04:49 Dev Env 00:06:36 Snippets 00:09:07 Relearning New Things 00:10:51 Sponsor 00:12:23 Code Generation 00:13:19 Automate Everything 00:14:45 Using only one language 00:17:28 Use a starter kit