We plan to dig deep into this topic on Brain Science (listen and subscribe here), but until then, here’s some great advice from Flavio Copes based on many years of working remotely.

I’m an introvert, I am independent and I like doing things alone. This post is heavily influenced by this fact, and you might find that what I say is madness if you’re an extrovert who needs people around to be productive.

The first suggestion I have for you is to have a dedicated office space. It does not need to be in another building, but it might be necessary if you have lots of people in your house. I do have a dedicated room, with a door I can close. It’s very helpful because it avoids.. interruptions.

Flavio Copes is a great person to take this advice from. He’s been blogging for “more than 11 years,” more or less consistently. In this post he covers not only what you need to know to be successful, but also what you need to forget.

One of ways I learn best is by doing. I literally decide on a topic I think I know something about, and I drill down in a spiral loop through things I didn’t know, or I didn’t even think about.

They say you never fully understand a topic until you are able to explain it. Blogging is a low barrier to explaining things.

If you’re looking for great introduction to create-react-app make sure you check this out.

create-react-app is a project aimed at getting you up to speed with React in no time. It provides a ready-made React application starter, so you can dive into building your app without having to deal with Webpack and Babel configurations.

Just getting started with Babel? Read this guide from Flavio Copes — it’s short, so maybe 2-3 minutes to skim or 10 minutes to read.

Babel is an awesome tool, and it’s been around for quite some time, but nowadays almost every JavaScript developer relies on it, and this will continue going on, because Babel is now indispensable and has solved a big problem for everyone.

Babel is a compiler: it takes code written in one standard, and it transpiles it to code written into another standard.

A free ebook by Flavio Copes. Here’s the skinny:

After spending a lot of time diving into Vue, in preparation for a Vue online course I’m building, I created this free resource that contains a lot of material to help anyone go from zero Vue knowledge to having a pretty good overview of this popular JavaScript frontend framework.

The book’s content is behind a newsletter signup. That’s the price of free, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

Flavio Copes:

Learn everything about JavaScript Regular Expressions with this brief guide that summarizes the most important concepts and shows them off with examples.

Regular expressions can be a developer’s best friend or worst nightmare, depending on how well you can wield them. I’ve been using them (with varying degrees of success) since the early aughts, yet I still learn something new every time I read a tutorial like Flavio’s.

You can screenshot a single element?!! 😱

Select an element and press cmd-shift-p (ctrl-shift-p on Windows) to open the Command Menu then select Capture node screenshot.

There are 11 more tips just like this. Some I’m sure you know. Others you likely don’t.

The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might now know yet.

I had no idea you can screenshot a specific element. That is super cool.

Read this if you want to know the what, why, and how of GitHub.

Learn the most important pieces of GitHub that you should know as a developer. This tutorial will help you start, but the real experience of working on GitHub on open source (or closed source) projects is something not to be missed.