Alex Hyett

Software Developer and Freelance Writer with over 12 years worth of professional experience and many more before that. Self-confessed geek with a passion for programming and all things tech.

London, United Kingdom Joined on Oct 16, 2020 hello@alexhyett.com https://www.alexhyett.com

Education

Masters in Physics, University of Bath, UK

Work

Freelance Writer and Tech Educator

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Alex Hyett

Feb 10

The biggest regret in my software engineering career

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

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4 min read

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Jan 13

5 Books That Changed My Life

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

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5 min read

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Jan 5

How I Take (and Organise) My Notes As a Software Engineer

#studying #learning #tips #developer

7 min read

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Mar 20

Can we replace junior developers with ChatGPT?

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

7 min read

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Alex Hyett

Mar 17

Monolithic vs Microservice Architecture - Which Should You Use?

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

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Mar 12

Stop caring what other people think

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

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4 min read

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Mar 10

Top 5 Programming Languages to Learn in 2023 (to Get a Job)

#tech #tools #developer #productivity

5 min read

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Mar 9

1000 Subscribers in 5 Months: My Strategy

#youtube #programming #developer #motivation

12 min read

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Mar 5

Is there such a thing as job security?

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

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5 min read

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Mar 3

Types of Software Testing Explained

#testing #programming #coding #developer

6 min read

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Feb 28

10 Best YouTube Channels for Software Developers

#youtube #programming #developer #motivation

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Feb 26

Focus on Creating Instead of Consuming

#productivity #habits #motivation #learning

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Feb 21

Python List Comprehension: With Examples

#beginners #programming #coding #developer

2 min read

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Feb 19

Content Creator Path 5-Month Update

#youtube #programming #developer #motivation

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5 min read

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Feb 17

Hexagonal Architecture: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

5 min read

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Feb 13

Software Testing Methodologies - Guide

#testing #programming #coding #developer

5 min read

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Feb 12

Software developers shouldn’t start software companies

#entrepreneurship #business #career #motivation

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5 min read

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Feb 8

What motivates us?

#productivity #habits #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Feb 6

Snake Case vs Camel Case vs Pascal Case vs Kebab Case

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

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4 min read

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Feb 5

Stop listening to your parents advice

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

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4 min read

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Feb 3

Unit Testing vs Integration Testing - Key Differences

#testing #programming #coding #developer

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Feb 1

What is CRUD? CRUD Operations in APIs

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

3 min read

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Jan 30

Hosting n8n for Free with Railway

#cloud #aws #architecture #developer

5 min read

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Jan 29

The Tale of the Mexican Fisherman

#money #motivation #career #developer

4 min read

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Jan 27

Automate Twitter with Notion and n8n

#tech #tools #developer #productivity

11 min read

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Jan 25

The Comfort Zone is Ruining Your Life

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

3 min read

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Jan 23

Warren Buffett’s 5/25 Rule is a Fake

#motivation #productivity #habits #learning

3 min read

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Jan 22

Will technology ever make our lives easier?

#tech #tools #developer #productivity

6 min read

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Jan 20

Why You Struggle to Learn to Code

#studying #learning #tips #developer

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4 min read

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Jan 19

15 Best Books for Programmers You Should Read

#studying #learning #tips #developer

8 min read

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Jan 18

How I Use Morning Pages in My Daily Routine

#habits #productivity #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Jan 17

10 Essential Apps Every Developer Needs

#tech #tools #developer #productivity

6 min read

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Jan 16

How to Succeed as an Introvert Engineer

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

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5 min read

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Jan 15

How to Find Work That You Will Love Doing

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

7 min read

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Jan 14

Overcoming Fear By Doing What is Obvious

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Jan 12

YouTube Analytics: How I Grew My Channel in the First 3 Months

#youtube #programming #developer #motivation

7 min read

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Jan 11

12 Habits of Successful Senior Software Developers

#habits #productivity #motivation #learning

6 min read

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Jan 10

Finally Understand Regular Expressions: Regex isn't as hard as it looks

#beginners #programming #coding #developer

5 min read

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Jan 9

Why Developers Should Embrace No-Code Solutions

#programming #coding #architecture #developer

4 min read

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Jan 8

Does GPT-3 threaten your engineering job?

#career #motivation #beginners #developer

6 min read

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Jan 7

Why Buying More Stuff is Never Going to Make You Happy

#life #productivity #motivation #learning

4 min read

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Jan 6

How I would learn to code (if I could start over)

#beginners #programming #coding #developer

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4 min read

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Jan 4

Applying the Pareto Principle for Exponential Results

#motivation #productivity #habits #learning

7 min read

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Jan 3

Understanding Big-O Notation

#beginners #programming #coding #developer

7 min read

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Jan 2

How To Set Goals That You Can Actually Keep

#habits #productivity #motivation #learning

5 min read

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Jan 1

The Formula for Success is Scarily Simple But No One Does It

#productivity #habits #motivation #learning

3 min read

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Dec 9 '22

Is Working In Tech Still Worth It?

#news #career #ai

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4 min read

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Dec 8 '22

Stack vs Heap Memory - What are the differences?

6 min read

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Nov 24 '22

Headonistic Adaption for Software Developers

#career #programming

3 min read

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Nov 24 '22

Code Katas: Can They Make You A Better Developer?

4 min read

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Nov 21 '22

Git Flow vs GitHub Flow

#git

7 min read

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Nov 2 '22

I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This is What Happened!

#youtube #beginners #content

16 min read

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Oct 31 '22

All Developers seem to suffer from this...

#beginners #career

3 min read

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Oct 31 '22

8 Data Structures you NEED to Know

#beginners #programming

8 min read

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Oct 31 '22

Bitwise Operators and WHY we use them

#beginners #bitwise #programming

6 min read

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Oct 25 '22

Sharing your knowledge as a developer

#beginners #programming #career

2 min read

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Oct 25 '22

Binary Numbers Explained for Programmers

5 min read

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Oct 18 '22

The Secret to Becoming a High Paid Software Developer

3 min read

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Oct 18 '22

Programming = Problem Solving

#beginners

3 min read

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Oct 18 '22

Beginners Guide to Programming

6 min read

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Oct 6 '22

Programming = Creativity 🎨

#programming #beginners

2 min read

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Oct 6 '22

How to Know if Programming is the Right Career for You?

#beginners #programming #career

6 min read

Alex Hyett

Sep 28 '22

Taking a Creative Sabbatical as a Software Engineer

#burnout #devlife #teaching #work

9 min read

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