The Self Taught Developer with Hamish Macpherson

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The Buffer Overflow Podcast

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Join Jordan and Joe from Buffer as they talk, tackle and dissect all sorts of topics about software engineering in a fully remote and distributed company. In this podcast, they'll cover all of the challenges modern companies face when creating software, how to do it on a team that spans the globe and several timezones and lessons learned along the way creating Buffer. Enjoy hearing from developers across all of Buffer's engineering teams such as data, infrastructure, web, iOS and Android as we explore the challenges and techniques we encounter to work as a successful remote team.

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The Self Taught Developer with Hamish Macpherson

The Buffer Overflow Podcast

34 minutes 1 second

5 years ago

The Self Taught Developer with Hamish Macpherson

The Self Taught Developer

It's a term we hear more often these days - "I'm self taught!". What seemed like a rarity years ago has been increasingly more common in our industry, so today we sat down with our engineer on staff who taught himself programming (one of 11 at Buffer!) - Hamish Macpherson!

Hamish is a senior engineer who works primarily on the front-end of Buffer. In this episode, we cover:

His journey to learning programming
How early jobs and projects helped him level up quickly
Resources and communities to learn from
Dealing with an initial rejection from Buffer when applying the first time, and how he took feedback in and improved to land the job the second time
...and more!

We hope you enjoy this episode of Overflow! Feel free to reach us online to chat about today's episode anytime:

Buffer (@buffer)
Jordan (@jordanmorgan10)
Joe (@hitherejoe)
Hamish (@hamstu)