Back in 2015, we hired someone who is an undergraduate ME student. I trained him, and I was amazed at how fast he learned, and he is now one of our devs. Your background in Mechanical Engineering will help you a lot, with the right training, you can learn a lot of things fast. Knowing the technologies, you stated above already gives you a solid foundation. If you need help getting training materials to strengthen your skill set, feel free to contact me.
Good for you. This is the part that I struggle the most, I quarantined for more almost a month and depression and anxiety kicks in the most when you are alone.
1. iTerm2 looks in .bash_profile at start-up, not in .bashrc.
I imagine your system is the same, but I found the following advice in a forum which was pretty clever, I thought. If you have both a .bash_profile and a .bashrc and you're wondering which one iTerm2 is sourcing, type
export BASH_CONF="bash_profile"
somewhere in .bash_profile and
export BASH_CONF="bashrc"
in .bashrc. Then open up a new iTerm2 window and type
echo $BASH_CONF
on the command line to see which one got set.
2. Being able to select something with the mouse and then paste it with a right-mouse click is great. Here's the right way of setting it up:
a. Open iTerm's Preferences
b. General> Selection> Check "Copy to pasteboard on selection" (for me this was the default)
c. Pointer> Bindings> Double-click on "Right button single click"; Select "Paste from Clipboard"
The _wrong_ way to do it would have been to just set up the right button click to paste from selection. That would be bad because you would lose the ability to paste something that you had copied, say, using Cmd-C in a Word document.
Experienced this last week, too, we worked hard to complete a feature, and we were ready and excited to merge and push the update to production, then GitHub was suddenly down. We didn't sleep well that night. We could have done some workarounds but just too frustrated to do so.
I manage 30+ employees, which includes at least 20 software engineers. My team and I eventually built an Employee and Project management software that addresses pain points of managing multiple teams and multiple projects. We don't use JIRA/ASANA or other third party HR tools. We are currently refining these tools for other companies to use also, especially this time of COVID-19.
First, is about simplicity, ASANA, for example, used to be very easy and straightforward to use, now got more complex than before. JIRA has tons of features, most of it we don't need. We wanted to use a simple tool that focuses on getting things done and enables us to make data-driven decisions.
Second, is we want to have full control over the data and build features custom to our needs.
You know the core fundamentals of programming, and you simply need to be retrained. You may start with this basic JavaScript course to refresh your skills. If you are interested in learning more about training opportunities that could eventually land you to a better job, I will be happy to guide you.
