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I don’t have a problem or anything. I’m just the tiniest bit unsure about which editor I’d like to use.

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Coding Report di WakaTime per tutto il 2018

WakaTime è un famoso tool di Time Management per il tracking del proprio tempo dentro a IDE, Text Editor, browser etc. che in automatico aggrega e salva tutti i dati sui linguaggi utilizzati, sistemi operativi, progetti, commit, branch etc.

Molto ma molto comodo per avere una piccola analitica sul lavoro svolto durante la setimana https://wakatime.com/

Infatti lo utilizzano tantissimi sviluppatori e team! E questo gli ha permesso di creare delle proprie statistiche sul totale delle ore di codice scritto dai coder-programmatori durante tutto il 2018!

https://wakatime.com/blog/36-wakatime-2018-programming-stats

Riporto le cose più succose di seguito:

Totale ore di codice scritto:

TypeScript and JavaScript (1,872,864 hrs) JavaScript (1,459,386 hrs) PHP (703,917 hrs) Java (524,831 hrs) TypeScript (413,478 hrs) HTML (400,629 hrs) Python (322,724 hrs)

JavaScript really is eating the world!

Totale di IDE utilizzati: VS Code (2,828,930 hrs) PhpStorm (513,626 hrs) IntelliJ (387,862 hrs) Android Studio (418,848 hrs) Sublime Text (396,852 hrs) Atom (282,278 hrs) WebStorm (252,855 hrs) Visual Studio (271,318 hrs) PyCharm (136,139 hrs) Vim (122,813 hrs) I sistemi operativi più utilizzati: Mac (2,917,873 hrs) Windows (2,433,891 hrs) Linux (1,170,258 hrs)

Quindi in conclusione si può dire che Microsoft regna con VisualStudio Code (e ora anche con Atom visto che ha acquisito GitHub che pur essendo nuovo come IDE ha una posizione buona) anche se spero sia solo per il fatto che è gratuito a differenza di phpStorm che ha funzionalità alla lunga molto migliori di VS Code ma costa non poco.

Javascript come già tutti sanno sta diventando il linguaggio universale piano piano, e raddoppia tutti gli altri alla lunga!

E il Mac anche se di poco è il preferito tra i coder!

Molto interessante questa statisitica, a me piace perche è la più vero simile secondo me, WakaTime calcola veramente solo le ore e i minuti di codice scritto e non statistiche in base alle ricerche google o domande stackoverflow (anche se pure quelli sono dei ottimi punti di riferimento).

E no WakaTime non mi paga per elloggiarlo cosi tanto e che mi piace d’avvero un botto tenere sotto controllo la mia produttività. Ed infatti ecco il mio screenshot per il 2018:

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WakaTime: Quantify your coding

https://wakatime.com/

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Priyanka Sharma - WTR 11

Women’s Tech Radio - Episode 11

Priyanka Sharma |WTR 11

January 28, 2015

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 DESCRIPTION:  Priyanka is a cofounder of WakaTime, a fully automatic time tracking service for programmers

ANGELA:  This is Women’s Tech Radio, episode 11.

PAIGE:  A show on the Jupiter Broadcasting Network interviewing interesting women in technology. Exploring their roles and how they are successful in technology careers.  So Angela, I’d like to ask you about what kind of tolls you’re suing to collaborate lately.  

ANGELA:  Well, lately I’ve been mailing using Google Docs, sharing episode show notes and -- well, with you for the interviews.  It’s really handy to be able to share it with anybody and have them add or modify.  I think it will come in really handy with the developer stuff that we’re doing for getting out new website going and just coordinating all of the apps and different things that we have going on. We also are using, pretty strongly, GitHub for that.

PAIGE:  Nice.

ANGELA:  What do you use?  

PAIGE:  I use a lot of Evernote, because it’s a lot like Google Docs, and especially with their new update where you can chat about a note.  So I can share a whole folder, just like with Google Docs, or they call it a notebook.  But I can also do things like threw sound files into a note or video files into a note, and it’s a lot more multimedia.

ANGELA:  Right.

PAIGE:  Which, especially right now I’m working on kind of a small game with somebody and we’re needing to share back and forth more art files or sound files.

ANGELA:  It sounds like a digital scrapbook.

PAIGE:  I think that’s exactly what they used to call it.

ANGELA:  That is so cool.

PAIGE:  Yeah, it’s really neat.

ANGELA:  I think I could get to like that, but for some reason -- I’ve tried Evernote before but I just -- it just will not stick.  

PAIGE:  You have to be pretty dedicated at first and kind of just say, I’m just going to use Evernote.  But I just love that it’s always with me, and I even pay for the premium so I can -- it does OCR and I can search.  If I take a picture of a sign I’ll then search for, when was that farmer’s market? And it will pull up the picture that I took of the sign.  

ANGELA:  Right. Right.

PAIGE:  I like to think of it as my cyborg brain.  Today we are interviewing Priyanka.  She’s the cofounder for WakaTime.  Spent time at Google and also at a couple different startups.  We talked to hear about gender barriers in the startup world and also just about her journey from becoming a police science major all the way through to a technical cofounder.

ANGELA:  And before we get into the interview, I’d like to talk about Linuxacademy.com.  Linux Academy is founded by educators, Linus enthusiast, and programmers.  They have created step-by-step video courses and downloadable comprehensive study guides.  If you use linuxacademy.com/wtr as the code you to go, you will save $5.00 a month.  It is a great place to start our own server and be able to do different things on it. You can choose up to seven Linux distributions.  Once again, go to linuxacademy.com/wtr.  

PAIGE:  And the first thing that we asked Priyanka today was to tell us about cofounding WakaTime.  

PRIYANKA  I have been in technology for a while.  I graduated from Stanford and then got a job at Google.  And while I was there I realized that I was very interested in starting something new, because there were just so many opportunities of improvement in the world.  And I wanted to learn more so I joined a startup, which got acquired by GoDaddy. It was called Outright.  Around then I started tinkering with ideas and I was actually working on something different by myself part-time, and then I slowly formed a team.  Just around when I was fundraising I actually met my current cofounder Allen.  It just clicked instantly.  It’s one of the, you know, personal love at first sight type situations.  Where you just know this is a good fit.  So that happened and I had to spend some time convincing him to join me.  I wasn’t your prototypical cofounder because, A, I’m not your -- it’s just gender difference matters.  And also just my background was very different, because I had done a lot of biz ops and stuff at Google.  But it all worked out and Allen and I started working together.  WakaTime was something that we were building on the side at the time for projects.  Just because, he had done a contracting for programming on the side.  As we were working on our other concept, WakaTime was slowly getting users and eventually it came to a point where we had -- I was spending more of my time answering and reaching out and working with the users of WakaTime than our initial idea.  So we had one of those truth moments where we just realized that this is the right thing to be focusing on.  And then we just jumped in and ran full-time.  At that time we had about 6,000 users and now we’re at over 15,000, and this was like three months ago -- two, three months ago.  It shows that what it needed was a little bit of attention and there’s so much potential.  

PAIGE:  Can you kind of give us the elevator pitch for what WakaTime is?  I pulled it up and I think it looks fascinating and I’m super excited to try it out.

PRIYANKA  Awesome. Well, yes, WakaTime is automated analytics for developers.  It’s a product by developers for developers, so it’s very focused on our world. Effectively, what you do is you install a plugin from our website.  It’s an open source plugin, always.  We support 19 text editors and IDEs.  Once you’ve installed and setup, then you’re good to go and automatically WakaTime will get heartbeats from your text editor and record data in real time, and you can look into your dashboard on WakaTime to see hours programed, languages uses, and this is going to be interesting but soon framework detection as well.  So, things like that.  And then we also have leaderboards where users sort of see where they stack up compared to rest of the community, which at this point is pretty meaningful at 15,000 users.

PAIGE:  What puts you on the leaderboard?

PRIYANKA  The number of hours.  Very straightforward, hours coded in the week.

PAIGE:  You had a very different experience being a “different” sort of cofounder and then sort of mentioned gender, has that really been what it is is that you’re a female cofounder and that is very rare in tech startups?

PRIYANKA  It is rare, but it is particularly rare in such a high tech startup as this, which is all about technology and focused on the developer user base.  You know, a lot of women I see, my friends -- this is not true of all cases, of course, but a lot of them it’s more like, sort of online to offline businesses or things like that.  So in my current scenario it’s different because 95 percent of our user base is male, for example.  And it’s a community which I manage and nurture.  So it’s kind of a unique experience, but that does not mean it’s a bad experience.  Having worked on the other startup idea before with Allen, which was actually an online to offline business, it was in the message space, I can tell you that this one is a lot more fun and exciting and the reason is just that it’s a viable and exiting business (unintelligible) product.  It didn’t end up mattering that our user base is not female.  But yes, when I was getting started, I think one of the biggest challenges that many women face, not all, is that the social circle that you keep is not necessarily aligned with where you will find majority of the best technical people and those technical cofounders.  And especially in the Bay area where I think the ratio of men to women in tech is like 70/30.  A lot of times when you talk to people you’re categorized by default as female.  You know what I mean?  Not because their malicious people or anything but they’re not used to hanging out with you.

PAIGE:  Yeah, it’s still such a standout difference that it’s the label you get.

PRIYANKA  Exactly. And then the things is, you just have to work with that, right?  And so, for me, it was just I knew I wanted to do a company and I knew I would not compromise on my cofounder, so I just kept looking and kept working and one day I found Allen and we are very aligned in our values and what we want out of life in the next two, three years and so it just makes all the sense in the world to get together.  But it was a hard time finding him.

ANGELA:  How did you go from three or 5,000 to 15,000?  Do you do in-person meet ups?  What is your advertising angle for that?  Do you sale to companies like, hey get your employees to sign up for this developing thing or how do you do that?

PRIYANKA  Sure, in terms of our focus it’s been individual programs.  We haven’t gone the enterprise route.  What’s worked for us really was twofold.  One was giving a lot of attention to Facebook and just reaching out to the international audience there.  A lot of the developers who are out of America tend to be available on Facebook and so you can through your Facebook page as well as through other people’s pages, as well as a little bit of add etcetera, it was really helpful. For the domestic audience it’s been a lot of meet ups.  So we run Flask meet-up.  Flask is, I don’t know if you guys know, Python micro framework.  So we run that meet up and we’ve started building some credibility through that.  And we do a lot of work on Twitter as well for the domestic audience.  So those tow have worked well as well as meet ups. Additionally, we have really started trying to build a community so we started sending out a newsletter, which really pushed out -- started making people really aware of what we were doing and we’ve started doing a referral program, etcetera.  So, it’s a lot of different things, but primarily the focus is built community and get the word out there, because once programmers hear about WakaTime, they love it.

PAIGE:  Yeah, I mean I hadn’t heard about it until we started talking about doing an interview and it’s exactly the sort of tool that I could use.  I mean, I have so many ways to track statistics on my apps and none on how to track me.  

You mentioned before that when you were at Google you were doing more biz ops.  How did you do the transition into a much more technical role?

PRIYANKA  The way it happened was, when I was at Google I was doing partnerships for AdSense. Then over there I was sort of a team representative to a product group, because they were building something we needed, our team.  And that’s where my real transition into deep tech started, because I ended up becoming the product manager for that team for a brief period of time, because their actual PM left and the product that we needed I felt strongly that needs to be built, so I was like hey I can just help build this because I get along really well with the engineers, let’s do it.  That kind of thing.  We did a great job and we actually launched that product.  It was an internal tool.  And that was where I got my first taste of working solely with engineers, focusing on product, and evangelizing it afterwards within the sales teams. And really enjoyed it.  I actually got an offer to join the engineering team at Google at that point, and believe it or not I actually said no, because I actually talked to a bunch of non-technical people who were in those roles and they seemed very daunted by the fact that they were surrounded by tech folks, and there was -- I heard a lot of self-doubt there and I was like oh it sounds like people aren’t being valued here so maybe that will happen to me And my self-doubt took over and I didn’t join.  Then after that role though, I became a sales engineer for Double Click, another Google product and that -- steadily I was getting more technical.  And then when I joined the startup Outright, which got bought by GoDaddy, I did a lot of hands on work, whatever was needed, right? Like (unintelligible), website, marketing page, anything.  That’s what startup is.  So by that time I felt very comfortable.  And then once I met Allen and really got involved with WakaTime, it was just such a natural transition that -- I’ll just say, it just started working back.

PAIGE:  Going back, do you think you could have taken that technical role at Google or was the journey really important?

PRIYANKA  So, I actually think I could have taken that role, simple because the people who were offering it to me were really excited about me, and they were all VPs and they were going to mentor me.  So, I could have done it.  However, I feel like what I have learned now, which was at the startup that I joined, was a lot of hands on stuff on how to run a business and get started.  I would have -- I would have missed out on that. So it’s a tradeoff, you know. Either way I’m sure I would have landed on my feet, but this set of experiences is great, because now I’m so immersed in the technology with WakaTime, because it’s just me and Allen and a few contractors, so I can’t afford not to be.  And it’s working out great.

ANGELA:  Recently we started up a Women’s Tech Radio Tumblr account and it’s kind of like a faux blog, and basically we have out transcription of each episode on there. And I noticed that you have recently started blogging for your company.

PRIYANKA  Right. That’s correct.

ANGELA:  Is that something that you will continue to do and do you want to talk about that a little bit?

PRIYANKA  Yeah, absolutely.  So, something that’s very obvious in the industry to me, in the type of products we build is that blogging is a great force.  It’s such an equalizing way to get your word out there, as a young startup especially.  And we are trying so many innovative new things WakaTime, which ware in the (unintelligible) which, you know, you will soon see and hear about.  And I see blogging as a great way to explain the use cases, show how it can really transfer development and all that.  So, I plan on continuing to blog actually, and do blog a lot more.  My goal -- and actually I’ll just say this here, because it will help me stay accountable, my goal is to do at least a blog post a week.

PAIGE:  Nice.

PRIYANKA  Yeah, exactly.  So, yes you’ll see a lot more of me.

ANGELA:  So you’re first blog, it’s 3 Hacks to Increase your Productivity.  

PRIYANKA  Yes.

ANGELA:  Do you want to explain what those three hacks are or do you want us to just link that in the show notes and people can go and read it on their own?

PRIYANKA  So, I’ll give a brief overview of what prompted that post.

ANGELA:  Okay.

PRIYANKA  And I’d love it if you guys tagged, linked to it in your --

ANGELA:  Of course. Absolutely.

PRIYANKA  Okay, awesome.  So, basically what we found as we’ve evangelized WakaTime is that students really find WakaTime useful, and basically anybody learning something find it really useful, because the bottom line when you try to increase your skill level is to know where you were at before, right?  So you know how well you do, you have to track yourself.  And by using WakaTime what people can do is they’ll start tracking their hours programming as well as languages.  And you also know what programs you’re working on, projects, etcetera.  And you can see how you progress over time.  First is just the cold feet, right, of the first few days where did you just code 30 minutes or did you get better and do more and more.  And so, one is the cadence of how your hours increase, the other is also how many files you start touching.  And so, WakaTime can tell you really well how you’re progressing in your learning.  So, actually we are in conversations with quite a few code schools in the Silicon Valley area as well as outside, so there’s a female developers’ boot camp called Hacker U out of Toronto that uses us for that precise reason, because it helps their students so much, you know, calibrate themselves, and the instructors know how they’re doing too.  See, and then there’s another code school called da Vinci Coders that uses us.  We’re currently in conversations with a company called Code Path which does sort of boot camps for experienced developers and they’re all so excited to start using us.  And this is an area we’re going into as a company, just to enable education in tech. So, there are lots of ways to become better at programing.  The first step though is to track and that’s where WakaTime comes in.

PAIGE:  Do you have a language of choice that you code in?

PRIYANKA  So, I do a lot -- I end up doing a lot of front end stuff with just HTML, CSS, JavaScript.  But I’m trying to get better at Python, since, you know, that’s what our whole background is built on.

PAIGE:  Do you use WakaTime yourself to help you track that?

PRIYANKA  Oh yeah, all the time.

PAIGE:  Awesome. Are you on the leader board?

PRIYANKA  No, I wish. Oh my gosh, both me and Allen are like when will we ever make it in the top 50?  When will it happen?  But, you know, you have to understand, there are such rock stars on there.  Many weeks the average hours per day is 10 plus hours a day of pure coding.

PAIGE:  OH my goodness.

ANGELA:  Wow.

PRIYANKA  Yes, exactly.

PAIGE:  I don’t’ think I’ll ever be on your leader board.

ANGELA:  Yeah.

PRIYANKA  Hey, never say never.  

PAIGE:  One thing we didn’t ask is what -- did you have an educational background?  Do you have a science degree or anything like that? I know I like to talk to people because I have a theatre degree and I’m still a developer and that transition was really interesting for me.  

PRIYANKA  Yes, actually, I have a political science degree from Stanford and so definitely non-technical.  While I was in college I was much more focused on things like student government. I ran the undergraduate senate at Stanford and that kind of stuff.  Once I graduated I -- really the job was serendipitous.  It was a very bad economy.  I need a (unintelligible) to even get a job, so I had very narrow -- I had a very tight set of needs that needed to be met before I could actually get a job.  It worked out wonderfully when Google hired me and also processed my Visa for me. And that’s what really pulled to to tech.  And very quickly I started realizing that, look very clearly I just need to learn to program to become good in this industry.  Now, maybe I’ll never be like Allen, my cofounder who’s like a 10 or 100 x engineer, but I definitely need to get good at this.  So, I slowly started looking.  I had taken a few computer course at Stanford so that was really helpful, actually.  Then I just started tinkering around a little bit and hanging out with a lot of technical people, and then when we jumped full-time into the startup I did all our front -- you know, like the landing pages and stuff like that.  I’m more of a DIY person and I learn by doing, and that’s sort of been my journey.

ANGELA:  Has there been any particular resource or website that has been invaluable for you?

PRIYANKA  When I was just starting, W3 Schools was super useful.  They’re so simple and clear.  I love that.

PAIGE:  They also -- Actually, if you took some classes at Stanford, Stanford actually publishes their intro to computer science courses on iTunes U.

PRIYANKA  Oh yeah, that’s right.  Yes.

PAIGE:  And I found them really helpful too.

PRIYANKA  Yeah, no those are great.  You’re right. I also sometimes when it’s like -- sometimes I -- when it’s a very specific task, like less about learning, but a task, then I sometimes look at YouTube and also -- what is this other thing I’ve been looking at a lot lately.  It’s skipping my mind right at this second but there was something I used. It wasn’t your usual stack of (unintelligible) but, you know, in general I just -- I have been Googling a lot and YouTube was really helpful, W3 schools, but now a lot of times I also find myself working with Allen on the harder things.

ANGELA:  Right, a one-on-one, a peer type situation?

PRIYANKA  Exactly.

PAIGE:  And do you find Meet ups useful?  You guys run the Flask meet up, has that been helpful for you?

PRIYANKA  Oh yeah, because Allen is a really good teacher and so he started with very intro to flask, like why flash is fun, that kind of stuff.  And so that’s been really good for me.  Oh, and the thing I was missing was I really like the Mozilla developer network.  It’s such a great guide.

PAIGE:  Oh, yeah I will have to check that out.  I haven’t looked at them yet.

PRIYANKA  Yeah, they’re really useful.  And especially as you graduate, I would say, from W3 schools, it really starts helping out.

ANGELA:  I just kind of wonder, what do you like to do in your free time?  What are you hobbies that maybe aren’t so techy?

PRIYANKA  So, you know, running a startup you don’t really have any hobbies.

ANGELA:  Yeah, right I know.

PAIGE:  A startup is the hobby.

PRIYANKA  It’s literally, I work more than 12 hours a day and I don’t even notice it is the weird part. But, you know, when I do have some time, I think -- Especially like detox days, I would say I really like to read and just light fiction stuff is fun for me.  Usually I like British authors because I grew up in India and we were very well fed on British authors.  And then I also just like to talk to to different people and bounce off ideas. Help them with their startup stuff and just be involved in the tech community.  It’s really fun for me.

PAIGE:  Well, this has been a fantastic interview.  Thank you so much for joining us and I am super excited to go check out WakaTime.

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