The Self Taught Developer with Hamish Macpherson

The Buffer Overflow Podcast

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)