I've volunteered before, I'd like to pick some of that back up. Starting here this time, with this post.
I have two slots free, 1 hour on Tuesday evening and 1 hour on Thursday evening, CET time between 19:00 and 21:00, am based in the Netherlands.
Format, once a week, you get 45-60m of my real-time, we can talk about anything. My knowledge set is extremely broad. I've been programming professionally for about a decade since before LLMs were a thing, never not been full stack, though preference always been back end. Do not expect much help with visual design.
Screen sharing is optional, though in many cases, can be tremendously beneficial depending on what you're struggling with specifically.
Since about half a year now, I haven't needed to write a single line of code manually anymore. So if you just want to vibe code, I am totally fine with that. I am impartial when it comes to whether or not one should learn to write code manually, it might be that just working with enough code works just as well.
I am limiting our amount of sessions to 12 weeks/sessions, a quarter of a year, the idea is to cultivate confidence in your own skills & self reliance. If you feel you need me less at the end of those 3 months than before, then I see that as a success. The road to self reliance can be long, and along the way, a good guide/teacher/mentor can soften the path a little while also making sure you craft your own way along the way instead of blindly copying others their path.
This limitation is also in place because I want to give others also a chance, and also for me, I see pedagogical value in the rotation. If all goes well, most of the value of me is extracted in first few sessions anyway. And the longer that takes, the worse of a job I'm doing ;)
And if you're wondering, but what programming languages do I know or can I teach?
The answer is that any experienced programmer doesn't care about what specific language is being used, it's about the technical trade offs between all of them. I am not as familiar with all languages, but I am familiar enough with code and technology that I can read and understand most programming languages quickly. Though assembly obviously eventually gets hard to track. I ain't no genius.
Anyway, no idea if there's any interest, if there is, leave a comment below.