Hey y'all!
The weekend is here again and I'd like to know what everybody is up to. 😀
Whether you're sharpening your JS skills, making PRs to your OSS repo of choice 😉, sprucing up your portfolio, or writing a new post here on DEV, we'd like to hear about it.
Hope your learnings go well! And don't forget to give yourself some unwind time too — you've earned it!
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I am taking the Open AI Challenge by Microsoft
Currently on On Day 5
Apart from that I am learning to animate videos, here is a recent sample. Respect towards YouTubers and animators suddenly shoot up.
Woooaaaaa! This video is great. Loving the writing — so much fun wordplay!
And the animation kicks butt. I can't believe how well you timed the facial expressions with the words.
Good stuff, Sukhpinder!
Hope the Open AI Challenge goes well for ya and keep it up with these videos — you rock at this! 🎸
Thanks @michaeltharrington such positive words from you mean a lot.
I've a question can we post these on dev.to as a post? Or whether it should be specifically tech-savvy
Great question!
I think this is totally cool to post on DEV. 😀
I'd just recommend using the #jokes tag when ya do!
#jokes
And to be clear, it's cool to use other tags too so long as they are on topic for whatever the joke is. Just steer clear of tags that don't likely fit like #tutorial for instance.
Trying to learn more about how to effectively interview candidates. We had a couple last week (first time running them as the primary interviewer), and while I didn’t outright blow them, our lead dev wasn’t thrilled with how I handled certain aspects. Being a dev is so much easier than handling this side of things…
That said I’m 90% certain we interviewed our next new dev, and she’s a total rockstar. Particularly when it comes to a11y and WCAG, which is something we desperately need.
Really relatable! Interviewing is such a tough skill and not one that we really often get a chance to practice.
Also, it can be tough to prep! For instance, oftentimes when we're added to the interview team, it's because we're close to the work that the person being interviewed is doing. And we're bringing on that new person because we're down a teammate (or need someone else!) and have a lotta work to do. It can be tough to pull yourself away from the work and prepare for an interview. It can also be tough if our jobs don't involve much peopling, to take an interview midday; we get into the zone of plugging away at our computers, then need to turn it off and go talk to a human we've likely never met before and probe them with questions. It's a weird switch to try and flick.
Anywho, I'm glad to hear that y'all have a good candidate on deck. Sounds like an awesome one!
Thanks to @ssukhpinder , I discovered we can create series in dev.to :D
I just created a series for my 30-day writing challenge about Mastering RiotJS: dev.to/steeve/series/26942
I'm glad my comment could help @steeve
Huh I never knew about this either. I may have to start a series of my own once I have enough articles under my belt that are of a similar theme. Thanks for sharing @steeve !
I've decided to jump back into Python. I'm really doing the best I can to to tackle this inconsistency dragon that I've been fighting for yearsssss.
Also people keep telling me that I don't need to learn Python in order to get a cybersecurity job, but I've been searching for work for about two months now and it seems like almost every job post is asking for someone that knows scripting through Python or Java. I hate Java, so Python it is.
This week-end, after having unboxed an An "Advent calendar" API for IT Events :
🥳 An "Advent calendar" API for IT Events
adriens ・ Mar 30
I'm taking a closer look at how to get Structured Outputs from LLM, but with open source stack only (
ollama, LlamaIndex).If you guys have some cool resources about that, feel free to share them.
The final goal is an artistict project ;-p
I've been drafting some new articles, and in the process trying to get into an efficient workflow. Right now I find myself spending too much time on finding the right cover image for them and haphazardly sharing them across different networks. My hope is as I work on more of them this will become a quicker routine.
This what I learn this week!
OhMyPunk - Remember Last Tab Open in HTMX
Imam Ali Mustofa ・ Mar 30
Boooyah! Keepin' up with the HTMX project I see. Good stuff, Imam!
That's should to be good stuff ma bro! Cz you know, I am too handsome to do this... 🤣
As a "pure" backend I'm interested to improve my "frontend" skills so I've created a Vue3 application to create and publish threads in Mastodon so I learned to use the store using pinia, router, and play with components
Little ugly but you can save your thread, attach pictures, add/remove toots etc using your local storage so you don't need any backend, all run in your browser
I think, for a backend as me, Vue is one of the best frontend frameworks to start
fedithread.aguilera.soy/
Well, it's kind of learning. Before working on my game engine I was working on a half-finished game that had it's own ECS and Immediate-Mode UI framework and level editor. Now I'm kind of relearning how that worked just for fun. It was built using libGDX (just for rendering).
Actually, now my new 2D engine can entirely replace libGDX's role so maybe I should port it over ^_^
I'm finishing a frontendmentor challenge called "Multi-step form" in React and TS. And jumping straight into a DEV Frontend Challenge ... still got one day left :)