What was your win this week?

My job search is OVER! I start a new Software Engineer position the first full week in June!!!!!! (I'll post details on my profiles next week.)

Not a personal win, but the Forem team is starting to close the loop on some huge things.

• Core Forem open source hosting instructions are moving into the final stage of testing before a wider release (long time coming)
• The Forem iOS app literally just went live. We'll have a proper announcement early next week, but consider this an early heads up for those reading this. 😄
  • The Forem app is like a browser for the whole ecosystem, so once you start your own Forem anyone who wants to browse DEV on their device can also swipe to your Forem.

I reached 150,000 views on my small YouTube channel🎉

I started a JavaScript Twitch stream!

As some know, I co-host the DEV Twitch stream, and I'm also learning Rust on Tuesdays, but now there is some JavaScript goodness too.

In the inaugural stream, we covered:

• purpose of the stream
• some katas from jskatas.org
• object and array spread

Also, how was JavaScriptHours.com not taken!?

Nick Taylor (he/him)

@nickytonline

Here's the 1st javascripthours.com stream recording. Thanks to everyone that stopped by!

youtube.com/watch?v=uCP7ac…

18:06 PM - 27 May 2021

I wrote 2 articles in 2 days

• Unit test your knowledge 💡 - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻
• De Java à Kotlin en 20 minutes 🇫🇷 - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Let's see....

• I got 2 new badges in dev.to
• For the first time, my server wasn't down this week!
• I got 2 new followers on GitHub! (github.com/manuthecoder)
• I figured out how to prevent script injections and implemented it on my site via htmlspecialchars() in PHP
• I added a custom labels feature in my web app
• And, I figured out how to to use opensearchdescription to make a custom search bar

  <link rel="search" href="https://smartlist.ga/search.xml" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Smartlist" />

I managed to get positions 1,2 and 3 for the #a11y tag for the month here on dev.to - I am a competitive so and so, it made me more happy than it should really 🤣

The worrying thing is that they are all angry rants - people are going to start thinking I am a monster! 🤣

I started blogging here and same goes on personal blog, will try to maintain at least 1 blog per week!
Fixed some architecture design issue at workplace, to make things more decoupled and easily accessible.

It was a great week TBH.

• I got a good opportunity as an author from a well known company mainly because they liked my DEV articles.
• My recent article received quite a lot of attention.
• Quincy Larson called me a legend in the daily.dev live session at around 47:00:00 minutes, mainly for my contribution to the freeCodeCamp news.
• One of my old clients came back after one year of silence, willing to revive an old dead project.

That's pretty much it 😊

I'm trying out the new sublime text 4, it has been quite nice so far.

Also, I learned a little bit about awk, just enough to make this silly little function.

Celebrating the blog content subsequent traffic. Love to see those graphs moving upwards
I finally reached 100+ followers on my medium profile as well as publication.

• Profile: singhsukhpinder.medium.com/
• Publication: medium.com/c-sharp-progarmming
• 8,641 per month on this platform with one post crossing 6k+ views. dev.to/ssukhpinder/dogecoin-mining...
• 55k monthly views on Pinterest in.pinterest.com/ssukhpinder

Completed a React JS course and built a project😊

Biggest win is -- I wrote my first ever DEV.to article.

I don't write much (read not at all or may be 1-2 blog post?) and someone suggested to start writing the story about the project I build recently and today (Sunday) was perfect for that 😎

• Pushed a really big update to a large legacy project to production. In the process, eliminated a large number of N+1 queries on the home page, removed a lot of messy legacy code, and significantly improved the type coverage and code style, thanks to Psalm and PHP Codesniffer
• Got my first vaccination

I participated in 11th NDN Hackathon and won most practical award.
Moreover, my project is deployed during the hackathon.

Apparently everyone won a different prize at this hackathon.