What was your win this week?

This week was one of the most thrilling for me,

• started my open-source contribution journey
• I completed the Python basics
• participated in Wix Studio #devchallenge

Loving this community ♥

I crossed $1k in sales for my Terraform eBook 🥳

Ran a 5k yesterday without dying :D

Also finally deployed a big DB migration I've been working on for months!!

I built a full locally & open source AI based semantic router, sorting topics within less than 10ms, on Kaggle :

🔀 Semantic Router w. ollama/gemma2 : real life 10ms hotline challenge 🤯

adriens ・ Jul 10

#opensource #ai #showdev #python

Finally modded my keyboard to improve the sound, and even managed to both write a blog about it (and feel good enough to hit publish!)

And... After nearly 18 months of sick leave, I was well enough to brainstorm with a colleague that I have really missed working with 😍

• wasnt much but I finally posted something!
• hundreds followed after that post.. please do not have pitchforks, feedbacks are appreciated though
• felt content with current portfolio status, will take a breather

This week was cool but can be better:

• I Had two new introduction to VC's in Italy, pretty raugh time. Fundraising is hard.
• We are getting near 200 Stars on Github -- Please help ❤️
• Trying to figure out better SEO optimizations
• Working on a new Documentation explaining our product
• Working on new Design for my App

That's it! We will see in the next weekly post.
Love from Italy.

I added a blog for my webapp

1. Read a novel "The midnight library"
   here's the quote that I liked

   It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - Thoreau

2. started cleaning up the inbox of one of my Gmail accounts.

   • I looked at the number 27k, it stressed me out. I'm down to 7k now. and aiming to clean up further by next few weeks.

3. installed the brave browser to fight the YouTube addiction.

4. spend some time on online courses.

5. fixed couple of bugs on one of my personal project.

things I learnt this week (bash on it!):

• database
  • column orders matters when creating indexing.
  • create a view if joins are being used a lot to improve the performance.
• dotnet core
  • use user secrets with combination of env variable and digital lockers to secure connection string.
  • take extreme care of nullable and use null-forgiving (= null!) only when you're sure the value ought to be initialized later. (and there are other checks in place, like database constraints)
  • use query tags, parameter and PII loggings on local/dev for debugging.
  • use AsNoChangeTracking() for queries that are not going to be modified.
  • use non-blocking fetch for collecting data in a asynchronous stream when downloading big chunk of data.

I completed a video series about using Insomnia and Inso in an open-source way. That was a lot of work totaling 70 one-minute short YouTube videos with the source code and instructions on how to the project that it implements.