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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small π
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Getting a promotion!
- Starting a new project
- Fixing a tricky bug
- Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy π
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Developed and deployed Postwoman API request builder. Which went viral, now trending on GitHub.
This week, I coordinated with @mrisdal and @sarajchipps to make this happen:
Also, check out their org account:
Stack Overflow
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I launched a side project and wrote my first ever Dev post about it π
Link?
The post is here
Why I made an a11y tutorial site with a React focus
Suzanne Aitchison γ» Aug 26 γ» 2 min read
And the site is Up Your A11y
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Woohoo
Recorded my first youtube video!
youtube.com/watch?v=srT3yqFsgCQ
And it was inspired by DEV! I was doing the daily code challenge (dev.to/thepracticaldev/daily-chall...), and just figured I'd record me doing it... so I think I'll do that for awhile, and see how I like it :)
Keep it up! Looking forward to your future code challenges :)
Thanks!
Really well explained! You should definitely do more videos :)
Thanks!
This is awesome! I want to work up the courage to do this soon...
Thanks! I've done screencast / video coding tutorials before (just not on youtube), so I do have practice doing it :)
But yeah! It's funny how just talking into a microphone, while home all alone, can give you some type of "stage fright"...
Basically, the only advice I can give is just get started! It gets easier the more you do it π
I had my first post that surpassed 4096 views! Not much, but I went into it scared that I was gonna say all the wrong things, and came out with tons of validation and new perspectives. Super proud and looking to write some more βΊοΈ
Amazing!
Please share tips. My total views is like 2000 for all post.
This week, I submitted 2 merged PR's to github.com/flexdinesh/typy and made a significant progress (50%, including unit tests π₯) on the second open-source JS library that I'm working on right now.
Both involved TypeScript so I learned more new tricks and I gained a deeper understanding on the usage of Regex so it's a huge win for me βΊοΈ
Wow what a week
Thanks Ben, and yup this was quite a week for me and it doesn't end yet, we have an incoming holiday on Monday (Malaysia FTW) so I have a lot of time to focus on my personal projects βΊοΈ
Amazing, good luck!
USA has Monday off as well, what should I do? π€
The things that you enjoy doing which can be anything π
I got to meet a bunch of awesome people and interview them for my podcast.
I published one of those today! It was with Taylor Otwell, who created Laravel, it was really fun to talk with someone that had built such a prolific project.
devpath.fm
I also had a chance to meet five or six other amazing developers this last week, and I'm really excited to share the stuff I learned from them π
Taylor otwell is awesome. I really respect the guy even though I don't use Laravel.
I really enjoyed getting to know him.
It was also really fun to find out that he lives in Arkansas (where I live)!
I created my first Gatsby theme and published it on NPM as also my first package!
It's still a WIP but working through it to make a starter and make more themes!
I did this recently too! I'm going to follow your pattern and make a few based off of a starter theme, good idea!
I started working on a brand new book. In fact, it'll be a series of small easy to read books for JS developers! And I'm going self-published, so I'm really excited about this, I'll be sharing with the community as soon as I have news!
I submitted 3 abstracts to CodeMash, the first conference I've submitted abstracts to. I've spoken at 3 user groups and once a month at my job for the last year. We'll see what happens, but submitting is a huge win in its own right.
100% code coverage! Seriously, feels so good. Spent the whole week refactoring and writing out tricky unit tests.
π Get lyrics of currently playing Spotify song so you don't sing along with the wrong ones and embarrass yourself later. Very fast.
Fetches the currently playing song from Spotify on Windows, Linux and macOS and displays the lyrics in the command-line or in a browser tab Refreshes automatically when song changes. The lyrics are fetched from Genius Turns out Deezer already has this feature in-built but with
swaglyrics, you can have it in Spotify as well.I'm mainly trying to build this project as far as I can, for practice and to learn and work with more technologies and platforms.
Initially developed this for personal use. Pretty much functionality oriented -- I usually develop something that I can see helping me and other users in the same situation. Packaged so I can first hand handle production-ready code to an extent and to make distribution and usage easier.
Why SwagLyrics?
SwagLyrics is the fastest and the most accurate package for getting lyrics.1
Provided optimal internet, SwagLyrics can fetch lyrics forβ¦
It's nice to be able to share something on here :D
This week, I was able to write 4 articles and had people reposting on Twitter while appreciating me π. It was a big win for a week. I plan to make the articles 5 before today runs out.
I also converted my website to Gatsby, would be globalizing it soon.
Getting over 600 reactions on one of my articles, here on dev.to
I got a job! At Amazon. And this one, pretty close to my dream job. All that time practising DS/Algo problems online finally paid off.
Rewrote a crappy search service from scratch. It's now using MariaDB's full text search so that it actually has some concept of relevance and sorts the results accordingly. The client was really pleased with the more accurate results.