What was your win this week?

1. My ebook "How I became a programmer" is officially published on Amazon. 📗

2. First ever PR I submitted for Apache Camel is approved and merged. 🐪

Pushed up my first code review at my new job 🚀

• completed huge todo list.
• taught someone flex-box today
• taught my friend ReactJS and redux and he understood :D

• finally I have designed svgs for my personal projects

• started to use storybook at work

• deep dived into advanced types of typescript

I published this article, with an interesting meta lessoon:

Best ways to learn Kotlin: from scratch or from Java, with books or tutorials, online or in the IDE

Jean-Michel Fayard 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇴 ・ Dec 15 ・ 6 min read

#beginners #kotlin #career #android

Frankly the article was not hard to write. Nothing groundbreaking. And by using the interview format I delegated half of the work to someone else :)

.... and yet that's my most successfull article so far!

We are so often obsessed with impressing our peers - that's what developer conferences are all about - that we forget that there is a shitload of new developers in this industry, plus a shitload lot of developers switching to new things

=> Lowering the bareers to entry is at least as important as trying to expand the sum of all IT knowledge

• Made a lot of progress on the Pomodoro project from FreeCodeCamp's curriculum.
• Started a small project to learn TypeScript and practice Vue.

• launch a template and cli for reactjs:
  dev.to/heybrunoandrade/donu-ts-tem...

• get a weeklong vacation after 3 years working nonstop.

• I was finally able to make chatkit chat work perfectly

Started mentoring a developer from Russia. 🤗

• Complete learning reactjs
• Understand redux

I pushed the beta version of my black hole X-ray spectral model, one of the last big hurdles to my thesis work. Also, was able to put out a post on Dev on Monday night, the second consecutive week.

I'm trying to get in the habit of posting regularly even though I'm busy finishing up my PhD work and preparing for my SDE position at AWS, so I don't have a lot of free time. I'm proud that I'm able to do it two weeks in a row and I'm going to go for a third.

I'm seeing the light at the end of a tunnel of a feature I've been working on for the past month.

1. finished negotiations and took a position of Frontend Team Lead for a new application
2. finished a small article which could not finish for last 2 weeks :P

I finally made my first open source announcement on Dev, HN, Reddit, and Twitter [1]

I had it ready to announce for a couple weeks but wasn't sure of the best way to approach each channel.

My responses were mixed: Good on Dev and HN, poor on Reddit and Twitter.

Along with generally good feedback on the project's main premise, I've had a few issues submitted, a PR contributed, and an official Brew maintainer helping me get the Brew formula approved.

I consider the launch a success and look forward to hearing how the tool is doing in the wild.

[1]Note: I have several oss projects across several github accounts, but I never did make launch post for one until this week.

Completed my project and hosted it :D

A tool to create minecraft servers easily.
Do check it out at cyoms.tech

2 wins.

1. I released another App on the App Store.
   • App Store Link.
   • Blog Post about Release
2. A publication on Medium wanted an article of mine to be published there. Here's the link to the Medium post. It is behind the Medium paywall, so if you're a member I'd appreciate a read through there, but if you aren't a member, here is the Dev link for free.