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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
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 😄
Happy Friday!
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I launched my personal portfolio/blog.
It's built with @gridsome and hosted on @netlify.
I'm really happy with it. Speed and Design all at once. I also implemented NetlifyCMS 🎉
You can check out: justaashir.com
Just checked your blog, very nice and the pages load without a reloading the entire page. Very cool. Is this all done using vue.js?
Thanks, It's just simple VueJs with Gridsome.
You should check out GitHub as it's open-source: github.com/justaashir/justaashir.com
I'll also write a post about it.
I checked out your page. It's blazing fast. I like the design as well.
Well done.
Thanks, for checking it out. I'm also loving it
Hey Dude, check your links - they are malformed. Otherwise - well done ;)
Thanks, I'll correct everything, in next push
This is neat. ♥️
Mine was posting my first article! even though I'm not much of a writer/blogger!
Good job! 😀👏
Thank you 🙂
Congrats on your first post!
Haha cheers Nick.
Now comes the hard part - consistently posting articles. 😂
Nice. Cool topic.
Keep posting.
😃
Cheers 👍🏾
I published my first book!
It was inspired from some of the mentoring I've done through dev.to and it even references an article or two by people here.
That's so cool! Congratulations! 🥳 How did you publish the book? I'm looking into publishing as well and don't know where to start...
I was thinking of writing a series of posts about it here, but I'm happy to help you out!
The main platform I used was Leanpub. It is really easy to get started with, developer-friendly, free, and plays nicely with other tools you'll need.
To write my book I used an application called Highland 2 which is Mac only, and I wrote using Markdown. To motivate me through the process of writing I signed up for NaNoWriMo and then told everyone that I was going to write a book. In April of 2019 I wrote 52,000 words. That is close to 200 pages.
The rest of the steps are kind of specific in terms of cover designs, editors, ISBNs, and getting into Amazon.
If I could go back I would have started marketing before I wrote my first word.
Anyway, reach out and I'm happy to help!
Thanks a lot, Ryan! That's just the tools I was looking for! 😊
What sort of marketing would you have done before starting? And how do you do your marketing now?
I am going to lean on email marketing as my primary method of getting my book out.
So I started a newsletter!
I work to attract people to sign up to it, and then I make it a point to send something helpful to the people who do sign up. I wind up with a community of people who trust and vouch for me and will then buy this book, future books, classes, etc.
If I had started that first, I could have vetted the contents as I wrote, tested pricing, collected more stories from everyone, etc. When my book was done more than likely most of the people would have happily bought it.
FYI: The total cost for me to self publish was around $900. I got off lucky at that price.
Sounds like a good strategy for a book. 🙂 Did you learn email marketing somewhere? Or you're just figuring it out as you go?
And where can I sign up for your newsletter? 🤓
I was introduced to Tim Grahl's material on book marketing. I've been working through it. I will say that most of his easy to get material is very high level, so it takes some thought to fill in the blanks.
One place you can sign up for my newsletter is here.
My CFP for a talk on "Web Performance Hacks" got accepted in Mumbai JavaScript Meetup! This will be my first ever talk🎉
That's awesome. Good job.
Thank you🌻
Awesome Saurabh!
Thank you, Nick!
I got approved as a Pluralsight author for writing course assessments.
That company means a lot to me since they helped me stay focused and get through temporary paralysis and back into the work force 5 years ago.
It's a great feeling to give back and make something dear to you better. Congratulations!
Stay course are you producing
I will be adding assessment questions for courses and I don't have the full details yet. I hope to potentially do courses as well, but for now, I'm helping with questions.
Secure a partnership hunted for a long time: AppSeed <-> TeleportHQ - an AI-Wired Front-End Development Platform.
Sorry for the lack of modesty, but I'm super excited :).
Never apologize for your accomplishments. It's not about modesty.
I finished my first week in a new job! Senior Software Engineer, working in front end (react) on a product that helps freelancers / sole traders / small businesses keep on top of their accounting!
DEV's Mohonk Meetup!
Posted my first DEV.to article !! Check it out here
Did you know you can use
so that your post preview will show up:
How to start Coding up your Design System in Vue
Maximilien Monteil ・ Jan 31 ・ 9 min read
Helps make the link more clickable!
I keep forgetting about the tags! I'll add this to my cheatsheet.
ohh that's awesome didn't think it would work in comments, thanks!
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Docker 101: Use it with NodeJS in 2020! 📦 🙌 (practical guide)
Shahjada Talukdar ・ Jan 30 ・ 2 min read
I finished developing a Law-Firm's static site from a PSD file to live in a week! 😄
I started the software engineering immersive program at GA SF this week and blazed through html, css, functions, and loops. Finally understood FizzBuzz. Yey. \o/
I finally found a searchable select box plugin for Vue that seems to work fairly well!
vue-select.org/
Engaging with and celebrating the achievements of the awesome members of this community 🙂
On the technical side, running OpenVino optimized computer vision on a Raspberry Pi!
Launched a project I've been working on. A syntax highlighting theme generator for Prism.
Merlins-marker.com