I've now had five (!!!) Pull Requests merged into open source projects! This closes one of my biggest programming bucket list items 😃 And I'm still making more, so its only going to go up from here.

I gathered the courage (thanks to my BFFs) to ask for my a full-time position for a company I was freelancing and now I got my first Jr. web dev job!!!

My win was to learn how to securely deploy a telegram bot using heroku docker and python and make a PR about it in a subject I used to love back in University about cloud computing. It's been a lot of fun!

I passed my Rails & Javascript review a few hours ago! I did not realize there would be a quiz, and after stumbling in the beginning (I'm looking at you hoisting and scope) but my instructor said I was the first one so far to correctly answer the last function/scope quiz question.

I built a game in vanilla JS with a ruby on rails backend for my project. It was a lot of fun! I'll write some more posts about my process, etc when I have time. For now, it can be played and downloaded locally.

git clone https://github.com/scrabill/food-or-foe.git
cd food-or-foe/backend
rails db:migrate
rails db:seed
rails s

I launched my new side project: hypevizz.com 🎉

It's a custom made blog on Firebase dedicated for data visualization.

You can learn more about it in the dev.to post I wrote.

Here's a capture of the first visualization:

I celebrated 6 years of marriage with my wife, toured the USS Yorktown (carrier), and received and accepted a job offer to become an instructor at a local bootcamp.

I wrote my first post on dev.to that got 700+ views and 3 awesome comments.

Started a new job last week, there wasn't much in the way of a formal onboarding but I was able to pick things up and resolve tickets. This week several of my colleagues expressed their happiness to have me on the team and impressed with how quickly I picked things up.

Increased overall test coverage for a large codebase from >30% to around 79% in one day. Some of them could be better...

Finally got back to coding after some issues (good an less good) and working on a new product, named OMNITED.
This is built from words Omni (all) and United and is about solving the problem of having conversations with different peoples on different channels.

I put a very very simple first LP online: omnited.com.

Based on my own "framework" and Stack (used also with with kunvenu.com) #go, #vue, #arangodb, #redis, #nsq and Rancher/Docker I did this week full reg/auth flow with GUI, Team and Space management.

Started writing blog posts again!

One about my first year as a dev, and one about Eleventy w/GitHub Pages

Yesterday I was offered a chance to teach computer science in a primary school (basically, teaching the basics of computers, operating systems, Word and Excel). Since I'm teaching at the local university, it is a big challenge for me because I've never worked with kids, but I really love teaching, so I hope to be up to the challenge.

I launched my open source project to create web components with typescript and published my first post in dev.to about it dev.to/tx2z/create-web-components-... \o/

We enabled plugins for our side project GuideChimp
As of now, there is a couple of build-in plugins (Multi Page, Google Analytics) and want to encourage developers to create plugins for their or 3pp services; e.g.

• Surveys
• Feedback
• Embedded Content
• ... and many others

I took a leap of faith and outsourced some design work for a website front-end - usually I'd do it all myself. The designer delivered above and beyond, meaning the site will look better than I had imagined, and I can offload a lot more design an increase capacity. Happy to see the business growing in the right direction.