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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
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Finally started on a new exciting project for myself. That ticks a lot of boxes for me.
That's amazing! specially if the scope is reasonable.
One thing I do on my side projects is try to plan ahead and break each feature into small tasks. In that way, the remaining tasks seams easy to complete and reduce the friction to keep moving forward. Good luck!
Curious what your idea is now
So there are plenty of events apps. But I'm trying to build something out that doesn't require the people you invite to have to make an account to use it.
The use case in my mind really helps with non-profits and grassroots groups.
There are quite a few orgs that still use Facebook for their events. That's pretty gated. I would like to interact with them too but I don't want to use Facebook.
Most of these orgs also have a mailing list. So I would like to have these two be able to be combined. That way you can see info about the orgs events as well as be notified without ever making an account anywhere.
It also works for personal use. You might have a family outing. You have the family emails but not everyone is on one platform. Being able to send an email out with a private link to your event where you can have info and discussion all without having them ever make an account is really nice.
That would remove a lot of friction and makes a lot of sense, especially for people that aren't on Facebook. I suggest checking the eVite flow, they do something like that (not requiring log in) for RSVPs. Good luck :)
Oh cool thanks!
Gotta have the wife like the idea or else.
Yeah makes it easier to work on your project all weekend!!
This week was 🦄🌈🌻 for me
Congrats! I just read your article and it's really good! Your idea about asking "Do I really need this library?" before npm install really made me recall this article my girlfriend wrote last week:
6 ways minimalism can help you write clean code
Paula Santamaría ・ Sep 18 ・ 5 min read
Hi I just read her article and loved it. I love how she explained how removing unnecessary code is important. Definitely deserves a lot of 🦄
Congrats!!!
thank you :)
Congrats on the article and getting the HR call!
If you don't mind me asking, Regex for which tool/language and the resource you are using?
Thank youu! and I am using regex in javascript and currently using it to build a npm package called Pluck. It is not complete yet but after completing users will be able to
plk.byQuery('div.coolClass',htmlString)to extract the string from that particular selector. I think it will be useful for extracting the data from web scrapped html stringOur latest launch was really well received 😊
You can now generate self-hostable static blogs right from your DEV content via Stackbit
Ben Halpern ・ Sep 26 '19 ・ 4 min read
My static site is already live and cannot be more happy about it: maurogarcia.dev/
You are an inspiration to u s all.
I think we can all agree that it's really cool to see a site's creator participate so actively!
Finally landed a JOB 🎉
Congrats noman 🦄
This'll sound weird but... I finally mastered the bass part I had to master for music class that had been occupying my mind and worrying me for a while, and it's a really good feeling. Also my notes/summary was complemented by an IRL person, which is nice since I take them really seriously (I like taking really good notes for me and other people so I can share them and help others with them)
This is awesome! What instruments do you play? I play the piano =)
I play guitar and bass (Now!), haha. I also want to learn to play piano on a basic level to be able to make melodies on there, though. That's still in the pipeline..
I've been wanting to build a podcast site for a podcast I started recording. I managed to do it using Gatsby and the gatsby podcast feed plugin. and I was able to open up a PR to add some rough new functionality. Successful week for sure.
Nice one Antonin~
And I'd like to check out the podcast when it's out :)
This week, I...ticked off most objects on the todo list for the NPO I'm working with. A buggy interconnected dropdown and deployment, are the last things on the list then it's fine tuning time with the client!
A few week back, I posted about how one of my weekly wins was making it through a few rounds of interviews with a potential new employer after sending off an application on a whim.
Today, I'm excited to share that I have both received and accepted an offer as a Front End Engineer with the company!
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I wrote a Brainfudge interpreter in Rust!
I got promoted to Bronze 1 in League of Legends.😅
After a long gap of 6 months I started blogging again and Published a new post today 🙌🏽
Learning TypeScript: Hello world with DOM manipulation
Vijay Koushik, S. 👨🏽💻 ・ Sep 27 ・ 7 min read
Congrats! I know what it's like, the real struggle is just getting over the hill of starting. Hope to see more as I also need to take a look into TypeScript.
Thank you 🙂.
I'm leaving the company and team the helped me grown a lot my soft and technical skills in order to begin a new cycle in another company. And, I have always thought that I wasn't doing my best. And, that I couldn't communicate well with my peers. However to my surprise today, some of my peers expressed real gratitude towards myself for my work and for the knowledge I have shared. Even more surprisingly, my boss encouraged me to keep growing and said that "the doors are opened in case you decide to come back". Now I'm a little sad for leaving rs. I hope that I can keep learning, so that the quality of my work and my communication increase.
I visited Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica... and found a house to rent that we're moving into in November! So happy DEV is supportive of remote working!! 😀
I got the 4 week streak badge 😄
1) Made time to watch the Rugby World Cup with my brother. Cheering for the Eagles and All Blacks this time. 🦅🌿
2) Made it to the gym 5 days this week.
3) Finished my last week at my current job, starting the new one Monday 🤠🤙
Hello DEVs!
This week, I got my 42nd star for ServerMonitor on Github and the first pull request fixing a bug.
Also, I started to rework the whole website UI using TailwindCSS.
Built a live dashboard for our call center in flask
I was able to make
psycopg2work with my python back-end & postgresql! Although, I added and commented out so many things in my.bash_profiledue to needing to use it withpyenvandpyenv virtualenv...Not quite sure how...but it works! 🐍
Not a code related win. But on the very last hour of the week (assuming your weekends on Sunday) I found an apartment in the city I work in, so now I can stop living in hostels and go home grab my main pc and start working on side projects.
And right now I'm going to write my very first Dev.To post and I'm going to try to make it a regular thing to post on here as I've been wanting to start blogging.
Finding an apartment is a very big win. Congrats!
Be sure to share your first post as a weekly win once it's live :)
For so much time I pushed out async/threading/processing but know I feel like I get it.
So all in all, a good week.
I wrote and published jWhisper (npmjs.com/package/jwhisper) for an article I was writing. It's a small RPC library, but it was a fun build and it was super fun to learn about JSON-WSP. So I'll take that one as a win for the week! :)
I started learning JavaScript this week.
And a few days in I started a blog because a developer tweeted that one of his biggest regrets was not blogging about the things he learned.
blog.trythesetips.com/
I have some catching up to do and lots more to post, but at least I got it started.
One day my hope is that I'll be able to look back and use the blog as a reference to things I learned and also look back on it as a record of my journey into programming.
I wrote my first answer on vi.stackexchange.com (Stackoverflow for Vim)!
Now, just a few weeks ago I was a complete noob to Vim, but right now I can help new Vim users in the community! Wow, I'm proud of maself :)
Here's the link to it vi.stackexchange.com/a/21403/22643, and a screenshot :)
Introduced purgecss to my team at work. As a demo, I was able to trim an existing page's Bootstrap-based stylesheet from 160K to 22K. Everyone was impressed. :)
Hi, the main points from this week for me are:
Finally (after stuffing around since Jan) got my own website deployed! 🎉
lachlaneagling.com/
Learnt that for someone who is not a frontend web developer (me) using an out of the box solution Ghost was the best possible option.
Also, the crosspost to here via RSS feed works flawlessly!
I manage to keep writing on DEV for three weeks in a row. Here is my most recent post
3 simple steps to add dark mode support to your DEV static blog generated via Stackbit
Mauro Garcia ・ Sep 27 ・ 3 min read
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I did few exciting things last week
Passed my technical interview of one good software house.
Published my 4th video on my youtube channel.
Watched Jumanji 2 movie with my family and friend at cinema.
Didnt procrastinate at weekend.
Learnt to stay happy :)
So I had a problem with an external React UI library which failed all my tests.
Wanted to fix it but was busy firefighting. I finally sat down last week to fix it once and for all.
Turned out it was because of a wrong configuration of my babel conf file. And it's only 1 line of code!
Glad that's over now!
This week was great!
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My wins are:
Did a proof of concept today to use React portals as a way to better integrate React into our existing codebase. Currently we have multiple React roots which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but loading our roots is expensive because we load our theming in each root. I was able to do this work because we have innovation days every month which are essentially mini hack days.
Been sick for 2+ weeks. But, I managed to write a blog post here after 4 months! Hope I can be more regular going forward.
Python regular expression cheatsheet and examples
Sundeep ・ Sep 23 ・ 9 min read
I also got back on track towards finishing my next technical book.
I learned the basics of Redux this week. People were not joking about the learning curve.
Added new port in my webapp generator: Eleventy SSG, generate a few UI ready boilerplates, and publish all on Github:
Static Site Boilerplates - prototyped with UI and tooling (Webpack, Babel, Sass/SCSS, PostCSS, Light-server)
I wrote my very first article here at dev.to 🤓😊
I added some good first issues to our GitHub repo with the Hacktoberfest label and we already have a merged PR from an outside collaborator. Amazing ✨.
It's always kind of great when you write a tool to accomplish a very specific thing, then realize, "oh, shit: this solves another long-running problem," or "cool: if I make just a tiny modification to it, I can also make it solve this third problem".
I solved three things this week: the one I intended to plus two bonus ones (with only marginal further effort for the third one).
Created a tiny version of glitch.me that I can integrate with chapters on discoverthreejs.com.
Previously I've been using codesandbox, but the embeds are pretty heavy so I decided to spend a couple of days testing how hard it would be to build jsfiddle like functionality myself.
Turned out to be fairly easy! It's not live yet but after 2 weeks work I got all my old codesandbox examples ported over last night 🎉
Learned how to install Dokku on Hyper-V and deploy a node app~
As I've never used Hyper-V (excluding auto-created Docker VM), but after some hesitation, I dove in and got it working.
I've been really inspired to start diving deeper into understanding the awesome technologies we get to use on a daily basis and to help others understand as well. I always have loved making videos and teaching, but just never was disciplined enough to edit the videos to where they're short enough to easily consume nor did I want to take the time to write good blog posts.
I finally decided I was going to better across the board, and so I'm building a tool that's going to help me simultaneously write the blog post, create the video, timestamp everything, and spit out some commands with ffmpeg to cut up the video into clips as well as to edit down the original video.
Really excited about it and will be blogging about it and of course, developing it as open source software. If anyone's interested, the young codebase is here: github.com/technoplato/TutorialAss... and I'll be posting a blog explaining how things work (using the app itself!) shortly!
I started learning Colemak. Typing right now in Colemak itself.
I'm ultimately slow at it.
I finally started writing and finished my first blog post yesterday! Very happy and very proud if it: dev.to/gopeter/how-to-add-a-groupb...
I finally completed a project and handed it to the clients
My wife & I finally bought our first house. Looking forward to raising our two kids and all the incredible memories. 💗
A couple of small wins:
I paid my taxes
Was able to minimize 4 different SQL queries into a single call that combined everything we needed from the 4 calls :)
Hacktoberfest starts next week and I am REALLY excited and look forward to spending this weekend getting ready.
Released the new version of Fake.REST
This week I went to the firebasSummit and did networking for the first time. 😄
I wrote my first DEV post today ✍🏻😇
I was able to demonstrate that my newly written robot mapping package is faster than what we currently use at work. That was fun
Ageism in Tech
Claro A Briones ・ Sep 27 ・ 1 min read
Running a sucessful conference
dev.to/malgamves/my-experiences-at...
Closing off a client project and deploying a live version of a startup.
Final preparations to move a former Intranet page to Azure.
Just waiting for the Certificate and I can switch off the old hardware.
Ran a conference and it went very well!
Thank You from DevFest WI
Abraham Williams ・ Sep 30 ・ 2 min read
Gave my first talk in over a year! #D3 #javascript meetup.com/boston_JS/events/264922...
Launched my new Podcast:
Your Secure Life
No win this week. Had five bad days in the office 😢
Cheer me up 🤗
My first guest post went live on Vue Mastery
vuemastery.com/blog/unit-testing-v... 📗
I was accepted to speak at CodeMash 2020 🎙
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Payrise! So that's going on more energy drinks per day.
Even though I was sick at home I was able to spend some times reading chapters of the book I'm currently reading so I'm happy :)
Well
This week was full of win
changed from android consultant to deep learning / computer vision engineer
I was accepted to speak at my first technical conference!
I will be speaking at CodeMash 2020 next January on Software Quality and communicating technical debt to business stakeholders.
My laptop physically broke earlier this week but I successfully duct-taped it back together 👨🔬.
And I can definitely say that duct-tape is a pretty valid way to solve build-quality problems.
Setting up a backend for a project i did the frontend on.. I'm still wondering if I'm a fullstack developer yet.
Started and completed a small frontend logging library!
github.com/sidhantpanda/logt
Started working on a bug I expected to be complicated but the fix (and unit tests) were simple. its a great feeling