Happy Friday!
Looking back on your week — what was something you're proud of?
All wins count — big or small 🎉
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Starting a new project
- Fixing a tricky bug
- Cleaning your desk... or whatever else might spark joy 😊
Have a relaxing weekend!
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Published my first article on dev.to :D
I got married!
I moved my react js project written in pure css to next js and tailwind css.. I also built it a backend using node js postgress and prisma.
I am proud of myself
I finished 2 entire sections in Scrimba's Module 4 Frontend Developer Career Path and finished all my preparation for my Full Stack Developer bootcamp that starts tomorrow!
Amazing meeting with an incredibly prepared UI/UX designer as part of my search for potential co-founders. After giving my pitch and going over several of my own product plans*, I gave her the floor and was completely, well, floored by her pitch of her own product idea - to the point that I told her, "I should have shut up and let you lead with this. It's my turn to ask to work with you on your idea."
So we'll be exploring that further this week. 😀
*My own product plans are still very much alive (I run a SaaS "product lab" - eventually with some consumer IoT products as well - where each product gets spun off into its own company but uses a model of sharing code between non-competing internal and partner apps where feasible), but the hunt for co-founders continues as she would instead be an external startup partner bringing me on as co-founder and CTO.
Washing my dirty dishes, shopping for foodstuffs, and actually cooking dinner for the first time in over a month.
Super excited that after two years of postponing it, I finally published my first class on Skillshare, teaching React Native. You can check it out through this link if you’d like - also getting 14 days premium free 🙂 🎉
I am kinda getting a foothold with GitHub actions, my current setup is probably not perfect but it gets the job done. I wish there was an easier way to test yml files though, maybe I will just setup a private repo where I test my CI scripts before they go out into the wild
gamedevjsweekly.com/ shared my recently published github.com/bestape/alchemy repo in issue #358.
First repo over 20 stars!
Thank you for the opportunity to share here.
I cleared "AWS Certified SysOps Administrator" certification, my third one from AWS, and preparing for the exam while having a baby at home 😊
We were struggling with ways to make our "Design for The Web" program more accessible cost-wise. We wanted to lower that hurdle, but also ensure the student has their fair share of skin in the game.
We were able to organize a really cool hybrid down-payment + Income Share Agreement that will allow pretty much anyone to take the course with no credit checks and all that stuff... so, we're just thrilled - (but still skeptical because it all just worked out so smoothly... - where's the catch!)
Feels like a HUGE win-win-win.
We also were freaking out because of this new noise coming from the other side of the wall... and thought it might be a heater! and it was really screwing us up! BUT it turned out to be connected to a bathroom fan down the hall / and it just got left on! Whew! That was a close call to a possibly disastrous situation.
I started a new job! :D
Passed 10k total post views in 1 month of blogging and one of my posts ended up being in the top 7 of last week 🙏
I conducted an interview, being the kind of interviewer I wish I would have. Trying to make hiring a little less painful for all involved a little at a time.
Transparency, no whiteboards (at least for associates... I might lose that fight for seniors.), keeping it casual to not play into the power dynamic. Just us chatting to figure out if we want to work together.
Great job. If I've learned anything from interviews, it's that the candidate learns far more about me/company culture (none of it good), than I will about them, by creating an on-the-spot, high pressure, watched/timed environment. Conversely, I've learned that it's far easier to detect BS when the atmosphere is relaxed.
The hiring manager is a tad miffed I didn't do the high-pressure whiteboard interview... this was for an associate role. Either, he doesn't know the code yet, as we know from his resume and the chat I had with him, or he's a hidden code savant and looking at a little login function and asking him what it does is going to be patronizing. Most likely both, it'll be patronizing and useless as we know he hasn't coded professionally. It's better to just have a chat and figure out what he wants to learn and know and what he's researched on his own. I can teach him the code later.
The high pressure, looking over your shoulder approach (not referring to pairing, that's a whole 'nother discussion) has no basis in the reality of a developer job at any level (and if it is a reality in your job, RUN). Any senior dev who thinks this is an effective interview method should know better.
This week I wrote my very first post here! and then I wrote two more posts and gained over 500 views (my very first milestone!). I also learnt a lot since I had to do research before making the tutorials. These are really big steps for me 😄