Had a eureka! moment earlier as to how I'm going to COVID-safe my house for trick-or-treaters...

It involves puppeteering a mechanical arm from behind a super creepy looking horned figure, that my wife and I made from a decorative mask, some tattered cloth, and her sewing mannequin.

No mechanical arm in that photo, but you get the picture. We're going to open the window ☝️ and have this creep hand out candy on our behalf.

I love Halloween! 🎃

I've started to run a11y tests before any build/deploy, I do care about a11y, but I still got a lot to learn in that area.

It's not bullet proof, but it's a start.

I had a lot of firsts this week! 🎉

I released my first ever Gatsby starter and wrote my first ever article at Dev!

How I developed and deployed my optimized website within a day

gmlunesa ・ Oct 30 ・ 3 min read

#webdev #beginners #javascript #tutorial

Had a much needed 3-day weekend to rest up 💆‍♀️ and I finished my yearly Goodreads reading challenge 🥳

Of course, completed my third year of Hacktoberfest 😄🎈
And I continued my website under NuxtJS.

This week I completed 1k reactions on my DEV posts and 30k+ views. It has been a wonderful journey writing on DEV as it has helped me in understanding the concepts better.

I got two nice milestones on my DEV dashboard : 2k reactions and 100k views. Gives me motivation to reach 50 published articles - 2 more to go.

I created a CSS called Keyboard CSS. You can use it to showcase your keyboard shortcuts... 😊

Repo: github.com/shhdharmen/keyboard-css
NPM: npmjs.com/package/keyboard-css
Website: shhdharmen.github.io/keyboard-css/

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/keyboard-css@1.2.4/dist/css/main.min.css" />

npm i keyboard-css

yarn add keyboard-css

Well, today I had my review period completed, and boom! I completed my first ever Hacktoberfest 2020 🤘🤘🤘
Looking forward to doing this every year from now on.

Got a new customer, yo!

Wrote a small Helloween-themed CSS snippet. I wanted to do something like this, but I lacked the inspiration.

I'm really how it turned out. I'm currently reading Lovecraft's stories and I've decided to go along with the theme and create something based on Lovecraft's work.

Enjoy at your own peril. See if you dare link the Tome Of Darkness to your mortal soul.

I completed my first ever hacktoberfest 🎉

It was really an amazing experience & I am looking forward to contributing more in the coming time 💪

Well, I had a few tiny wins.

• completed a research paper on Video Recommendation Systems.
• started paying attention towards my physical health. Exercising daily and taking adequate rest.
• trying not to get over stressed by the plenty work at hand. Just doing little bit at a time.

So... cheers 🍻

I contributed 4+ PRs for Hacktoberfest 🎃 and earned the One Year Club badge for being a part of the DEV Community for at least one year. 🙌

• A much awaited release of our songs on all music platforms, 8 years after recording it and 15 years(i think) after being in this band. I play the lead guitar. This has 2 filipino songs and 2 english songs.

• Started building the mailing list for the community im building
  mailchi.mp/92bc4c3eda83/newsletter...

• Was granted by the Department of Science and Technology a Scholarship Grant on Coursera
  

I made some updates to my halloweenti.me project that I had never done before. Including.

• CSS animations
• Open graph / Twitter cards
• Optimizations for load time (deferring Javascript, etc)

I added the 2**6th question to DailyC++Interview just today. I've learned so much on the road!

Well I did lot of things this week! ✨

• Wrapped up my 2nd year of Hacktoberfest :D
• Updated the responsiveness of my portfolio site.
• Contributed to 4 major Open source projects!
• Learnt a bit of Kubernetes.
• Completed #30daysofGCP challenge!
• Read 30+ blogs on Dev.to 😎

& learned how to make a pancake 😂

1. Got my "congratulations for coming aboard!" CTO meeting.
2. Set up a meeting to work with another startup under my "umbrella of startups working on modular code that benefits multiple startups" model (a technical co-founder so I don't have to do all the coding work, and a recent boot camp grad - never too soon to start!).
3. Finally signed up for Y Combinator's free Startup School (gib vouchers blz). PG's initial post on ideation is amazing.

Fixed navigation problems in our app.

Launched my website/blog 🙌 It's not much (yet) but it's honest work 😄
alexzher.dev/

I published my first technical blogpost this week 🎉👩🏻‍💻

GraphQL, You're Intuitive and Flexible, We'll Be Friends

Eevis Panula (she/her) ・ Oct 29 ・ 6 min read

#techtalks #graphql #womenintech