Launching my blog 🚀🚀🔥🔥

juju-e — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:39:45 +0000

Hi everyone, today i took a step i always refrained to do these past days, i launched my own blog, check it out at:
blog.snow-blade.vercel.app
I built it with nextjs, you can also checkout the github repo if you're interested with building your own on top of it.
Also, any kind of feedback for improvement is welcome

How i started coding as a teen and where i am now

juju-e — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:31:32 +0000

The beginning

I accidentally started coding at the age of 13 when I saw in a science mag for youth this cool tech called ARDUINO, Arduino is an open-source hardware and software company, project and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices that use c++ as the default programming language, then I started making some researches on this language called c++, this marked the start of an unforgettable journey

Hello World

I still remember that day when after days of struggling I finally manage to link MinGW with Codeblocks and compiled my first program, this was a wonderful moment in my journey as it was the first program I ever made witch gave an output.

Hello problems

After completing the hello world program, I felt invincible as if I could do anything, god...how wrong was I.
C++ is clearly not an easy programming language for a complete beginner like me at that time, I felt so worthless sometimes and almost gave up.

Others

Another problem I faced when I started coding was: OTHERS, I tried to compare myself with others so much that it almost destroyed my love for coding

Learning too much, coding less

When I started learning to code, I wanted to have as much knowledge as possible and already start making Arduino project, but later I found out that this approach was, well...super duper wrong, I sometimes skipped exercises on tutorials so that I can just complete the chapter and go to another without a problem, this was the source of all my confidence problem

Making projects

Later when I discovered what I was doing wrong, I started making projects with c++ as I was starting to completely fall in love with the language.

To git or not to git

I later started learning other programming languages such as javascript and PHP as I also wanted to build cool websites and brag about them to my friends, this is the time when I discovered Github and this technology called 'version control', which could make me manage and view the current, past and upcoming versions of my apps, as I had nothing of real relevance which would push me to use this tech, I just ignored it.

Google Code-in and the power of Linux

Google Code-in(GCI) is a global competition for high school and middle school students that introduces to contributing to open-source, I decided to participate and do tasks for an organization called 'fedora project'. Fedora is a distribution of Linux, so I had to install it so that I could complete tasks easily, i first installed ubuntu to test if it dual boots windows 10 and after a while, I decided to keep Ubuntu as my default desktop and development OS.
GCI made me feel confident i my skills because at the end of the competition i was in the leaderboard(pretty much the top 20) in my organization.

Problems I face as a teen coder

Not being taken seriously:

When you are 15 y.o and want to ask for help or collaboration to a nearby developer, nobody takes you seriously and just thinks you are just YASK(Yet Another Script Kiddie) who only knows to display text and thinks he is great, this is a very big issue I have faced

Not having time

When you code and still go to school you almost always lack the time or the energy to code anything relevant

Some projects i have made

Thanks for reading this article,i hope to see you soon in an upcoming article

The very simple reason why i don't use vim but prefer nano

juju-e — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 23:15:37 +0000

First of all, i know this might be an unpopular opinion of mine, but i had to say this: i prefer nano over vim, did you hear it right Richard? yes of course you did.

The first thing you might wonder is why is this random guy trolling on dev, but trust me i'm not.

First of all, let's make something clear, i have used vim before but i've encountered some little annoyance each time i try to learn it,now let's see the whys of this post.

Vim is hard to learn
I don't have time, i might as well use an IDE
Nano is better
I broke my q letter on the keyboard and can't exit vim

* Hard

Vim is, let's face it, hard to learn, it's facts that's all.

* WTF??

I don't have time to learn how to use vim to it's full extend might as well use an IDE or even better nano

* Nano

Come on, nano is waaay easier to exit and more user friendly than vim or all these IDEs, Long Live Lord Nano

* The real reason

Ok, now's time for the revelation,i've never ever preferred nano over vim,it's just that,😳,i broke my q key on the keyboard and without it, i simply can't exit vim(This is the truth,this is not a joke at all),
So in all my anger and frustration i have to use the likes of nano or Vscode, i mean, who in their sane mind uses them?babies? Come on, real men use vim(or don't)

Hope you enjoyed reading my rant,
From the kitchen, @juju

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