DEV Community: Laurence Ininda

Learning to get unattached

Laurence Ininda — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:45:08 +0000

I recently joined a team working on an Angular project (more about that later) but also had to deal with trying to find a place to live. Yes, at the moment, I am a nomad who decided I would travel to different cities before I settle down somewhere later in the summer.

I recently had that feeling of having worked placed so much effort in learning something and finally have the opportunity to use this newly acquired skill. In my case, I was finally getting the hang of using NGRX for state management on an angular application until I realized that all of the state in the application I was working on was using Services and RXJS 🤯.

And because I very well understood how to use NGRX, it was compelling to see how others had implemented state management without the need for an external library. Needless to say, this was one place I needed to take a step back in order to be reminded that there's always more than one way to tackle a hurdle or issue.

As of now, I will have to delay my desire to have the ideal workstation, and learn how to develop in any space I environment as I travel to different places - and much of this will require a certain level of unlearning and establishing habits that help me become a better developer and person. I have taken to early morning runs/walks to break the monotony of my sun-light deprived room and bumped into this little gift:

Look out for Blog posts every Saturday🎏 and Technical articles every Wednesday✨

Cover Photo by Simone Hutsch on Unsplash

Looking into the gaps♣️

Laurence Ininda — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 02:46:59 +0000

The simplest way I can describe the intersection between having an inclination to write [poetry and code] is that each way of creating is a an attempt to bridge the gaps in the inconsistencies that present themselves in the world that we exist in today. By acknowledging the brokenness in systems, recognizing how fragmented and diverse human desire is – then I find the courage to begin to look into the gaps, plough through my own apathy and cynicism.

New Here!🙌

Laurence Ininda — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:55:07 +0000

Hi DEV community,
I'm new here and hoping to share my work, experiences and ideas as well as learn from you all. I've been reading and love a lot of the work and experiences that is shared on DEV.

In the spirit of sharing, I will share a recent project that I worked on: Rebuilding my personal site. My writing is mostly poetry and prose but getting into writing about my programming work.

Learning goals:

Apply React.js to a Web project
Make the website a Progressive Web Application
Use Contentful to deliver blog posts

Working Site:

Still working on the home page animation and adding a few perks.

Feel free to give me feedback!