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Translation Helper

Rushan S J — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:35:52 +0000

Hey there ! For the the #ActionsHackathon21 I created something...

Translation Helper

My Workflow

Please see the official Translation Helper repository for the latest instructions on using translation-helper!

My Project

Submission Category:

Wacky Wildcard

Link to Code

https://github.com/RushanNotOfficial/translation-helper

Please comment down below if it's proper cuz I'm a first timer to such stuff.

Single Folder Git clone?

Rushan S J — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 06:58:11 +0000

How do you clone a single folder from a repo?

git clone --no-checkout <link>
cd <cloned folder>
git sparse-checkout init --cone
git sparse-checkout set <Folder Name>/
git checkout

Voilà !

Developer Profile Packages - Why and Why not

Rushan S J — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 06:14:49 +0000

Maybe you've heard.... or maybe not ?

I just realized a thing.
You can make your profile as a package. And not just a package, a dev profile on pypi (pip) or npm. Virtually any package manager.

By making a cli app in python (pip), .NET (nuget) or node (npm), and globalizing it, you can make your app spit out information about you when its called.

Why

Well, its just a cool and creative way to show people your dev profile.

Why not

Some times, It just isn't cool. If you make a package with the name as a username that's related to a actual package, you're in trouble. For example, there is this package called pyplot in python but to install it, you would run pip install plot and not 'pip install pyplot'. Any new developer who wants to just download code and run would find it tough when the error says to install pyplot. Naturally, the developer would run pip install pyplot and then, you someone made a dev profile package called pyplot (might be their username?), the new dev would get further confused when the code doesn't work.

Workaround

You could perhaps name your package as profile-pyplot instead of pyplot which doesn't confuse people but some (bad?) developers would not listen to this and continue confusing people.

"With great power, comes great responsibility"
- A nice developer.

Hacktoberfest 2021 - How it went for me

Rushan S J — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 15:41:46 +0000

Who am I and why did I participate

I joined Dev.to to read blogs, post blogs and learn new things. I mainly wanted to join hacktoberfest because I really wanted to plant a tree. #TeamTrees

Background

I was just a average kid in school about a year ago. Now, I learnt that coding gives me happiness and is a really good excuse for coffee too.

Progress

My progress went a lil' terrible. I had my exams so, I was always studying. Then, on 27th and 28th there was Github universe which I had enrolled in. I had to attend so many sessions that I didn't get sleep at all. Then, on 29th and 30th, also I was awake the whole night.

Contributions

I contributed to 5 repos. 2 were related to blockchain, 2 were related to web design and the last one was a list of things todo list.

A dev new word - Condensing

Rushan S J — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:41:51 +0000

Hmm..., You already know what is condensing? Maybe not. You might have heard about pickling which is converting an object in a character stream. This character stream can be used to reconstruct the object and the object retains its properties.
I made a word just like it !

Origins:

There isn't a word for some stuff so, I made one.
I thought about it while writing my exams. (I'm in 9th grade)

Meaning:

Ok, let's imagine that we have a web server which renders a web page about blogs. When a user posts a blog, we save the content to a file and then render all blogs written so far in a page. The process of getting content and saving it to a file is called (Drum roll) Condensation.

Q. Why did I choose condensation ?

A. When water vapour (in our case, raw data),
condenses in liquid water (ordered data in
a file) is called CONDENSATION. 🤣

How would you use this word ?

Examples are:

I built a micro service to condense the users data.
Let's process the condensed data

NOTE: Condensing doesn't mean to write data to a file. It simply means to get data from a remote/non-local system. (In our case, a web server hosted on Amazon Web Services)

Btw, you're free to use this word anywhere. No Copyrights. 😅

What do y'all think about this post? Lemme know in the comments. Bye

Coffee - A Dev's Heaven

Rushan S J — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:07:56 +0000

Comment down why coffee is good for you ?

A bad day with coffee is always better than a good day without it.

If you searched for the words programmer or web developer on Google images a few years ago, you will be flooded with pictures of hackers with hoodie working in the dark on the matrix-style screen,

In the last few years, thanks to a lot more freelancing and remote working, the idea of programmers in the world has changed radically.

A treat in common among the majority of the picture online and the image that people imagine when thinking of coder in a bit more indie now.

It almost always includes an Apple Mac, a pair of earphones and a cup of coffee.

(No offense to the non-mac folk.)

Usually in a day, coders/programmer/devs drink about
2-4 cups of coffee. For those who are just starting out, it doesn't mean that drinking coffee is essential if you want to become a good developer.

It makes you smarter and more energetic

This doesn't mean that you'll have your brain preserved in a museum or hit 200 on your next IQ test but, coffee allows you to focus and ofcourse, makes you smarter. It has been scientifically proven that when caffeine travels to the brain through blood circulation, it blocks an inhibitory neurotransmitter called Adenosine. When this happens, there is enough room for other neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine to increase. This leads to enhanced firing of neurons.

It just makes you happy

This is another thing that caffeine is not the culprit of. The National Institute of Health has found that people who consume coffee are less likely to be depressed by ten percent. As I said, this is not because of caffeine as coke also contains high amounts of caffeine yet it’s linked to depression. Scientists believe that this benefit of coffee comes from the antioxidants it contains.

Okay, enough talk about that, let's discuss about the actual brewing of coffee

There are many different ways of brewing your coffee.
For example, you could choose the smooth and delicate tasting coffee (arabica) or the bitter (robusta).
Arabica is good for the usual coding but when you're working late night on a thousand line (maybe hundred ? but the point is that you're way past your bedtime) program, it's better to choose Robusta because, it's bitter flavor combined with the high levels of caffine helps you feel less tired and keeps you awake for longer. (Please don't drink it before you goto bed)

Also, the roasting of the coffee matters.

The different level of roast does not determine the amount of caffeine on it but each roast has a different flavor.

They go from a light roast (also called ‘half city’) to a darker roast, almost black, called ‘coal’.

During the roasting phase is when the coffee maker adds flavors to the mix, you can find coffee with dried fruit, vanilla, and chocolate to name a few.

The secret is in the water. The quality of your coffee will be as good as the quality of your water, period.
It is advised to use filtered or mineral water and use the when the temperature is just under the boiling point (90°C or 200°F).

Usually people drink black coffee but this can burnt your oesophagus and can cause cancer. As a developer, adding milk is a good idea as it lowers the temperature of the coffee and you don't have to wait for your coffee to come down to a drinkable temperature.

If you made it till here, great job.

Thanks for reading 😀.

The night owl's guide to 6 am

Rushan S J — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:36:57 +0000

So, you chose to be awake the whole night... It's not gonna be easy.

Step 1

Get some sleep before pulling an all-nighter. If you don't get enough sleep, you're gonna sleep before you know it. You need to give your brain enough rest.

Step 2

Ok... It's 11 pm. If you have an important job to do tomorrow then, you should probably goto sleep. Maybe you still want to stay awake?
You can trick your brain to stay awake but turning on the light and drinking lots of water. So now, you're basically a plant (maybe?). If you really tired but still don't wanna sleep, get some coffee.

Step 3

It's 1:00 am in the morning. You're soooooo tired that you can barely function. It's good idea to take a power nap for about 15 minutes. Just don't sleep for more that 30 minutes cuz you're probably gonna wake up at 11 am in the morning. This is you're final chance to sleep. If you goto sleep after 1:30, you will wake up pretty late and end up missing your office/school (I go to school).

Step 4

At 3 am in the morning you should get up from your bed and maybe do some jumping jacks and pushups. (Just don't make a lot of noise if you are illegally pulling an all-nighter. If you get busted, don't blame me 😂).

Step 5

It's 4 am and I am giving you an out-of-out (💯). Just don't close your eyes to imagine yourself doing heroic things or you will end up going to sleep. But most importantly Just stay A-W-A-K-E !.

Step 6

Now it's 6 am (See what I did here😁). Start doing something to keep you busy and get yourself a cup of coffee (Or maybe 3 ?? 😆)

Step 7

Yaaaaaaas, it's finally 7 in the morning. Brag to your friends that you stayed up the whole night😎. Just don't stay awake for more than 2 days in a row. (Believe me, I've tried it. Tis too dangerous).

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"Just stay awake the whole night" - inspired by me, written by me.