Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month!
Additionally, I will share some posts highlights on what post I am proud of sharing to Dev.to and my top 3 posts that stood out to me this month!
✨ Dev.to Posts Highlights! ✨
Here is one of the posts I am proud of for this month!
Made a Gemma 4 submission that featured @javz, @konark_13, and @codingwithjiro on their use of Gemma 4! I hope that this post will win in the top 5!
Here is the top 3 posts that I have discovered that stood out to me!
@sylwia-lask @freshcaffeine Battle of the Titans about their opinion on Tailwind. Loved their view on Tailwind and why they liked/disliked it! (I like Tailwind haha. I know I say top 3 post, but I would count this as an exception as one post)
@klaudiagrz A fun short and sweet post about sharing her experience on how engineers view documentation from her perspective as a Technical Writer!
@jasmin A post about LLM API Calls using GIF to show what it looks like in a simple way.
Monthly Discovery 🔍
- 🔍 NPM oopsie 🫡
- 🔍 Duolingo, but you are a programmer
- 🔍 A kid who hacked the Pentagon
Accomplishments 🏆
- ✅ Made a couple Pull Requests and got 3 Pull Requests merged onto Forem!
- ✅ One Pull Request got merged onto the Virtual Coffee Website!
- ✅ Submitted the Gemma 4 Post.
- ✅ Cleaned up the DEVenger Org and invited great-minded individuals featuring:
- ✅ Continued interacting with the Dev.to community.
Still working on... 🔨
- 🔨 Clean up Resume.
- 🔨 Clean up my portfolio and publishing it on Dev.to for Review.
Goals for Next Month 🎯
- 📝 Continue Forem Contribution.
- 📝 Continue Virtual Coffee Contribution.
- 📝 Clean up Resume.
- 📝 Clean up my portfolio and publishing it on Dev.to for Review.
- 📝 HackerRank clean up and learning Ruby!
- 📝 Continue interacting with the Dev.to community.
Feedback 💬
- What else should I do for June?
- Any questions/comments/advice or tips for the Monthly Report? Leave a comment below! I would love to hear from you!
Top comments (7)
Thank you so much for the mention! I had so much fun with those posts too 😁
No problem! Had fun to read your guys post on just Tailwind :D
Thanks @francistrdev for the mention it really means a lot and motivates me to write more! ☺️
No problem Jasmin! Keep it up on the visual examples and glad that boost your motivation!! :D
What a month! Lots of stuff happened!
What is your motivation for learning Ruby? That is one of the first languages I learned when I began programming.
Hey Julien! I looked at the projects I have done so far and I notice that Forem uses Ruby on Rails. Since I don't have any projects using Python (Other than the CS Tutor back in 2022), my as well learn Ruby. Might be good for me to not use AI too much since I notice I have been relying on it 90% of the time, which isn't good for me.
How was your experience in Ruby? Curious since I heard it is similar to Python and more Object Oriented.
Thanks!
Ruby isn't the most efficient language in terms of resource consumption, however it is very expressive making it an enjoyable language to program with.
For example you can do this in Ruby which feels close to human language:
5.times do
puts "Hello"
end
The Ruby on Rails framework built on otp of Ruby is also an argument. The framework introduces the MVC pattern which is a healthy breakdown of frontend and backend components, especially for beginners learning how to program. I feel that with Next.js these days, the line between what code is run in the backend and frontend becomes blurry at times.