This week I started my YouTube channel. I've always wanted to do this for the longest time and I'm excited I finally have it up :)

I finally got enough reputation to comment on Stack Overflow after 5 years of being a professional dev

This week I realized that a local coffee shop has a big backyard with plenty of shaded seating. They open up at 7am and never get super busy. It has helped facilitate some super enjoyable and productive mornings.

Random peaceful nature GIF (source):

My biggest win this week would be completing a big rewrite, pulling a 1000+ line, unreadable, unintelligible and untested class into small, understandable and above all unit and integration tested classes. Three days of arg! And WTF!?, followed by: cool it's working! 😁

I made a Last Airbender API and had students at Alchemy Code Lab in PDX beta-test it while learning how to fetch from APIs (bootcamp) and async redux with React (career track). Got lots of feedback, I am excited to create version 2 with their feedback! It is OPEN SOURCE so feel free to submit PRs if you feel inclined: last-airbender-api.herokuapp.com/

Last Airbender API

New blog post! But more importantly, I created reallybad.design for demonstration purposes.

Finally published my portfolio!! You can check it out here! Would love any constructive, positive feedback on it!

knpfletcher.dev/

Gardening! Yeah, I've used this one before, but I'll use it again... it's great!

🌱🍅🌱🍆🌱🌶

Here's a picture of tiny bell pepper plant that's sprouted one massive pepper. Now I just gotta wait for it to turn red...

I gave a presentation "Everybody's a Developer" about the need to be inclusive in our development effort. Unfortunately there is no recording, but maybe I'll do it again soon (if you know anybody interested, let me know).

The Abstract

Join us for this Tuesday evening with Edaqa to find out why our culture must become more inclusive, rather than a war of titles.

In a war of titles, we're increasingly losing focus on what is vital to development. The path to better technology lies in working together, not only as teams but across teams throughout an organization. Let's take a look at the dangers of isolation, specialization and throwing things over the wall. By improving how we view each other, we can improve the product, increase morale, and build a strong sense of self-worth for yourself.

Stop the game of words and embrace everybody as a developer.

I managed to drag myself out of my house to a local meetup for the second time this month. I've been wanting to get more involved locally for a while, so it was great to get out of the house and talk to other programmers.

Improve my SEO optimization skills: adding fonts optimization and CSS splitting for a legacy project is quite challenging if you are a newbie.
Also, writing an article here on Dev, about it:

Seo tips from a newbie

Hope this mention doesn't look spammy. For me, SEO optimization was quite an achievement.

I topped 40,000 reputation on Stack Overflow this week. Pretty pleased with that.

I also built a couple of example apps with the MediaRecorder API (blog posts are on their way too).

And I went to the gym for the first time in forever (I don't really do gyms, trying something new really). 2 days later and everything still hurts. Hopefully this will improve.

Finished posting my first series in dev.to!

I accepted a job offer today! 🎉🎉🎉

In my first week at my first full time job as a programmer:

• I was able to reduce the onboarding of the dev environment from 4 weeks previously (really brittle setup), to just a few clicks. Tested on multiple computers and vms, and it now just works!

• Worked with the trainer for our software to recognize pain points of our users, and already added 3 changes to our backlog, pending dev call next week to prioritize those changes

• Submitted my very first PR!

feelsgoodman

This week, I learned to use koa js for my REST API's and how to use it efficiently. This resulted in an increase in my number of responses to requests per sec and I achieved 2x times the speed I would get using express

Closed two issues on an open source linter (my first ever PRs in OSS) and was invited to become a contributor! Thanks to much to @sobolevn and wemake.services for bringing me on board! Project link here!

Only one possible answer as a Canadian basketball fan

This week I finally got rid of my Google Account !

Bye Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TripAdvisor, Pinterest, Google, Microsoft.
I'm free !!

This Week:

• I was following the tutorial for Cosmos SDK Application. I even submitted a bug in the Documentation
• Pushed 2 PRs on Elastic UI framework
• Started following the Kubernetes from the Beginning Series
• Followed the tutorial on iov/weave framework and submitted a few PRs
• Finished 1 article on Phrase about Globalize.js
• A few other things I don't remember

I extracted part of one of our application code as a separate gem written in Rust using Helix. I cried a lot during the process, but we have gained 50% performance boost, even though most of the time is spent in HTTP requests (which means that the boost in actual data processing is probably closer to 95%).

Super small win, but this week I’ve realized I couldn’t care less about the tools I use (react, vue, node, Django, Ruby on Rails, serverless, typescript, gatsby, serverless, aws, netlify, whatever). For me I enjoy building. And to get better at my craft that means building more and spending less time collecting different bits of knowledge about various tools. Inevitably I’ll pick that up as I build more. Small, but super important in terms of where I am and what brings me enjoyment.

I've found some spare time to play with Zdog (pseudo-3D engine by Dave Desandro), even managed to submit a little PR for a bug I've found on the docs making this my first contribution to an open source project ever!

This week I...

• presented the first webinar in a series at work that I've been planning/working on for a while now.
• finished a weekend project of getting a Raspberry Pi NAS running (blog incoming).
• took a satire writing workshop that was super fun and I've got a few ideas to turn into writing.

I've been working on a keylogger because I want to learn Rust, and that's how I feel too. I know there's others out there, but I won't put mine on github or anything.

I've redesigned my portfolio and deployed my first full stack app! 🎉🎉

That PHPMascot is hella dope!

This week I beat my deadlift goal for the year... 150kg... And I've got another six months to go!

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I've continued to code and started putting myself out there more. All I can ask for this week!

Gave a presentation to our entire project about testing RxJs with jasmine-marbles. I think it went well.

Updated my project named Bord Pi and PR a new topic for GitHub !

Added Pi Hole topic #772

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I finally got my website (95%)finished and live! :) vanaf1979.nl/

I implemented two functionalities - resuming downloads and throttling download speed using Go. 😀

Take over some admin controls.

My win was getting 93% on an end of year exam at university.

• Published the second blog post in my one week old blog here on dev.to :).
• Started the analysis phase for an app that will develop.
• Learned how to Write a project proposal.

My microservice is deployed to the DEV environment. :happyaf:

Now starts a testing period.

:prepare to fight:

I hit a whole bunch of milestones on my new PHP Framework/Library(Currently the main core lib that will power the framework).

Finally got restarted on my diet as well!

I write a code today that ran without a single bug in the first go! That was the biggest such code.
Also I secured my biggest freelance job this week!

Releasing my post on regex in JS, first time in 2 years one-shotting a post! dev.to/andyhaskell/javascript-regu...

Possibly getting my first client. Been putting off making some websites for portfolio. So now I'm going to create few websites this weekend to show client next week.

i will present at vuejs Paris a talk about my vuepress-plugin-docgen :)

Having one of our applications brutally DDoS-ed and not losing more than 10% in terms of latency and success rate.

We got 'em boys!

Getting better with GraphQL. Last week I was struggling a lot to learn and implement it but it's happening now =)