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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Getting a promotion!
- Starting a new project
- Fixing a tricky bug
- Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄
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This week, I...flew from NY - SF and immediately jumped into 4 hours of meetings. Just proud to have made it through the day :)
4 hours of meeting! I'm wearing out just imagining it. FOUR! Hustle train ain't stopping! 👊
Learned and configured all about the Jackson Object Mapper in Java, wrote my own deserializers in order to configure fields I couldn't access and started configuring some integration end to end tests on what will become a key feature in the roadmap of my company for the future!! I'm happy :)
This week I've reached 600 contributions on the DigitalOcean community forum!
digitalocean.com/community/users/b...
It feels amazing to be able to help people with all kinds of different cases.
Completed my first technical challenge as part of a job interview 🤓
Good luck!!
Finished a pair of massive features and kept writing, despite a nasty cold.
I gave my first meetup talk this week! 🎤
It was in the DEV IRL TLV meetup.
Thanks for whoever listened, the DEV community is fun and positive IRL too :)
Awesome!!!
Nice! What was your talk about?
It was a about making a blog with Gatsby and netlify.
Already learned a valuable lesson: live coding is much slower if you're holding a microphone in one hand :)
Haha I bet!! That's awesome!
Just uploaded a video of it. Sorry about the background noise... youtu.be/NyACQxpXza4
I earned my first badge on DEV 🏆😁
How do I do that 😶
I'm not sure what all the badges are, but theres "streak" badges for if you post 4/8/16 etc weeks in a row 🙂
That is soo cool
Woohoo!
Yesterday I decided to forgo both a masters in management and a coding bootcamp to pursue self-taught software engineering. Today I finished Berkeley's CS61A Lesson 0 after getting my first development environment up on my computer (Python, GitBash, and Atom). I was a little too proud about setting up that development environment, even though all it involved was a bit of installing/uninstalling... >.<
Setting up a dev environment is hard! Congrats!
Agree, congrats for taking that step and killing it!
Thanks for being so supportive!! :D
Half of my time goes on env setup. Keep going!
I saw from your profile you are an English teacher, good luck for your career path! I also worked as ESL teacher before getting a job as software developer. Anyway, from my experience vscode is much better than atom but I haven't used it in a while so maybe it got better
Sorry for the late reply!
I've actually tried downloading vscode, but bc I'm the noob that I am, I had a hard time figuring out how to use it. Atom seemed simpler to use.
Do you think it would be better to use vscode though? What features are good about it?
When i made the switch from Atom to VSCode the thing i've noticed the most was performance. Atom was very slow even with my personal projects. As VScode has become the most used text editor I guess it's a good idea to learn how to use since your future colleagues are probably gonna use that too, at least that's the case for me. I didn't do much in term of setup. Just install it, browse the extensions library and install what suits you the most. I' not sure if Atom has it, but vs code now has a live share functionality which is super useful as it let's you screen share. I've already used it several times with my senior.
Thanks!! The live share functionality sounds great. I'll definitely download it and see :)
Atom's teletype has actually been around much longer than VSCode's LiveShare, which I think is almost the same thing (I myself don't use either so can't say for sure).
Good for you! Best of luck on your journey, you definitely chose a great community to be involved in!
Thank you!!
I’m so glad I joined dev.to ^
This week, I..was able to show the uploaded csv in my django project to the template
Managed to publish new content on dev.to after a long time! Been working on it for a few weeks after working hours, feels really good to finally put it out there.
Welcome back Heidi!