What was your win this week?
Jess Lee
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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small π
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 π
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I got my first engineering job! It's a 3 month contract and I'm an apprentice software engineering, but I'm so pumped!
That's awesome Michael!
Congrats and best of luck mate!
Thank you!
Redid my website to include the crash courses that I've been posting π
chrisachard.com/crash-courses/
Then got 258 reactions to the ES6 one on DEV! π
dev.to/chrisachard/es6-mini-crash-...
Good for you fellow developer π
I completed 2 new fun projects which are both time-related libraries written in TypeScript βΊοΈ
github.com/analizapandac/convertib... and github.com/analizapandac/time-turn...
And my team was able to finish a big feature at work that we've been working on for weeks π₯
This week was a pretty good week! Has a whole bunch of wins, both programming related and not:
Great week!
Welcome to the home owner club!
Thanks!
Still can't believe someone thought I'm responsible enough to sell a house to.
Never mind trust with a few hundred thousand dollar mortgage...
I made a new NPM package called
projectman(github.com/saurabhdaware/projectman) which got 28 stars today and also wrote an article about it on DEV and it became my first article to reach 100+ reactions and it just makes me so happy to see people are liking it!I also started learning Rust and wrote my first "Hello, World!" program in it! (I freaked out when rust threw an error for camelCasing function name π)
Finally got my portfolio site up.
I've submitted 2 PRs to Gatsby, and they were both accepted! A first for me!π₯³π₯³
Finally announced my new book series to the world (dev.to/deleteman123/new-book-serie...) and finished the second chapter! I'm halfway through the writing process, and starting some marketing strategies.. I'm so excited!
I survived a real rollercoaster of a week at work and started prepping a "lunch and learn" for colleagues on Gatsby π
I've got next week off work and looking forward to some good coding time... Maybe even finally updating my portfolio!
I added scrolling inside my chat app for programmers over SSH, and it's available here from any command line:
dev.to/vitalipom/ssh-chat-2e18
I bought a new
ishcar!It will make my ~50 mile commute a little nicer π
Wrote small article on devs and got over 100 followers
My winnings:
I managed to improve the application and upload a patch in the repo github.com/pajbot/pajbot
I lost 10 pounds.
I won by playing for fun and betting on a CS game. Star ladder in Berlin. I bet on Avangar only that without the handicap 400 usd ;-) esporttalk.org/t/new-legend-stage-...
I finally managed to buy a standing desk that can be controlled electronically!
So much more fun to work from home a couple of days again and boosted my productivity a little.
Replacing my old setup with this one was a lot of fun on its own but it was more fun to work with the new setup afterwards π
Only need a second monitor again.
Recorded my biggest video section in a single day. S3 is brutal.
When making content its really hard to know what to not include.
There's always this phantom voice of others saying (we'll you can't leave that out!)
Last week I was notified that my talk proposal for GitLab Commit London was accepted. And now that my travel is scheduled I'm so happy to share it with you. It will be my first time in London and my first conference in English
At this week, I'm fighting with millions of data records with CSV formats and import them to MySQL database.
To store large data records, some tips are as follows:
LOAD DATAto import CSV data records to MySQL database table.I made my first post here on Dev.to, I'm very happy, I postponed it for a long time. It's not perfect, but I need to fight perfectionism. π
Dark theme for (almost) everything
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Pass 100 open-source apps generated with automation tools.
Full info in this article published on @Medium
Created demo TARS from Interstellar with Pythonπ€
Started working on an API for my app and wrote this post, it got 1050 views!
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A few. Had some articles featured on dev.to and Medium. Also got NgRx master detail views working in my Angular 8 hobby app and completed a large feature at my day job. Continuing to write regularly as well.
First commit at my new job π , tested, reviewed, approved, merged and all.
I'm looking for my first junior position. I finished my portfolio and updated my resume and CV and made a boilerplate cover letter then I applied for 4 jobsπ€
Got my 16-week-streak badge! It was tougher than I thought to be consistently interesting for that long.
Finally fixed my Vita slim. Discovered I can now apply an exploit (henkaku enso) for playing games so I've been pretty busy with it. Also finally shook off my writer's block. Back to my comfortable writing goals thanks to pomodoro.
Managing to pick apart a mess of spaghetti code that linked a new system to an old one, and rewrote it with everything separated into meaningful classes and fully tested! Now I just have to teach how and why I did it π
After months of convincing my enterprise employer to adopt PWA, it's finally happening!!! ππ. One of our most revenue-driving apps is finally getting a makeover by my team π₯³π₯³. PWA is the future of the web.
I finished one of my small personal side project called
"Slovak public holidays" and published it to NPM.
gitlab.com/paulnoth/slovak-holidays
npmjs.com/package/slovak-holidays
Saying that a personal project is finished is a thing to be proud of :)
Really enjoyed reading everyone's wins. Some are small, other are big, but they all matter!
Here are mine:
Understanding React Hooks a little better after working on an API based project
Releasing this single page portfolio template - Minimis
My follower count on dev went up from 2 to 250 in two days!
My App which React TypeScript Todo Example 2019 Mid was added React+TypeScript Cheatsheets! ππ
And finished write README for My muriatic React Data Sharing Library!
My first post in a long time (darn writer's block) got featured on DEV's Rust feed on Twitter and pleasantly surprised me with this in my notifs <3
Well as of September 6, I finished a project as part of the legacy application retirement project I am on at my banking client. It was expected to be a 3 day fix but ended up being two weeks due to tricky usage of xsl inside of jsp templates (I did say legacy!). It's in QA and about to hit production end of month.
Started a new analysis for a new project which will solve a logout issue in the legacy application, I am one of those rare folks who actually enjoys looking through old Rube Goldbergian code bases to figure out what madness led the teams who build these evolutionary monstrosities to make some of the choices they did.Prior to the project above I worked on an analysis that functionally decomposed a major tool in the legacy application and with that knowledge rebuild the tool using current generation Spring Boot and Angular front end. Super fun.
Started a 7-months-long Python Bootcamp. I'm after 2 intensive days and it feels good so far. Learning with real human beings is a completely new level in comparison to learning alone from online tutorials. And I don't feel like a complete idiot, which is also a plus π
I managed to not start implementing pattern matching in my language as I'm not fully decided on everything yet π
Instead I did some fuzzing session with AFL which found around 20 bugs (all fixed as of now), and lead me to rethink some stuff on variable declarations, which was great.
Last session was 10 hours, 12 millions execs and caught 8 bugs, I'm hoping to do even better now.
I managed to develop an automation tool for my company using chromedp in Go.
It isn't really a part of my job, but I liked the idea, so I took it up.
chromedp was pretty vague, with not so beginner-friendly documentation.
But my interest for working with chromedp increased pretty soon - as soon as I found out that headless chrome works like a charm.
chromedp is for automation using Headless Chrome in Go.
Do checkout their GitHub page and see if it interests you.
I just received a job offer.
I finally decided lo learn typescript after a long argument with myself. I was content with my knowledge in JS and I thought a language that decorates JavaScript was unnecessary. Learning typescript was the best decision. Now I can rest at peace knowing that I won't pass a string to a number type variable π
I have a bunch.
Started practicing web typography with Practical Typography and a couple of resources to make my content form readable.
I'm also improving my custom Hugo theme.
It's on its way to v2.0.0. :D
I finally published a new blog post about Rust and it's (obviously) also on DEV!
Started working on CLI mode of my first proper open source project!github.com/Tanuj69/instagram-api
Finished a major update on a mobile app.
Passed 4,000 React codebases exported with Divjoy π
Edited my first post, and added my second one.
Horrible week: learnt the many quirks of Kendo UI the hard way, while adding new features to an old Spring app. Ugh!
I learn an Exciting skill, that is React-Router and another is Got 3TB Dropbox Cloud For 1 Year Free.
and Amazing is I slept > 4.6 hours in 48 hours!!!
Removed useless transaction internal Guava Caches in SirixDB (sirix.io) and introduced a form of pointer swizzling more or less :-)
Wrote 3 posts and recorded/edited 2 videos for my blog.
But the bigger win of this week was joining Dev.to, of course π