I started a new job!! As a backend developer. This is a huge win for me given that I am In my last year of college. Thanks in large part to my dev.to articles, the interview process was all smooth sailing.

I listened to my interview on The Stack Overflow podcast and didn't cringe to death 😅

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My wife brought home a Stranger Things LEGO set yesterday and we're gonna do some building tonight! 🙌 🙌

I just might consider giving this to my niece and nephew after we've had our fun... that's a hard might.

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so far, I am super happy with my week1 #devProfile stats on @ThePracticalDev site. I did 13 posts & 20+ comments, got 500 followers, 120 reactions to my posts & 4,500 post views. Beats what I usually get on Twitter :) All in 1 week! 🤗
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I joined DEV.to and people actually noticed my little article. I didn't think anyone would care about what I had to say, but some folks did. That was kinda cool.

I resigned from my dead end admin job to focus on Flatiron School full-time! 🎉

Launched meetingplace.io/ (an alternative to Meetup), and got 50 live groups, with over 100 more already registered but not live yet!

I got a new job! I bypassed the interview because I'm an active contributor in a 200k community of Filipino Freelancers and the recruiter got familiar with my name

Started #100DaysOfCode, learning ReactJS. I've always used Angular in the past, but am in love with React so far.

It's shown me the huge benefits of not just sticking to what you know, and at least having an understanding of the alternatives.

I am almost done rebuilding my portfolio I will probably launch it this week! I did not use any third party javascript library or framework so its just pure vanilla and after launching it will be the fastest website I've ever made :D

A former client referred me to a local business which has turned into a regular consulting gig. I found myself signing a W-9 the other day, so I guess I'm a "legitimate" freelancer now?

Finally!!! finished and published first part of the tutorial in dev.to that has been pending for sometime. Feels good :)

How to add auto-update feature in macOS app: Step by Step guide to setup Sparkle framework (Part 1)

Prashant Nigam ・ Nov 13 ・ 9 min read

#macOS #sparkle #tutorial #swift

Three achievements this week:

• After one year of development during my spare time, I proudly released my almost-ready-for-production application in GitHub
• At the sametime, I learnt how to do commits and branch in GitHub
• As a consecuence, I wrote my first post in dev.to :)

Survived a visit from my parents. yuk yuk yuk

Got paid for my first freelance project 🎉🎉 It was a 7-page static site built with Gatsby. I had to integrate the back end with Google Sheets, which was new for me.

I also had fun learning how to download each image (from the sheets data) from the url, save it to a directory and access it, so I could still take advantage of using gatsby-image 🔥

Publishing my first NPM package and my first dev.to article !😄

I finally made a small function on vanilla JS for a project for work :) where previously I would have used jquery which is what I know mostly, this after studying vanilla JS for just a month (on and off). This may seem as a tiny achievement but it's a big one for me :)

I got my girlfriend on GitHub! She's tackling CS50x, and I finally feel helpful.

One of us, one of us...

I'm finished with bootcamp in 4 days. I've used dev.to to help me understand concepts and finish projects. Here are several of the articles I've found most useful:

An Overview of JavaScript Functions

HowToCodejs ・ May 31 '18 ・ 6 min read

#javascript #beginners

The complete guide to JavaScript functions

Code The Web ・ Apr 5 '18 ・ 9 min read

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #beginners

4:11

Javascript This Keyword

Maksim Ivanov ・ Mar 30 ・ 1 min read

#javascript

Callbacks and Promises, Simply Explained

Ryland G ・ Jun 18 ・ 6 min read

#javascript #beginners #webdev

I've finally solved how to implement authentication for the app I'm currently working on at work. This is actually quite complex as it has to integrate several existing webapps with an external authentication service built by another vendor.

Finish migrating our ui lib's storybook from v4 to v5.2, add its new docs addon, refactor all the stories to the new structure and improve things!

It was a one and a half week of work. It felt reaaaaally good 😊🥳

I leave tutorial hell !! after some time try to figure what to build with react, I create a simple dashboard using github api. github.hacasoftware.com/
There are still a lot of work to do !! but I am kind of happy with the result so far.

A couple of things:

• I organized the first DigitalOcean community meetup in Sofia, Bulgaria 🤩
• I’ve got to 100+ followers on dev.to 🤘
• I’ve got 1000+ contributions on the DigitalOcean community forum 🚀

It’s been a productive week! 🥳

Finally found another active maintainer for the project I adopted a year ago

He also happens to be an old friend of mine and we've been having a lot of fun bringing the app up to modern standards 🙌

I broke 2000 views for the first time on my latest article here on Dev! The outreach potential on this platform is just magic to me and the community is the most positive I've ever been apart of!

Let's Take a Look at CSS in JS with React in 2019 - Styled Components

Phil Tietjen ・ Nov 14 ・ 7 min read

#webdev #css #javascript #react

I almost finished my React-Gatsby project for the end-of-the-year KPI, a nice portal where all monitoring/autodeploying tools are shown and are ready to be used in a single page (read iFrame). Super happy to have understood pretty well now use and pass of props among components, composition and dynamic CSS.

I got unblocked on some legacy code that I've had to retrofit to work with some React components we're using. All it took was a couple of days of deep focus, i.e. no Slack/email.

Aside from that, some cool things on the horizon.

And lastly, winter is officially on in Montreal. That's good and bad. Good that snowboard season will be starting soon though.

So many interesting comment, well done all!

Here is my win situation:
1) I am in the beginning of an online course. However, It was just a Practice Set, but I am pleased to build a Simple screen Android app without error( Some Buttons, TextViews). It works as I expected, yeah.

2) It is not programming related but I am also pleased that I was able to do my running training this week. After a summer injury, this is a bonus happiness:)

Technically I started 3 weeks ago, but I finished it this week (due to focus shifts). I guess in total it took me about 16 hours to set up a somewhat extensive integration test of our enterprise software. Something that a few test engineers were not able to setup in the past ~4 years.
I used Citrus Framework to send messages via JMS to our system, with some SQL verifications, etc. With not a lot of work I was able to verify a large party of basic business logic. Validating even more seems quite simple at this point.
In fact, I'm looking into ways to extend Citrus Framework to make certain things even easier, while others can apply this framework to increase QA of our product.

This Citrus test I set up is now part of our CI/CD pipeline, which runs every day to verify our product with the "demo" configuration to check if it works with the trunk and most recent release. This significantly increases confidence in our product (for demos) for our (pre)sales department. So they are not afraid to upgrade to the latest release.

My plans are to use the same approach to set up integration tests for various customers so that we know their setup still works in newer releases.

Started learning Webflow and decided to not get stuck in "Tutorial Land" as I felt Webflow was a bit complicated.
Tried out a little something of myself - made something using my existing portfolio website as mockup.

Webflow: emeruche.webflow.io
Original: coleruche.com

I still have a lot to get hold of in Webflow, though.

Fixed a lot of little bugs on codeurdejeux.com and reviewing the code of the original project that seems to be an abondonware available on my GitHub account, and trying to make things much more funnier then Facebook

A lot have to be done on bledtube.com but proud to have created an opensource plugin for YouPHPTube that let people to start uploading their videos from a third party site aka wasabi and posted it to gumroad asking anyone using it to fix a price without trolling the head project

So, two social networks clones, one of Facebook and the other one of Youtube but not made to be concurrent but just the way I want things to be instead of haveing to use them as they want me to do

Making it to top 7 posts in Dev :D

Had workshops with a customer and they went very well (imo) and managed to end our current sprint with all my issues resolved (it was a lot)

I finished everything I needed to and more before vacation so I dont have to think about work for the next four days!

participated in my first tech meetup and completed my second web app using react and hooks 💪🏻

After many previously failed attempts, I finally started understanding how things work in flutter and built a very very basic hacker-news app.

📣📣📣

My DEV shirt arrived today! The perks of having an awesome girlfriend in the top 7 @paulasantamaria

Deployed my first helm chart at work this week!

Got confirmation from React Norway that I would join the conf as a Speaker 🎉🎊🎉

The team I work in completed our first sprint since moving to follow the Scrum framework this week! Productive one too.

I crossed 100,000 views, got 7000 followers and wrote 2 paid guest posts. So Hooray!

I attended my first Development Conference 🤗

Finally got to set up terminal and listery to get rid of that mouse dependency...

I wrote my first article for Codrops on the new GSAP 3 features.
First time I wrote for a blog other than my own.

tympanus.net/codrops/2019/11/14/th...

I survived another Black Friday 🤣 with no downtime to my clients websites 🤓 (compared to prev. years)

Completed a design for a website idea I've been working on. Also, I finally posted an article to this platform!

Julie Effing Lerman, Queen of Entity Framework development in .NET and kind of a big deal, quoted me and featured some of my content (and dev.to) in her keynote in Kiev.

Shipped a bunch of progress on a side project 🎉🎉

Posted

GitHub: In Case of Apocalypse, Open This Arctic Code Vault after 1000 years in Svalbard + GH Mobile App

Shahjada Talukdar ・ Nov 14 ・ 1 min read

#github #git #opensource #career

Got some seriously great progress into tests on three projects, using Cypress. So very excited about this.

I have finished all stories of the sprint 💪

I've got an article published on a tech webite!
This is its translation to english:

My challenges and the evolution as fullstack dev

Mark Kop ・ Nov 17 ・ 4 min read

#career #javascript

60% done with my Text Detector app. Hoping to finish before this month ends

Great week learning, both at Flatiron and VueMastery. Planning my next Rails project and am so excited.

Fixed some critical bugs on Friday and got a raise. Overall not a bad week.

I finally started to move forward with my personal project! Setup most of the things and started development, very excited about that!

I don't do deployments often. My win was deploying a website to a live environment, via Jenkins. It didn't crash! :)

Someone who I look up to because of how hard working and accomplished they are told me that they're proud of the hard work I'm doing and what I've accomplished.

Legit shed a tear.

Finally finished my portfolio and started applying to jobs.

I reached 500 followers this week. Thanks for all the love everyone!

Ticked off the last thing on our list for my daughter’s birthday party tomorrow 🥳 🎉 🎈

Finished a feature at work that's been a huge pain for the past few weeks. Glad to have it behind me. It's no fun working on a terribly outdated app (Rails 3, CoffeeScript and Backbone).

My biggest win this week is to finally managing what to learn next! especially with my full time job , I'm still trying to have some time for webdev.

I went for a job interview at my university today (Digital Education Ambassador), I think it went pretty well 😄.

I started my first Sofware Engineer job this week. A dream job at an amazing company!