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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
Happy Friday!
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I signed up for dev.to and wrote a post! It's been a long time coming.... :)
Here's the post: dev.to/chrisachard/use-react-hooks...
I also wrote my first dev.to post this week. Your post was great!
Thanks!
Yours looks great too - (and a lot more complex than mine! π)
Just means I have a greater chance of botching it and finding myself looking a tad bit goofy. Poor planning on my part. π€£π€·π»ββοΈ
Congrats!
Sweet. hope to see yours again and again!π
Thanks!
This week, I...felt like I got some good synchronous work done with @ben & @peter . Also this tweet :D
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It was my last day at my job, even when I will miss my teams, I'm happy to start a new chapter, to learn new things and especially to get to know more people
It sounds like a mixed feeling. I've only left workplaces when there is nothing to miss about anymore, so I can't easily imagine your feeling, but it must be really complexed.
Hope all the best for your future!
I was home in Halifax attending the wedding of one of my longtime friends Bradley (in the purple blazer below) and it was a really great time!
I've known him since we were about 11 and we went to the same high school and college, so it was a reunion of folks I've known from all different contexts. That pic includes on high school friend and one college friend. π
And then I got to get back to work and feel pretty refreshed. It's been a while since I've been super "available" for small coding tasks, so I was happy to make a few solid bug fixes like this one:
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The bug was introduced here: github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...
Fixes #3718
Good week π
Oh, one more thing! I read this book and really loved it.
American Kingpin: A Software Crime Thriller
Ben Halpern γ» Aug 15 γ» 1 min read
Oh neat! I'm adding that to my reading list for sure. Do you know of any other similar books?
I've launched my own blog π₯³π₯³
dorshinar.me
Looks awesome! π
Thank you very much!
Wow, you made me a bit guilty. was (one of) my to-do list for summer but not sure if I can make it. Should stop being idle and have to do whatsoever. anyways, Congrats with yours!π₯³π
Just do it! There are great starters for Gatsby and the community is awesome!
I love how the dark theme is your default! I'd buy you a beer just for that!
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Yeah I really love dark theme. In the article I've published I said I'm all "dark mode ALL THE THINGS".
Including my heart
Went to Asheville over the weekend and visited the Moog factory... it's like Willy Wonka's factory but with synths. The front store area has a bunch of instruments with headphones plugged into each one, so you can easily jam out in your own little world!
I was grooving pretty hard on the theremin and probably looked pretty ridiculous. π
Signed up to do my first tech talk at a work organised meet up! Also Iβm now on holiday for 2 weeks πβοΈβοΈ
Nice! Giving talks can be nerve wracking - but you'll almost always learn something; plus you get to share you knowledge with others which is always cool. Good luck!
Thanks! Yes Iβve done a bit of public speaking before just never in a tech setting. I suspect Iβll be fighting the old imposter syndrome more and more in the build up but hey youβve got to push through these things sometimes and just βship itβ sometimes!
Yep :) Good ol' imposter syndrome...
Good luck on your talk!
Thanks!
I automated updating dependencies for my site. π₯ πͺπ»
And of course I wrote a post about it. π
Update Dependencies with Dependabot, Cypress and Netlify
Nick Taylor γ» Aug 16 γ» 6 min read
This week I found out that 2 of my colleagues indirectly joined the company because of me π³
I run a software development studio. For last year my accounting was more like management accounting without giving me much details on anything specific. I took this week to fix that.
Now I have signed with an online accounting platform and all my accounting is now pro style. My CA can understand it and I don't need an accountant to take care of it.
It's a big win for me. I can see my updated financial statements everyday.
Migrated our codebase from React version 15.4 to 16.9! Needless to say it was a very tedious process!
Ah! I'll bet. Does anything stick out as being the worst part? I have some old codebases that I'm not looking forward to updating...
Everything went perfectly fine until it came to upgrade React Router from 2.8 to 4... Things got a little bit out of control, but thank goodness for git!
Ah yeah - I'll have to watch out for React Router too. Thanks!
In one of my personal projects, which is a WPF application, I've managed to get it to connect to a Firebase database with Firesharp and get/set data. Now I'm just looking to create a sign-up/login form to have the data connect to a particular user.
Never used Firebase before, but Firesharp was really easy to pick up and understand.
Released my first VS Code extension and wrote a post about it. So far it's been installed 189 times which is amazing! ππ
VS Code extension that shows the initial value of a CSS property
Dzhavat Ushev γ» Aug 13 γ» 1 min read
identified a customer that was a flight risk through a post in a large Facebook group -- got our team on it so we could fix the issue before they churned!
Interesting!
Not quitting my job.
Hang in there!