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...

This week, I...felt like I got some good synchronous work done with @ben & @peter . Also this tweet :D

Stack Overflow

@stackoverflow

We're excited about this too 😊 twitter.com/jessleenyc/sta…

20:03 PM - 15 Aug 2019

Jess Lee @jessleenyc

I'm so excited about the @StackOverflow tag on DEV! There are so many good questions that can be expanded on without a right/wrong answer, and so many good answers that can turn into deeper discussions 🤗 https://t.co/yzhbMaT26w

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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

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!

Ben Halpern 🎉

@bendhalpern

It's back to New York after an awesome wedding weekend in Nova Scotia.

Seeing so many of my best friends all in one place was the most fun I've had in a long time. I need to make it home to Halifax way more often.

22:08 PM - 11 Aug 2019

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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. 😄

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:

Fix mention notification to mention proper user #3721

benhalpern commented on Aug 14, 2019

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

• [ ] Refactor
• [ ] Feature
• [x] Bug Fix
• [ ] Documentation Update

Description

The bug was introduced here: github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

Fixes #3718

View on GitHub

Good week 😄

I've launched my own blog 🥳🥳
dorshinar.me

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. 😀

Signed up to do my first tech talk at a work organised meet up! Also I’m now on holiday for 2 weeks 👍☀️☀️

I automated updating dependencies for my site. 🔥 💪🏻

Nick Taylor

@nickytonline

@ThePracticalDev I automated dependency updates and changes I make to my blog (not content) thanks to Cypress, Netlify and Dependabot. Cypress caught a UI regression when I updated my burger button tonight. 🔥 github.com/nickytonline/w… #DevDiscuss

01:58 AM - 14 Aug 2019

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And of course I wrote a post about it. 😉

Update Dependencies with Dependabot, Cypress and Netlify

Nick Taylor ・ Aug 16 ・ 6 min read

#testing #automation #cypress #netlify

This week I found out that 2 of my colleagues indirectly joined the company because of me 😳

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!

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! 😍🚀

VS Code extension that shows the initial value of a CSS property

Dzhavat Ushev ・ Aug 13 ・ 1 min read

#vscode #css #beginners #showdev

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!

Not quitting my job.

Just put the "finishing" (Is anything ever truly finished?) touches on a Gridsome starter I've been working on!

Site Preview: gridsomeairtable.netlify.com/

Repo:

// gridsome.config.js //
module.exports = {
  siteName: 'Site Name'
  plugins: [
    {
      use: '@gridsome/source-airtable'
      options: {
        // Add these to a .env file
        // Details on finding these values can be found at:
        // https://gridsome.org/plugins/@gridsome/source-airtable

Today I found a subtle bug at the core of our platform which only happens on the production database (mongo) and can't be reproduced locally. I got to the bottom of it and still can't figure it out.

But the fight isn't over, and I have a plan on how to win! 💪

I got to learn, practice, and (literally) play with the gamepad API, and create a small demo... I'll try to build something a little bit larger, and write a post about it, if I find some time during the weekend.

Alvaro Montoro

@alvaro_montoro

Playing with JavaScript and some different APIs.

I was able to draw my own virtual SNES controller... and then control it using an actual SNES controller.

#javascript #webdev #gamepad #html #css

12:36 PM - 16 Aug 2019

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I was accepted into a computer science master's program! (part-time so I can keep working) I'm incredibly excited about this :D

I was not able to get Auth0 authentication working in my NestJS project. I also asked for help here:

Using JWT-Authentication (Auth0) with NestJS 🔐

Matthias 🤖 ・ Aug 14 ・ 1 min read

#help #webdev #security

I was struggling with this problem for a few days, I then took a break and didn't touch my code for a day or so.
I started again with a clean mind and could solve problem within an hour 🥳.

That's why I love programming, you always have this great moments when you achieved something 💪
And normally you have this little breakthroughs every few hours or days (depending on the size of your projects). For me, that's the most motivating thing in my job!

BTW: I'm writing an article on how I solved it 😉.

Starting a new project which now it's almost half way. It's basically a rewrite of a project I did some time ago for a Google Drive sync client.
The old project is fully functional but written in Javascript and not intended for low-end devices. Also some issues with memory management with V8's garbage collector (reading a big file takes much memory which is't freed) led me to think about using other lang.
Golang was the chosen one (although it has a Garbage Collector) after some tests trying to reproduce the same issue affecting V8.
Check it out here: gogdrive(1)

I developed a new feature for our Angular app (even though I'm a React dev at heart with no Angular knowledge) that was praised by the senior dev and our CTO!

This was right before I edited live data in our production tables while thinking I was on the test server :D

firstDevJob

It was a great week. I got accepted into the GitLab Heroes program. And my talk proposal about "Mentoring New Contributors on your Open Project" was approved for the first Open Source Software Contributors Summit that will be celebrated next month in Guadalajara, Mexico.

I merged the branch(es) allowing Tuples in Gwion.
More importantly, I fixed a few memory issues, so that I can do

./gwion $(repeat 20 ls **/*.gw)

launching Gwion with approx. 20*600 files.
That's quite a win.

The non-profit org I'm working with loved the mockup I did on balsamiq cloud 🎉🎉🎉

I fixed an annoying issue and wrote a post about how to fix it!

Finally finished the first build of the scheduler part of a generic scheduler-agent-supervisor application I've been working on. Will be open sourcing to git hub and writing about the Dev on here soon.

Finished my 2.5 month summer internship and got my first real world dev experience!

• Holy cow, I now have 4000 followers on here?

• I have a phone interview with a startup recruiter and an on-site interview at a university next week!

This was a very good week
One of the best over past few months.

1) Learnt Figma and UI prototyping on it.
2) Finally Rolled out long time update on my app on the play store.
3) Added a ton of features for the next release.
4) finally felt in the zone throughout the week.

Not crying at work and giving very firm handshakes. 😂

Getting more involved in the dev.to community.

Asked for feedback to help me finish my CV and applied for an internship (I'd been procrastinating this for months).

I placed 1st in a Hackathon that occurred in my college last Wednesday, followed by a job offer the day after :D

Phase2

Launched divjoy.com on Hacker News and stayed at the top all day. 15k visitors and a ton of feedback 🙌

I wrote a blog post after quite a long hiatus. And the best part was that I decided on the topic in the morning and published the post before going to bed on the same day.

• Completed building my first CLI application!
• Pass the project review!!
• Wrote a blog post about my process!!!

in ur sprintz, closin ur ticktz

I'm taking some time off next week. Doesn't seem like a win to most people, but when you work in the environment I do with the tendency to overwork that I exhibit, it's a pretty big accomplishment. 😅

Progress on raising money ♥️🙏

It was quite a big one. Understand how to make a Microservice in .NET, configure Team City with Octopus for CI, learn Dependency Injection in C#. It felt so good 😍

Finished my first freelancing project.

Today is my birthday!

This got published this week.

opensource.com/article/19/8/how-cr...

Wrote 2 articles for dev.to, excited to publish soon.