About: I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
Hey everybody! 👋
Hope y'all're all having wonderful weekends.
Whether you're sharpening your JS skills, making PRs to your OSS repo of choice 😉, sprucing up your portfolio, writing a new post here on DEV, or just straight chillin', we'd like to hear about it.
Take care of business and make sure to enjoy the weekend!
How to be more efficient in making unit tests, and how to make less of them.
And your other post has also given me inspiration to go write an announcement post for the project that the unit tests are related to, but that post in particular gave me inspiration to play around with a different kind of formatting.
Without giving too much away, I think a lot of posts on here and other platforms are usually way more clinical and professional in nature (than necessary). Obviously, this is in part a logical consequence of writing on a public form and for the general, broader public (and potential employers/client) to see. But in doing so, we might make it too academic and detail oriented OR conceptual.
In a lot of aspect of my life, this has been a struggle. But as I seem to communicate better when I don't try to be meticulous in my explanations, I'd like to experiment with a more personal touch. Or perhaps, how to write in more accessible and relatable ways.
But also... more unit tests. I'm really excited about this tool/project and I can't wait to release part of it. The unit tests were partly yak shaving in learning how to write and optimize unit tests. (And actually do offline stuff.)
I coded all night to make my first visual novel! It is too short, very awkward but it is made by me! ✨
Else I will keep increasing my knowledge in Python, HTML and game design 😊
I am currently participating in the Coze AI hackathon.
1) Built a Twitter media downloader bot, where it downloads images and videos in different resolutions. You can also set reminders of interesting tweets comprising of some particular media that caught your eye. in my case some devs share AWS 3 tier architectural patterns etc, where I can tell the bot to remind of this in the future.
2) Giveaway Picker bot: when a tweet URL of a giveaway contest is given it checks for the actions mentioned in the tweet (like, retweet etc)
And actively executes the function (get Likes, getReplies etc) appropriately and check which of those users has done all of them, then randomly selects one winner.
I am not going to spam by giving the links to these two bost, if you are intrigued you can check it out from my profile.
Happy dev hacking guys
Those were some seriously cool submissions Sojin. I looked'em up on your profile. Nicely done!!
thanks for being nice Mike. but I didn't won the hackathon. Was a bit sad about it, but the best may win right
Dang! Well, you still created some really cool bots. I hope the experience was a positive one on the whole and that ya continue to participate in these challenges. 🙂
Planned to learn about data structures and algorithms in detail and implement it in the languages I know
I am learning that I simply cannot cram everything I want to in a single day. Everytime I do, I crash and burn. Not sure why I haven't figured this out over the several decades that I've been on this planet, but today , I finally decided just to do as much as I can and then use a calendar to efficiently spread out my workload.
I know that sounds like common sense, but I promise you, I used to pack as many things on my calendar into one day like a knucklehead.
Very relatable! It's easier said than done right? Anywho, def a good habit to get into. There's only so much you can do in 24 hours!
I am working on making a zapier clone. For anyone who haven't heard it is an automation tool that lets you perform some action when some event occurs. Eg. Send a discord message every time an event is created in the Google calender, etc.
It has been a really great learning experience. Got to learn a whole lot about OAuth workflows.
For anyone interested this works by either registering a webhook on the service or by polling an endpoint regularly. Out of these the webhook system is done and I am currently working on polling part. You can check this here
This week is really hard for me. I will have an interview tomorrow and all this week I prepared for it. It will be C# junior interview and I did a lot of researches to be prepared for that interview. After my first work this is the first interview so I don't know what to expect. Please help me if anyone has some recommendations.
so i got this idea:
so you can enter a prompt
and it will use music theory to create a 20 second intro to that prompt
will also help you build upon that idea
will have a credit based system (gotta pay to get credits)
will tell you all the music related techniques used
i gotta validate it first and then if people like it i'm gonna start working on it