Had an increase in responses last week. Thanks to @francistrdev for the shout out in their posts. I enjoy hearing what you are building and learning.
What are your goals for the week?
- What are you building this week?
- What do you want to learn?
- What events are you attending this week?
This Week's Goals.
- Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
- Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own project.
- Update Content & Project Calendar for April.
- Blog
- Events.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee
- Friday attend a Lunch and Learn Cypress
- Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
How I did last week.
- Job Search.
- ✅ Network
- ✅ Apply
- Project work.
- Content for side project. * Worked on an storefront. Also did some CSS art. Still working on it.
- Work on my own project.
- ❌ Blog
- Events.
- Dallas Software Developers (virtual) * Only caught part of it.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee
- ❌ Thursday * Solving Cross-Team Accessibility Challenges with Cypress * Platform they streamed on would not load.
- Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
This series got mentioned by @francistrdev in their post about checking in on people.
Your turn, what do you plan to do this week?
- What are you building this week?
- What do you want to learn?
- What events are you attending this week?
Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.
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Top comments (46)
Thanks for the mention Jarvis! I appreciate it and glad that post made an impact!
I did get off the wait list for Virtual Coffee as I mentioned in my latest Monthly Dev Report. I will try to see to join their weekly zoom meet tomorrow!
Great work again :D
What's Virtual Coffee? Is it a place for developers to meet and hangout? Can I join?
As far as I looked into their website, yes!
dev.to/virtualcoffee
You can become a member by joining their wait list.
virtualcoffee.io/resources/virtual...
I recently got an email that I was off the wait list and now all I have to do is join their weekly meeting and I am in their Slack channel (becoming a Full Member). I only notice this group since Jarvis is part of the org and I was interested in joining. Seems quite chill tbh.
Ok nice. I'll check it out and see whether I get off the waiting list. Thanks for the help.
Congrats on becoming a full member. Do tell me your experience of attending your first virtual coffee.
Will do! :D
I've checked the comment section: @francistrdev and @konark_13 You two should probably exchange numbers or meet up for a coffee.
Just saying
Good idea Nyanguno.😂
We got carried away in this comment section. Both would be virtually since we both are in different countries. But yea thanks for the amazing suggestion.
Yea feel free to email me your discord or we can stick to zoom. Was wondering if you still wanting to set up Forem
Yes, definitely I wanna set it up and start my contribution. I'll email you about everything in a day or two. Sorry for the delay.
Too bad. You two are vibing.😀
That's good. Isn't it. We might build a new startup together 😂.
You should.
I wonder what the startup will be. If you two were to start a startup, what would it be?
I think the talk we had so far. It's about community and virtual coffee and wpm and github. So, maybe a mix of all these.
A platform where seniors developers in open source can guide and help write better PRs or have a chat over virtual coffee about the issues new devs are facing. But, for better ideas we need to sit and have a chat and find something an issue that's common to both that we can solve together.
This is actually a brilliant idea.
Let me know once you guys have launched the startup.
It's a place for developers of different experience levels to meet and talk. We have 2 weekly coffee chats, Tues 9am EST, Thurs 12:00pm EST. we just talk for an hour. There's an active Slack where we chat daily and support each other.
Sounds too much fun and a very interesting way to learn from developers. I would be starstruck seeing and listening to all of you talking. One day, I'll join and have a coffee with you and learn from you. You seemed pretty awesome and quite insightful. Thank you for clearing my doubt.
My goals for the week are
There's a game called Z-type. That might help. It's like space invader or Galaga, where you shoot alien ships. But the aliens are word and you have to type that word to shoot the ship.
ZType – Typing Game - Type to Shoot
That sounds too much fun. I'll definitely try it and get better at wpm. Thank you so much for the website and sorry for spamming your comment section by me and Francis.
Good luck. Sometimes Hardest part on writing is starting. More you type faster you can go.
Thank you so much Chris. Any tip you wanna provide for a beginner writer like me? What you feel quality is better than quantity in terms of writing?
What's your WPM? 👀
Just took the test after you asking. Don't laugh okk😅
Well tbf, It's has been awhile so not sure if I go higher or lower. What's the website you used?
I tried on this
Typing test otherwise I like a mac app for typing and practice. Since, I write articles I need to use the keyboard correctly not just with 2 fingers🤣.
I'm fine. 63 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 39 🫠.
congrats make it to 70 wpm when you got time. I'll come back stronger.
Ehh it's fine man. At least I am not that one guy who does 400 wpm. Now that is actually crazy. I think you will be fine. At least you don't have OCD like me where I type a whole sentence just to delete it and retyping it again 🫠
What 400 WPM is that even real. I only heard about finger keyboard that enhances typing speed but 400 is way out of league. I think that's the secret to your heavy WPM. Typing deleting then practicing. Let's make this a monthly battle if you enjoy typing and do you do that when you coding as well? I think we should start typing with nose and then compete with each other then it will be fair for both 😂.
My bad it was around 300 wpm. For some reason I was thinking higher lol.
Monthly battle? Bet. Let me make a post really quick about that xd
Also for coding, I don't go that fast, especially if I am thinking then typing lol.
Sure go ahead. Let's see who tops the typing challenge.😝
Here ya go: dev.to/francistrdev/what-is-your-w...
GL or something lol
I'll be:
I'm going to participate in my first Game Jam! I don't expect to win, but actually, getting anything done in two weeks would be a victory for a lazy person like me. 🤔
Good luck! Sounds fun :)
Hey Chris, thanks for the check-in!
My goals for this week:
I actually built a Terminal-based portfolio! 😂 It fits my Kali Linux vibe perfectly. Why use a standard UI when you can use a CLI?
Doing a major refactor for dotShare and dotfetch (part of my open-source DotSuite) to make the UX much smoother and user-friendly.
Smashing through all my goals for the April challenge!
Have a great and productive week everyone!
Hey Jarvis, nice goals you have there. Best of luck this week!
On my end:
Thanks, good luck with your goals.
My goals are:
stay away from my abusive ex and keep power so i can stay on my laptop. oops, too real! i meant to say- finally put the remu.ii device together on the esp32/tft touch screen ive acquired!
Finish off github.com/microsoft/RustTraining/...! I've been enjoying it way more than I thought i would hah!
Solid goals, Francisco! Working on DevOps and shifting to Golang in the same week sounds like a heavy lift. I’m also looking into some Go-based tools for automation lately—the performance delta is hard to ignore. My main goal is just to finally clear my 'Read Later' tab before it becomes a 'Read Never' tab. Have a productive one!