Chingu Weekly Vol. 29
Pair-Programming lifestyles, jobs-jobs-jobs, and people learning/ building all over the place aka just another week! :)
News & Random
— Congratulations @tan for getting a Full-Stack Developer job!!!
— Congratulations Faiz Ahmad for getting your new developer job!!
— Congratulations @jlouzado for accepting a Full Stack Developer at NissiAgency this past week!!!
— Congratulations @coffeecraftcode who just got a Front-End developer job starting this week!!!
— @rpemberton — Congrats on getting your new developer job!!! https://www.samknows.com/
— Congratulations @vampiire for getting your front-end cert…in 58 days (;p)!!
— @gustav — @gustav, the creator of the React study group in Chingu-Central, is building Pair-hub (screenshot pictured above), an open-source Pair-Programming connector! It’s still in development but you can signup early here (which I highly recommend!). Also, if you want to get involved feel free to shoot @gustav a message in Central!
— Reminder, all cohorts are going to be renewed in June! For existing members, sign up here. For new members, sign up here.
Note on the Moonshots Lab Updates
Last week I started a new section for Moonshot project updates and showcases. I originally planned to have a small section in these Weekly Updates, but feel that these showcases demand a separate space, so we’ll be experimenting with having an article published later in the week with those. Keep your eye out for that this week. ;)
Shout-outs & Showcases
@TEAM qbotdevs — @diemano & @Egkrateia — @diemanoand and @egkrateia came together for a Build.to.Learn project and created the concept and splash page for qbot!! Below is a screenshot, but you can see this beautiful page live here and the github repo here.
@agathalynn — Another Build.to.Learn project, this time by Abigail(shout-out to Project Facilitator @periman!). The project is called FCC bot! It’s a cool bot that allows you to get info in FCC challenges while in slack!
@vera — I’m not sure if this is a new daily writing goal by @vera, but I sure hope so! Check out the short articles she wrote this week: Facing your Fears & About Compromising & Fighting our Demons.
@icartusacrimea —Here we go! Check out @icartusacrimea’s finished Game of Life project!
@mkw2000 — Shout-out to MKW for the following message he wrote in #daily-logs: My boss at my current job has us clocking in with a sheet of paper (lol) so I started building something to help everyone clock in and log their hours, and automatically tally everyones hours up to make payroll easier. Im building it with Meteor which I’m learning as I go along
After @mkw2000 wrote that, @jimrhead wrote the following: @mkw2000 I sort of do the same with my work. My business were guessing retail prices for imported stock. So I built a calculator that we use on a regular basis. It’s great because you are building a project, but it’s accountable experience for a client that improves productivity
That’s what I’m talking about! Finding creative and impactful ways to apply coding skills (which help harden those skills)!!!
@vampiire — @vampiire is one of the most passionate coders I’ve ever come across (shout-out to @florinpop’s love of code challenges!), and here is @vampiire’s Simon Game.
@blueboy121 — Have a look at @blueboy121’s Tic Tac Toe game here!
@dami — FOR ANYONE READING THE YDKJS BOOKS! Check out Damilare’s Medium page, it’s chalk full wonderful and digestible articles about the Books&Chapters. You can check it out here.
@kornil — @kornil worked on this! He said it best: about the react thingy: 2 containers, around 3 components + algolia, 3 different APIs, typescript, and my job was to take algolia(database) out of the equation and change it to our own api and I’m proud to say the code is now magnificent.
@byunsta — Big bad @byunsta at it again with a gourmet recreation of Apple’s website!!! Check it out here (screenshot below). P.s. @byunsta works at Marvel ;p
@pkh1162 — I got to give Paul’s hair, which you can see in Pair-hub user section, a shout-out. That’s some miraculous flow right there! haha
@oliver — Check out Oliver’s Simon Game!
Chingus of the Week
This week the honors go to @agathalynn and Damilare!
@agathalynn — Recently, Abigail has been on fire. Not only has she been one of the most active members doing the Chingu-FCC Speedrun (in the last month she finished 12 FCC projects w/ medium articles), but she also just demonstrated the POWER of high-agency learning and perseverance by single-handedly (with the help of her team’s Project Facilitator, @periman) finishing the wicked FCC Bot. Prolific, determined, and positive, Abigail is someone we can all look up to and learn from. :)
@dami is the type of person who wants to learn the material thoroughly. And because he has that attitude, and is WILLING to work until he truly understands the material, he’s going to do great things in this industry. Legend in the making right here!
Not only have I seen Dami’s presence in the cohorts grow in the past few months, but I’ve heard from more than one person about Dami’s presence in the P1xt Study Group. Above that, someone even left a comment on the Replacement Cohort Survey (in the section about leaving a comment about something you enjoyed in the cohorts) about how much Dami has helped motivate others. This is what it’s all about! Pure and simple: that kind of inspiration is why Chingu exists.
Quote to Go
This week we’re going to remix a few quotations from one of my favorite writers, Jorge Luis Borges from Argentina. A wonderful soul, and his words thought about in a technology context could be useful (and at the very least interesting). :)
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. [makes me think of learning frameworks & languages that may not last]
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a woman or man finds out, once and for all, who she or he is.
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. [haha “thoughts when first starting Javascript in 2017” ;p ]
