Chingu Weekly Vol. 41
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.”
News & Random
— Congratulations @wjelen26 who got his first software developer job!
— Congratulations @ksmai for having your Regex project added to a P1XT Guide!
— An ode to contributing to open-source! Congratulations Francesco Agnoletto who had a PR to draft-js-plugins successfully merged!
— p.s. we broke paperbot in Voyage! ;p People have been sharing so many resources that paperbot is now limiting Voyage to 100 links per month due to “over-usage”. Might have to find (or build) another solution.
Showcases & Shout-outs
@BUILD-TO-LEARN — JD Richards & Daniel Segovia — One of the first teams to finish their team project this Voyage! They built Timezoner, a Slack bot for communicating time between remote team members in different Timezones. Even though this team may still make changes to the project, I couldn’t help but drop a shout-out here for the team. They’ve worked together extremely well and their team dynamic will be one for other teams to emulate in the future. Check out their splashpage here and below is an example of the clever bot in action!
@nat — Natali Davydova wrote an article for with 6 tips for all Chingu Project Managers!
@BUILD-TO-LEARN — @exsqzme — Mike Aldave started on a team last session and soldiered on to finish this awesome app called Regex-Dojo! @roxroy worked on the project as well in its early stages.
@BUILD-TO-LEARN — @vannya — Van Tabbert so kindly made a helpful walkthrough of a project startup. I definitely recommend checking it out and you can see it here.
@benjaminadk — Another week, another creation from Ben Brooke! This week he wrote a How-to article for Node.js beginners. In it he writes about Social Media MetaTag Generator app!
@jdmedlock — Jim Medlock wrote an article titled Doing Less in Your App to Give More to Your Users, and I recommend checking it out!
@kornil — Francesco Agnoletto wrote an article on how he got his first developer job, and gives some SERIOUSLY helpful tips! Check it out here.
@smendoza787 — Sergio Mendoza wrote an article called Networking as a mild introvert!
@ecccs — Evaristo Caraballo dives into the depths of the resources shared in places like FCC Gitter and Chingu in this article.
@BUILD-TO-LEARN — Ishan Jain put this wicked Imgur bot for Telegram together! Here is the landing page and here is the github repo!
Chingus of the Week
I want to take a moment to thank all the adventurous beta-testers who have been graciously helping teams by testing out their projects.
In the past few weeks members have helped the Dev-Gaido team, the Pair-Programming bot matcher team, and the profile bot team. And I have a feeling that with all the industriousness going on here, there’s going to be plenty more beta-tests happening in the near future. :)
What is so wonderful about this is that it allows the developers involved to get more well-rounded sense of how to think about their applications being used by others. If people are getting stuck somewhere, you know some tweaking is in order. It’s an ongoing learning process and I’m happy to see these sessions sprouting up!
Quotes to Go
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. — Henry Miller
