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Weekend Hacking -- What Projects Are You Working on This Weekend?

Chase Stevens on February 08, 2019

Happy Friday, dev.to! We all have interests and areas that we want to explore, and we also have obligations during the week. The weekend is a gre...
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Corey Wilkins

I think this weekend is dedicated to working on my personal website, or starting it I should say!

I also started down the journey of picking up Ruby, so I look forward to hearing what you have to say about the MVC architecture of RoR. Happy hacking :)

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Chase Stevens

Awesome! My personal website is just plain ol' HTML and CSS but there are 100 ways to go about it! Gatsby has a ton of great docs and performs really well, and Jekyll would help you make your website and be another step in your Ruby journey!

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Corey Wilkins

I've mostly worked with React and Gatsby, but I'll definitely look into Jekyll. Thank you for the advice!

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Christian Gill

I'll be working on tsearch.io. A search "engine" for TypeScript functions. PoC is ready and now I have to start making real improvements.

I started a dev.to series about it two weeks ago.

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Chase Stevens

That's awesome! Glad to hear the proof of concept is ready (although that can be the most fun part to build).

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Christian Gill

It was the easier, that for sure. The stuff that's coming seems harder πŸ˜‚

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Chase Stevens

Just remember that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the code! (or something like that.

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Christian Gill

Indeed!!!

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Ugwueze Vincent

I'm still new in the dev space. I've watched a lot of videos on HTML, CSS and JS, but no project to show for it. This weekend, I want to start working on something. However, I have no idea what to start working on. I also want to build my CV and portfolio, but I've got no projects and experience. I need help on all these.

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Casey Brooks • Edited

The best way to learn is by just doing, and a great place to start is by building something you want to use! Even if it's something that has already been made a million times, and something that you don't really expect anyone else will use, it's just so satisfying to use a tool that you built yourself.

As an example, I play a lot of board games, and I love to make small scorekeeping apps such as this one. It's a simple concept but with enough complexity for me to learn. Making a scorekeeper is my go-to for learning a new language or framework, which is much more interesting than the standard to-do list or weather widget apps!

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Chase Stevens

The world's your oyster! If you want to dive right in, I'd recommend Free CodeCamp's Web Design Projects to serve as a starting point. You can also refer back to their lessons if you need a refresher!

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Casey Brooks

I'm working on creating an Orchid plugin to generate Groovy doc sites!

The first step is hooking into the Groovydoc model to get some JSON, and then Orchid can make it pretty like it already does for Java, Kotlin, and Swift.

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Chase Stevens

Very cool! I'm always interested in seeing how all the static site generators from different languages (Gatsby, Jekyll, Hugo, Orchid) stack up against each other performance wise. Here's to the new site!

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Casey Brooks

Orchid is still quite young and I haven't done much perf optimization yet, so Gatsby and Hugo definitely are the top winners here. But Orchid has an advantage over Jekyll with large sites, as Jekyll tends to get really slow after a few hundred pages while Orchid's architecture actually improves build performance with larger sites.

You can see some actual numbers in Orchid's Netlify deploy logs. The latest build did about 500 pages in ~80 seconds, with median page generation times are at 11ms (hugo is <1ms). Definitely not winning any awards there, but certainly good enough for code doc sites integrated into a CI pipeline!

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Chase Stevens

Good to know! Maybe next weekend I should mess around with Go and Hugo

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Mihail Malo

Banished a pesky dependency after achieving output parity with it.
Got to delete a lot of code. Feels good.
You probably don't wanna see. It's gruesome.

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Corey Alexander

I've got a Package Tracker personal project that I might work on a bit this weekend! It's a Ruby on Rails app that (optionally) looks in your Gmail for any Tracking Numbers and add them to the system. Then it sends you notifications any time your package moves, and a dashboard of any upcoming packages!
Been alive with me as the only User, so working on getting a better frontend and squashing some bugs before I go out and find some more Users!

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Sdu

Working on slim launcher. I wanna rollout a beta soon. I'm learning how to use ConstraintsSet and TransitionManager to animate a swipe gesture. I'm just struggling with a few details that I have to figure out this weekend

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Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez

Since my daily job is kind of quiet I will:

  1. Start a new series on writing a data validation library in Python, just to show how to use metaclasses and descriptors.
  2. Close some feature branches in kenobi, my implementation of a Python Language Server for Emacs and Vim users
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Chase Stevens

Sounds like a plan! Have fun : )

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Jonas BrΓΈmsΓΈ

Doing some yak-shaving on older projects and made a few PRs for the Perl static-analyzer (Perl::Critic). Luckily for me, the following week is winter holiday so I can continue spending working on project. Planning to make progress on either my first Rust project or a Vue-Perl-Mojolicious integration prototype I have been thinking a lot about...

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ItsASine (Kayla)

I fixed my Netlify builds tonight. I had been meaning to fix what was under Github Pages and was using their domain settings to get back to working as expected using Netlify builds and domain management. Did that!

Next up is putting my initial work on my grad school Capstone project on Github

ItsASine / pokemon-data-analysis

SAS analysis using Pokemon as a dataset

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SAS analysis using Pokemon as a dataset


I've done the data gathering and cleaning, so I have that available. Third step for the weekend is to start looking at doing the data viz component.

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Gareth M.

I was going to try learning some C in the context of low level hardware programming, bare metal, etc. I also wanted to do something like make a simple USB driver for Linux, since I’ve seen some tutorials on this.

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Chase Stevens

That sounds cool! Definitely a level deeper than I've ever dived down into. Would love to see the results and learn how a USB driver work.

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Ben Halpern

I'll be on a little vacation this weekend so nothing intense, but I may take some time to mess around with some new stuff. Maybe a bit of Python, a bit of Rust, and I've been also meaning to dive into some Google Cloud magic APIs including some Tensorflow stuff.

No real coding mode because I'm looking for a break, but I will be following my curiosity. πŸ˜„

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Chase Stevens

You've earned it! Maybe one day we'll have AI-written dev.to posts :)

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David KΓΌnnen

Will be working on devsnap.io

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Chase Stevens

The site looks great! Are you working on a new feature or making performance improvements?

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Meghan (she/her)

github.com/nektro/andesite

It's a custom file server that allows you to whitelist access to folders/files using OAuth2. Been working on it since December and it's coming along nice! πŸ˜„

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Joe Hobot • Edited

Got Argo CD on K8s cluster, now I want to play some ci/cd with it for fun. Just to see what all it can do.

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Pritesh Usadadiya

I am just about to finish my personal website. I am using Hugo to build it. There are some kinks that i had figure out but mostly i am hoping to launch it before the weekend ends.

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Tetri Mesquita

Studying Python and Google Firebase for personal projects.
I'd like to migrate some static websites from my clients to GCloud awesome Hosting.

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Theofanis Despoudis

I started hacking with Swift+Ios Development. In addition I'm working on github.com/theodesp/go-leetcode

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Chase Stevens

Nice! Sometime in the not-too-distant future, I'd want to play around with AR using Swift.

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Jack Hall

I am going to be working on an issue for the emberjs website. Trying to pick up some more ember knowledge, by helping to migrate some pages from a separate app.

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CodedByElvis

Working on hosting a project with Heroku, and attending a Python Conference all weekend. Always wanted to learn and I love me a conference! ☺️

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Guido Pereira

I will work on my Trello like Application using Angular, MongoDB and Node.Js
It's a way for me to improve my Angular Skills.
You can check the Project here (github.com/StereoPT/gBoards)