Felicia is coding @cannotFindTyp0

It’s been a year since my last tweet! Looking back my tweets I’m proud of how much I have learnt in one year. I landed my first SDE job soon after my last tweet, and e2e delivered a major feature in 3 mo. Then I was offered a SDE position in MAANG, and survived rounds of layoffs.

And one last exciting thing to announce: After countless of job applications without a single word heard back, I finally received one interview invitation, and more after since… currently 1 offer, 1 interview in process, 1 just about to start.

So I’ve been coding everyday but just not motivated enough to tweet everyday 😥 Some recent news: - Wrote 10+ APIs for the team project I’ve been working on - Learnt some new algorithms - Reviewed general knowledge like TCP, HTTPS, OOP principles etc. - Attended online job fairs

#100DaysOfCode April 7-8th: JS project, backend GraphQL API for adding/updating user info and hashtags; April 9-11th: - Reviewed double pointers, DFS, BFS, binary search; - TypeScript basics; (Ohhh and I did practice Fugue in G minor, BWV578 by Bach and Croatian Rhapsody 🎹)

#100DaysOfCode Didn’t update on twitter last 2 weeks as I was busy working on a team project.. Mar 31st ~ April 2nd: JS project, sending email with sendinblue & nodemailer; April 3rd - April 6th: JS project, backend GraphQL API for password reset & email verification

#100DaysOfCode 4/100 Mar 30 Learned about Serverless and lambda functions; Wrote some GraphQL queries; Continue to work on JavaScript project; Will lean some basic Angular next days.

#100DaysOfCode 3/100 Mar 29 Reviewed double pointers algorithms with Python 3 and completed 6 leetcode problems; Continued to work on the JavaScript blog platform project.

I've been with macOS for 14 yrs... I enjoyed macOS Automator and it has some scripting features that I've always wanted to learn and use... Now that I've learned Python, Bash and JavaScript, I am finally able to write some handy scripts for daily use! Yay!! 🎉

#100DaysOfCode Okay so I forgot to tweet... 1/100 Mar 27 Learned Python 3 sets and collections 2/100 Mar 28 Wrote a script to search words in an online dictionary by calling its APIs, and called system default display window to show the search results. Written in Python and JS.

Seen some #100DaysOfCode challenges and thought I might start one as well. Today will be counted as day 1 although I have been learning continuously for quite some days. It’s about late night and I’ll decide today’s challenge after I get up…

So today I completed the url shortener project. Async and await are definitely not my friends today...

Doing a shorten URL project using JS and MongoDB. Instead of putting all codes in one js file I tried to separate them into 3 modules: APIs, handlers, and repository, so that the codes are well structured and isolated. This also helps me understand a bit more about system design.

I added the last part... this is what I thought would happen every time I save a couple of lines code.

Redwood is a friendly community. I ran into 2 bugs when doing tutorial and posted on their forum about the issues. Got core team member and co-founder’s reply the next day, received temporary solutions and was also informed when issues are solved and packed for next release. 👍🏻

Self-taught developer looking for junior level job opportunities, full time/part time/contract/intern (and perhaps volunteer positions) remotely in Canada. Backend and frontend. Go, Python, JavaScript, React, SQL, HTML, CSS, advanced Excel, and continuing learning. RTs welcome...

So I was learning RedwoodJS using their tutorial: the forms part, step 1 it teaches how to turn the error msg into red; step 2 it teaches to turn the box into red when error occurs; step 3 it turns the label into red when error occurs. Forgive me but I really laughed out loud 🤣

So I applied to join a JS project team on its start up stage as a volunteer. I said I have some exp with REST API, Node.js, Express.js, React… Turns out they want exp in TypeScript, GraphQL API and prisma 🙂 Always ask for things on your to-do list that you haven’t done yet, ay?

I was trying to create a project using RedwoodJS and got stuck at the first couple of chapters of its official tutorial. After spending almost a day I finally confirmed it’s a known, unresolved bug that goes with the built-in prisma version. What a day wasted…😵‍💫

70% learning are from practice - and not with step-by-step instructions/demos. When coding following instructions I feel like I have mastered it, but the real challenge & learning only happens when I build a project from zero without using training wheels.

For those who wants to explore career possibilities as a software developer, I recommend to start with free courses on freeCodeCamp and Codecademy and see if coding really is your passion. If completed with pleasure, you may consider next steps.