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Last updated: Jun 30, 2020

an almost daily log of the things i end up doing, What i learned and the progress i have made over time

July 1, 2020

Got the entire pipeline tested up till the point where i'm sending a built Android app bundle .aab to Firebase App Distribution
The pipeline at this point has these steps:
- Publish to Expo
- Export static files
- Deploy to Netlify (self-host)
- Build app bundle
- Send to Firebase
Got familiar with using custom Docker containers inside the pipeline
Brought down the time to build from ~40 minutes (using Expo) to ~10 minutes (using turtle)

June 30, 2020

Learned and used YAML anchors
Block Scalars -> multiline strings
Used artifacts in a bitbucket pipeline
Setup a step that changes --release-channel based on Deployment variables
Deployment variables vs. Repository variables
Encoding and decoding a keystore as base64 for use in CI/CD

June 29, 2020

Seep dive into the Android app signing process
App signing key vs. Upload key

For the month of March, Arpil and May or so of 2020, read the working from home during COVID-19 post

May 19, 2020

Watched TypeScript: The Big Picture.

Love Simon Allardice and his courses, the guy has a knack of explaining things in a simple and understandable way

May 18, 2020

Finished the fourth module of C# Fundamentals
- Working with Classes and Objects

May 17, 2020

Spent a whole lot of time fixing a broken Opencart site. Turned out it was cache inside a folder that was outside of public_html/. smh.
Finished the third module of Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals in C#
- Identifying Classes from Requirements

May 16, 2020 (Sat)

Spent the most part of the day looking into an Opencart website and transferring it's setup as well as upgrading the server it was on
Made notes on C#, wrote a couple of blog posts
Added Google Analytics and RSS feed to the Gatsby site

May 15, 2020

Spent a lot of time looking into Zendesk API and handling customer support for work
Implemented incremental Netlify builds for the Gatsby site

May 14, 2020

revised the C# course modules on C# Fundamentals
pushed major updates to the Gatsby blog including generating pages for MDX posts based on filenames instead of path in frontmatter. Also merged the content into one folder. So it's content for all of them with a folder called personal inside. Previously it used to be a folder called notes for non-personal dev notes and a folder called blog for personal blog posts. Having multiple folders made it difficult when building templates as i always had to apply filters on queries..
Work included looking into SignalR connectivity issues and stuff like wildcard SSLs and custom domain names for Azure services
practiced uke

May 13, 2020

Felt enlightened after finding out that sending messages to a Slack channel is as easy as posting data to a webhook using something as basic as a curl command. This opens up so many possibilities for scripting notifications.. I started looking into it because i wanted to send monitoring alerts for a linux server if it was running high on CPU/RAM..
Looked into a variety of system monitoring tools. The ones that i particularly liked were htop, sar, Munin and Monit
worked out
practiced uke

13 Jul 2018 Fri

TLDR Dev Notes
- Fixed some styles for the Hugo based sites (used CSS grid)
- Deployed the Hugo based site to Netlify
JS Labs
- Generated and uploaded the favicon and touch icons generator
Desi On Keto
- Generated and uploaded the favicon and touch icons

12 Jul 2018 Thurs

JavaScript Coding challenges (average scores and winner, grade calculator, BMI calculator)
JS Labs
- Registered and put up a website for jslabs.pk
- Designed the logo
Drumkit in pure vanilla JS

21 March 2017 Tues

Querying the DOM II
Web APIs and Interfaces
Querying the DOM
HTMLCollection and NodeList

20 March 2017 Mon

Querying the DOM I

19 March 2017 Sun

TLDR: ES6 Classes vs. Constructor Functions

17 March 2017 Fri

Learn and Understand NodeJS
- Modules, Exports and Require
TLDR: Prototypal Inheritance and Constructor Functions

16 March 2017 Thurs

Learn and Understand NodeJS
- V8: The JavaScript Engine
- The Node Core

15 March 2017 Wed

HTML Image Maps

26 Dec 2016 Mon

Nodeschool.io functional-javascript-workshop (passed till 6)
.every()
.reduce()
Recursion

25 Dec 2016 Sun

Async/await functions
.forEach()
.map()
.reduce()
.concat()
.filter()

15 Dec 2016 Thurs

14 Dec 2016 Wed

worked on my Twitch app (reducers and actions for fetching data for an array of users + add users)
YouTube: Anjana Vakil: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - JSUnconf 2016
YouTube: React Router v4 with Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence - Modern Web

13 Dec 2016 Tues

Twitch app project: Refactored the actions and reducers
Twitch app project: defined my state shape

12 Dec 2016 Mon

Pluralsight: React Core Concepts
Treehouse: The JavaScript 'use strict' Statement
Treehouse: Template Strings
Pair programming session 6pm-7:30pm
Started my twitch app and worked on putting Redux in place

11 Dec 2016 Sun

Pluralsight: React Lifecycle
Wikipedia Viewer app works

10 Dec 2016 Sat

Youtube: Connecting React & Redux
Pluralsight: Actions, Stores and Reducers
Pluralsight: Connecting React to Redux
Provider, Connect, mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps, bindActionCreators
Pluralsight: Async in Redux

9 Dec 2016 Fri

made a redux app with API, got stuck with React integration (mapping)
made a react-redux app with API again, got stuck with reducers (parts of state not updating)
cursed profusely

8 Dec 2016 Thurs

back to the very basics, did the completely React-less Redux counter form Dan's Redux basics course
Dan's redux basics course
Looked into async actions in redux, updating store with fetched data

7 Dec 2016 Wed

wrapped my head around middleware
wrapped my head around redux fundamentals (actions, reducers, enhancers, selectors)
Docs: Thinking in React
spent hours reading Redux and React docs
created the example redux todo app

3 Dec 2016 Sat

Higher-order functions (2 hrs)

28 Nov 2016 Mon

27 Nov 2016 Sun

SASS loader for Webpack
Standard JS Style
Standard JS Style loader for Webpack
Arrow function syntax
Local storage API

25 Nov 2016 Fri

finished the Random Quotes project
- added a tweet button using Web intent (Twitter docs)
- generate new quote with button click (enclosed the reqwest stuff in fetchQuote() and called it from another function called handleClick())
this
bind

24 Nov 2016 Thurs

got data in and presented it in React

23 Nov 2016 Wed

var, let and const
Promises
XMLHttpRequest
YouTube: Arrow Function Syntax

22 Nov 2016 Tues

React JS Fundamentals: Pure Functions, props, and nesting React components in React
Created a react project that has nested components, pushed to Gitlab
PropTypes

21 Nov 2016 Mon

FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Roman Numeral Converter
FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Steamroller
FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Everything be true
React JS Fundamentals: Intro to JS Ecosystem
React JS Fundamentals: NPM
React JS Fundamentals: Webpack for React
React JS Fundamentals: First React Component
React JS Fundamentals: Babel, Webpack and React
React JS Fundamentals: Nested Components and Props in React
React JS Fundamentals: Building UIs with Pure Functions and Function Composition in React
Pure Functions

20 Nov 2016 Sun

FCC: Basic JS Algo - Caesar's Cipher
FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Arguments Optional
FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Diff Two Arrays
FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Missing Letters
FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Boo Who
FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Finders Keepers
FCC: Intermediate JS Algo - Binary Agents

19 Nov 2016 Sat

Treehouse: Exploring JavaScript Conditionals (Switch statements, ternary operator, Short circuit evaluation)
Treehouse: Introduction to Babel (transpiler)
Treehouse: JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects
Treehouse: React intro (JS library to build UI)
Google: 'wtf is react and why do i need it'
Google: JS Composition