Last couple of days I've been working on bug fixes for a visual studio code extension I wrote a couple of months ago. I was a fun way to make myself more familiar with the vs code extension model, and with typescript.

It's something that I wrote for myself (Was tired of having to push a branch, go to the browser, open Bitbucket, find the branch and create a pr). Surprisingly enough it now has been installed over 4K times.

I've been working on a couple little web apps. Forky is my app for making mind maps, and Webcmd is a hackery chat app. Today, I fixed my scrolling behavior in my chat app webcmd.

forky.pipes-3.pw (staging servers) Hop on here and you can create a mindmap. Sorry there's no tutorial yet haha, but double click to make a bubble.

webcmd.pipes-3.pw It's my replacement for slack, because slack has no dark theme. xD

Automated lots of stuff via bash scripts and docker containers today. I exposed too much to docker-compose that i started to feel like i dockerized myself.

I'm working on our administration application to allow customizing logging of our other products. I use TDD, groovy and Java in this project.

I am learning the use of org-mode to edit notebook in python in Emacs :) I am amazed how this editor boosts my productivity every day.

Everything is that exactly how I want so I am coding in Elisp to change some behaviour of the mode.

Not today. Yesterday I did. Still working on Space War. github.com/unclebob/spacewar

I have been working through Udemy tutorials on Gatsby in particular and React in general.

I'm enhancing and documenting my personal Node.js/Express repo, with the intention of using it as the base for my first solo project in February, which will be a PWA, text-based strategy game (originally designed and coded in ASP classic, a decade ago.) Currently adding small things like; social meta tags, in-code comments, and some vanilla js that I intend to use globally (with a possible refactoring into Vue.js in the near future.)

Spent the morning (since 6:30am) restructuring my upcoming PWA with a lean production goal, using draw.io Desktop, and will end the day (at approx. 11pm) setting up my next one-week (seven day) sprint in JIRA, which will start on Monday.

Either tomorrow or Friday, I'll be archiving the repo on Github and forking it. The overall purpose for it is to expedite the time it takes to get started on simple to advanced "minimal" websites and apps, with a nice Gulp pipeline and a proper README.md, so I can hit the ground running. I'll then be adding Mongoose, along with the models/routes/views/middleware for an administrative system (including roles/users/authentication), to the fork.

Sandeep Panda

Just migrated our codebase to use a monorepo maintained with lerna: github.com/AztecProtocol/AZTEC

And we absolutely love it ❤️

There are of course some trade-offs, such as decreased efficiency in CI/ CD, but we're happy to cope with that at the time being.

We're building a privacy protocol on Ethereum, so keep an eye on Twitter if you're into that: twitter.com/AztecProtocol

Working on making network first cache strategy in service worker of my PWA project.

Well, I have written a lot of code today. I have been working on upgrading Hashnode's performance through CDN based caching of resources. This boosts the speed of Hashnode in the following ways:

• Instantly load Hashnode homepage for logged out users.
• Instantly load individual post pages for logged out users.
• Load user feed with < 100ms TTFB.
• Load individual posts instantly during client side rendering.

A detailed blog post is on the way. 🙌

Day Job

• I am working on setting up two-way sms communication with a phone/server through AWS PinPoint and SNS. Real pain in the ass to set this up on AWS. Twilio was a piece of cake though.

Side Project

• Working on learning/implementing an idea in Solidity, the programming language for the Ethereum Blockchain

We are discussing migrating two of our vanilla JavaScript projects to TypeScript. Our plan, for now, is the following:

1. Evaluate the impact of introducing TypeScript into the projects.
2. Create the necessary design documents and migration steps.
3. Do a spike (research) with a simple Proof-Of-Concept.
4. Present the results to the project managers and owners.
5. Organize the work between the involved developers.

Other than that, I'm in the middle of organizing an internal 4 days dev conference aimed at Front-End and JavaScript Development. If everything goes fine, we plan to open it to the public.

As for development - I'm working on integrating a new payment method to our payment gateway, which includes dashboard integration and data visualization in our in our Angular 7 project with settlements generation, orders information, administration, and configuration. Additionally, I'm including order processing in our embedded widget (vanilla JS) using our own JavaScript SDK.

Also, I'm starting a new side project - an onboarding application, aimed at helping new hires get on track faster and easier. Onboarding has been a struggle for our HR and People Development Teams, so it's a good opportunity for me to help them.

Working on a web application, which should be able to run under dynamic path namespaces. My current task is to make that possible, which is more trouble than it sounds like. Today, I think I am ready to deploy it to our dev server and dev Kubernetes cluster, so wish me luck 🤞

I am currently in a car driving through italy towards france :).

But the last two days before my vaccation I:

• setup a production server with brotli for unity support with a symfony fw portal implementation of mine
• patched some react code and an import module for OMDS in another app
• patched my actix - coap handler so it supports correct methods
• compiled cphalcon in different versions
• made a PR for the CoAP lib in rust adding CBOR headers and some other status codes.

Actually it sounds more than it was. The only cool thing is the cbor support because we actually needed it :)

I am learning about Azure Pipelines DevOps in order to Continuously build, test, and deploy apps on cloud platforms.

Currently, the objective which we want to get is build a Docker service of one of the products of the company and deploy it on Kubernetes and GCP (google cloud platform) in order to will quickly show (potential) customers the benefits of our product, and it allows our developers to get familiar with Docker, Kubernetes and other container orchestration services.

At this moment I am starting to familiarize with Azure DevOps platform which is the platform in where we have the services deployed, and learning how to build Azure pipelines from YAML language.

Python a bit and more front end than I used to do.