Got into REACT for the first time and got my first complex component built within two days. The component had pretty specific requirements so i could not rely on any solution out there. So i got into the errors and „logic“ behind REACT and i really like it so far and be curious where i will land someday. :)

Last week I launched watchnetspeed.com in product hunt. It helps you to track your Mac's internet speed from the menubar. It ended receiving the 4th place in the product for that day (8th of February) Until now it received 326 upvotes.

But I made a mistake in the beginning. I did not make a trial version of Watch Net Speed. So people were hesitated to pay at first. Hence, I launched the trial version on the 11th of February.

The trial is about to end after 7 days of usage. Now after 7 days, I can see my sales are growing again. You can try Watch Net Speed from watchnetspeed.com, use the coupon "ProductHunt" for a 25% discount.

I guess it was getting pagination and syntax highlighting for snippets working on my Gatsby blog. Now I just have to come up with ideas to write about.

Probably finally starting to understand the basics of how JSON Web Tokens actually work and starting to mess with request headers in api requests. (I'm used to traditional, third-party api GET requests but not changing the headers in the request / accept, content-type, authorization, etc)

Slowly but surely =]

for me it would be getting my hands on a 100$ python book for just 40$ 😍 BTW the book is totally worth it

My biggest success this week is to try out both Gatsby and Next for a static website which converts markdown files to dynamic pages. I have written a blog post for Gatsby . I will follow up with another blogpost for NextJS.

Form, the biggest thing this week, was finally understanding the javascript patterns and architecture. This makes a huge difference and should be able to fluently programme in javascript soon !

That I haven't snapped and killed anyone! Yet!

Due to miscommunication and a misunderstanding on my part, I took on a much bigger story than I should have and was under the impression I had just Monday and Tuesday to do it - it was supposed to be a solid week and a half, maybe more. But I managed to get it code complete by the end of the day on Tuesday like I (thought I) needed to. Needs unit tests and polish now, but the misunderstanding is taken care of so I'm not as stressed about it.

My biggest success this week was to write the GraphQL series at Hashnode, and now I'm already writing more articles!

Also, this week I worked in a project with TypeScript and I'm very excited to learn more about it! 🚀

We shipped the "series" feature this week. So, you can now tag multiple posts with a single series. With this we are going to focus more on publishing quality learning materials on various topics. The first series is Learning GraphQL. Give it a read if you are interested in GraphQL or APIs in general.

We also launched Users tab. Based on the same API, we are going to revamp the users we suggest during onboarding and invite to answer widget.

Have a great weekend ahead. 🙌