Allan WANJIKUwithallan.hashnode.dev·Sep 15, 2024The Journey Behind Creating RentNest: Lessons LearnedIntro RentNest is an online directory designed to revolutionize how house and real estate agents in Kenya advertise their services. By accepting agents registered with the Estate Agents Registration Board (EARB), RentNest ensures that Kenyans can con...Discusslessons learned
Jessica WilkinsforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·Nov 2, 2022What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRsHacktoberfest is a month long celebration of open source. And this year I participated as a maintainer for freeCodeCamp's Developer Quiz Site. I merged a total of 356 pull requests and helped a lot of new contributors get started with open source. We...DiscussfreeCodeCamp.org
freeCodeCampforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·Mar 9, 2022How I Developed My First Adventure GameBy Andrea Koutifaris It's hard to tell exactly when my journey creating Occulto, a point and click adventure game, started. But I have a significant date in mind: 3 May 2018. Here's one thing that got the ball rolling: Luigi: Hello Andrea. Sorry to ...DiscussArt
freeCodeCampforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·Jun 4, 2021How to Recover from Deployment Hell – What I Learned After My Discord Bot Crashed on a 1,000+ User ServerBy Lynn Zheng I built a Discord AI Chatbot in my last blog post and then, to challenge myself, proceeded to stress-test it on a Discord server with 1,000+ users. In the first hour, Deployment Hell struck and I had to take the bot down for maintenanc...Discuss#chatbots
freeCodeCampforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·Apr 5, 20215 Mistakes Beginner Web Developers Make – And How to Fix ThemBy Dave Gray This list is made up of the most common mistakes I've witnessed during nearly a decade of teaching beginning web development students. My idea for writing this article is not to make fun of beginner mistakes or embarrass anyone who is be...Discussbeginners guide
freeCodeCampforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·Nov 23, 2020How I Escaped Tutorial Purgatory – and How You Can, TooBy Daniel Chae Tutorial purgatory. We've all been there. The mindless scrolling, pausing, and playing. All the copying, and pasting of the coding snippets. It's a lukewarm place to be. You're "learning" because you're making your way through structu...Discusstutorial purgatory
freeCodeCampforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·May 28, 2020Things I Wish I Knew Before Working with Electron.jsBy Alain Perkaz In this article, I'll share how you can avoid some of the mistakes I made when learning about Electron.js ?♂️. I hope it helps! Note: This wont be a coding tutorial, but rather a discussion about my personal takeaways. A couple of mo...DiscussElectron
freeCodeCampforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·Sep 19, 2019What I've Learned in My First Year as a Software EngineerBy Lekha Surasani I just completed my first full year as a software engineer and it absolutely flew by. Along the way, I learned a lot and I wanted to take some time to reflect on it and share what I've learned. Mentorship For a while, I downplayed ...DiscussCareer
freeCodeCampforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·Jul 15, 2019How I Built and Shipped My First MVPBy JavaScript Joe On June 29th, I shared the MVP of mentored.dev on Twitter–my first "real" project that was bigger than anything I'd built before and something I was excited for other people to use. https://twitter.com/jsjoeio/status/11449945802002...DiscussJavaScript
freeCodeCampforfreeCodeCampfreecodecamp.org·Jul 3, 2019How I reverse-engineered the Hemingway Editor - a popular writing app - and built my own from a beach in ThailandBy Sam Williams I’ve been using the Hemingway App to try to improve my posts. At the same time I’ve been trying to find ideas for small projects. I came up with the idea of integrating a Hemingway style editor into a markdown editor. So I needed to f...Discussenglish
