As promised, here's another weekly summary of best Hashnode discussions and stories. Every week on Hashnode, we get some excellent articles written by amazing software developers from around the world. Some use Hashnode's Devblog to publish articles on their 🌎 domain, and some post content directly on Hashnode 🦄.
This article is a shout out to all the community members who contributed.
Top Discussions of the week 💬
What hobby projects are you working on?
This pandemic lockdown has given many developers some extra time to work on side projects. Are you working on any side-projects too? Feel free to share your project in this discussion thread started by Marco Alka.
What was your first commit open-source software? 👩💻👨💻
An open discussion thread for the dev community to share the first open-source commit of their life. What was your first commit? Which project did you contribute to? Share with us in this thread.
What are some of the best work from home tips for developers?
As most of us are working remotely today, what are some of the best tips and advice you have for developers who are experiencing this change for the first time?
What keeps you away from actively blogging?
Many of us have thought about blogging seriously in the past. However, we end up not publishing anything after the first post or draft. What's the primary reason for that? Participate in this poll and tell us your opinion.
Top stories of the week 🌅
Creating a Custom Photo Gallery using Gatsby and CSS Grid
Here's a quick recipe for creating a photo gallery in your Gatsby website using React and a pinch of CSS. Thanks to Bernardo Belchior for sharing your experience with the community.
Build a location-aware WhatsApp whether bot with Ruby, Sinatra and Twilio
Phil Nash is back with yet another insightful article where he explains how to build a Whatsapp whether bot easily.
Open Source contributions: A catalyst for growth
There are multiple benefits to staying active in open-source communities. You end up creating a portfolio that is impressive and can help land you your dream job. In this article, Edidiong Asikpo shares her open-source journey and how it acted as a catalyst in her professional growth.
Three methods to get unique values from arrays in ES6
There are several ways and several algorithms that you can easily implement to retrieve unique elements in an array in JavaScript. In this article, Everistus Olumese explains three of those ways.
What is this inside foo.bar()?
Calling a method directly works as expected. But when we pass a method as a callback, it loses reference to the original object (as this) when called. Why is that? Read the explanation by Abhas Bhattacharya.
AMA Sessions from the past week 🎙
Missed our AMAs from the past week? Here's the list of AMAs you can read in your spare this week.
AMA with Auth0: We are Developer Advocates at Auth0, ask us anything!🚀
The Devrel team from Auth0 shared a lot of interesting insights about their company, advice for the budding devrel enthusiasts, programming tips and more. Make sure to read this one.
AMA: I'm Sasha Rosenbaum. Product Manager at GitHub, Author, and Speaker. Ask me Anything!
Sasha Rosenbaum is a Product Manager at GitHub. She answered questions on DevOps, GitHub, Product Management and Devlife in her AMA.
I'm Neha Sharma. A UI manager, author, and speaker. Ask me anything!
Neha Sharma is a speaker, developer, and creator of JSLovers, a non-profit tech community for the developers. She shared her thoughts on accessibility, public speaking, tech writing, and general devlife issues.