South African, former Agile Coach and aspiring Developer, Exercise nut, Geek!

Joined March 2011
Day 42: More learning about Tanstack query and how to integrate it into my app. Testing out some simple functions before going all in #100DaysOfCode
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Day 41: Tidying up some front end code on the learning audit and reading up on Tanstack Query, fka React Query. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 40: Spent time today doing codewars with a friend, picked up loads working with arrays and also the solution to a problem I’d pondered for ages a month ago just came to me as soon as I saw it. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 39 Still on authentication, created sign up and sign in routes, creating and signing JWT tokens. Next up logout and refresh token routes. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 38: Continuing with writing Authentication for my app. It’s been fun, highlighted improvements I can make in other places. Been a fun little challenge trying to translate an article that uses mongodb for it into the PostgreSQL I’m using. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 37: Started adding Auth to my Learning Audit app. I know there are lots of pre-made solutions, and you generally shouldn’t do it yourself but I want to understand how it works and it’s giving me experience with cookies and JWT’s. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 36: Mentor chat, working through some testing using Jest with class based functions. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 35: Writing some tests for some class based functions and working on my Learning Audit app, adding routing in to different pages for module display #100DaysOfCode
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Day 34: Working on my portfolio site, breaking it into components and abstracting away data to make it cleaner and more maintainable. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 33: Spent some time today working on my learning audit app which I’ve been neglecting. Adjusted the directory structure to delineate backend and frontend better, updated some styling and deployed both the backend and frontend. #100DaysOfCode #javascript
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Day 32: Last time I’ll mention classes (explicitly 🤞) Completed a LinkedIn Learning course on classes, and spent a couple hours chatting about them with my mentor which was really useful. #100DaysOfCode #javascript
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Day 31: JavaScript Classes LinkedIn learning course, Codewars with Adil and attempting to build a ticketing service using classes. #100DaysOfCode #codewars #javascript
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Day 30: More classes and a great evening spent at JavaScript London meeting people and learning lots about API development with TypeScript, engagement and LLM architecture. #100DaysOfCode #javascript #api
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Day 29: More time spent grappling with JavaScript classes and trying to understand them so that I’m able to use them effectively. Slowly but surely they’re starting to look less mystical #100DaysOfCode
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Day 28: Spent a while getting to grips with using class based components in react as well as using axios for http requests. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 27: Spent the day (Saturday) at #DevFestLondon listening to some great talks, meeting great people and learning lots about some of the cool new things either out already or coming soon like Baseline, Gemma 2, Firebase etc #100DaysOfCode
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Day 26: - Recording a presentation for our app. - Learning a little bit about Redux and classes in JavaScript. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 25: - Finishing up the final bits of the React Native app with the team and prepping a presentation. - Doing some code review with my mentor: reviewing a small react app to find inconsistencies and practice reading others code #100DaysOfCode
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Day 24: - Dealing with the release of the latest Expo SDK version with the new react native architecture. Finding and fixing the issues it caused was a “hoot”. - Lots of time pairing with others to build elements of our app. #100DaysOfCode
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Day 23: Building components out in React Native and pulling data in to display in dynamic loading donuts. Fun day exploring ways to build and style things in React Native #100DaysOfCode
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