#100DaysOfCode: Day 20

Devlog for day 20 or whatever day I’m at of my #100DaysOfCode coding challenge.

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1+ hour of coding #100DaysOfCode
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self study following my own syllabus
startup or personal project work
job related tasks
get involved with Open Source

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So it’s been a long time since I wrote a devlog and that’s all on me. For the past 3 months, I’ve been hardcore job hunting. That process has sucked the life out of me. It’s also put a hard stop on many of the projects that I was working on including:

react-native-detect: My native module that would allow for persistent background data tracking based on given permissions. Something that, had I completed, would have been very apt considering the recent Facebook news that has been going on.
A tutorial series for the above. I had 2 articles mostly done (editing withstanding), but now that’s been stranded in limbo.
LifeTracker: My React Native app that would allow you to track as much metadata about yourself as possible for self research. Either automatically or manually.
Photo Sync and Compression service for the self-hosters out there. A backup, tagging, and organizing solution that allows you to reduce reliance on things like Google Photos while also adding some nice features on top of it.
Bookmark + readability + archive service that is built using a REST API + bookmarklets so no extensions or plugins are required no matter what browser or device you’re on.

While I have been able to throw in an hour here, an hour there, it has amounted to very little progress. In the meantime, I did manage to do the following:

Write my first real pull request. Yay!
Get much better at doing technical interviews. At least the test part. Pair programming interviews still burn me hard.
Get into Triplebyte, Hired, and a few other sites that are supposed to help with job hunting.
Do interviews almost every other day for the past 2 months.
Study a lot of CS basics and read things like Cracking the Coding Interview.

And what do I have to show at the end of all of it? No job offers yet.

That’s my quick update for now. I have a few other blog posts that are half written and between studying/practicing for interviews more, I hope to finish writing them and hopefully working on my own projects a bit more.

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#100DaysOfCode: Day 20

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