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2 years
We updated the UI just a tad for desktop and smaller screens, too. If you wanna test it out, pls do! Link in the original post.
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2 years
The API homework was ages ago but @doanaminh and I decided to work with the BoTW API and cook something up for some extra practice. So try it out if you’d like and give us some feedback/critique!
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Omfg I connected React to my backend 🥲
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2 years
Someone please explain how 5+ years of experience is entry-level. Make it make sense.
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2 years
All these tutorials on how to fork, pull, branch, merge files when trying to contribute to a project on GitHub are over-estimating my intelligence by a lot.
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2 years
Sooooo after my interview they asked me to have a coffee chat with other people on their team 👀 they shouldn’t get my hopes up like this
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1 year
Low key freaking out abt actually passing the interview. Like, what if I get the job and I don’t understand what I’m looking at? 😬
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2 years
Today was the last day of work at my job in Japan ✌🏽now I can officially focus solely on programming 🙌🏼
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2 years
Got the first @scrimba React project done! @traversymedia ‘s crash course was a big help and I was able to incorporate the use of props. Hopefully, I can figure out how to create a toggle for a light version 🤔 #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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3 years
I’m calling it done!! My biggest accomplishment is centering the nav-bar text!! #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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2 years
Today I will finish my simple CRUD app and the client side page for the API I made ages ago. I must! I’ve got like 5 projects that are very close to being done but for some reason I continue to just not… finish them? Idk what’s up with that but it’s pretty annoying 🙃 #100Devs
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1 year
Final boss interview ✅ Now we wait 😬
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2 years
Blew another interview 😆 oh well. But I think I’m gonna take a little Twitter break to finish up some projects I haven’t been able to focus on. See y’all in maybe 2 weeks! ✌🏼
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3 years
Haven’t posted anything recently because I’ve just been trying to play around with what we’ve learned in JS making small projects. I used else/if and toggle to make a Lisa lipstick-chooser. #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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1 year
Dear recruiters, please stop wasting my time and yours by reading my linkedin and my previous job history before reaching out to me expecting 5+ years of exp and then stringing me along only to tell me that I don't have enough exp. yall are getting on my last nerve
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2 years
Are we still writing cover letters for jobs in 2023?????
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2 years
Not been feeling in the mood to code these days.
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1 year
now I can finally say I have 1 year of React experience on my resume whatever that’s worth 😀
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2 years
It took a long time to get started because it seemed to overwhelming and I’ve got a LONG ways to go but I’m glad to have made some progress on some sort of full stack project. I want to make smth to keep track of my art and track my progress. #100DaysOfCode #100Devs
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2 years
After the coffee chat I had with the team they now want me to have an interview with the Director… like I’m glad I made it this far but 4? FOUR rounds of interviews? Is this typical? Dang
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3 years
I’m hearing there’s no class next week. Thank god because I have yet to figure out what all this API stuff is about 🥲 #100Devs
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2 years
Yea buddy! 🙌🏼
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1 year
I’ll never do another freelance client project ever
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2 years
The brain fog caused by this 9-5 is insane. I came home, tried starting what should have an easy codewars and I just sat there and stared at it for like 30 mins and never ended up solving it.
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10 months
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2 years
I know we’re not supposed to be clicking “Apply” but maybe we can make an exception in the case of wanting to desperately escape toxic and stressful households?
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3 years
Disregard my complaining about the image hover. I did it 😂 #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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2 years
I have come to terms with never being caught up (especially with the professional checklist) before the cohort ends. I just don’t feel comfortable adding projects to my portfolio that I can’t say I spent a decent amount of time on.
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1 year
Lol I didn’t get it fam. Anyway I’ll be taking a break from Twitter for quite awhile now. Peace ✌🏼
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11 months
It's been awhile. Fell off the grid becuz I don't know what I'm doing anymore. The tech industry is so saturated. I can't compete with ppl with actual experience. Moved to MN in hopes of better job prospects but I'm losing $$. I'm afraid nothing will turn around.
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2 years
The API homework was ages ago but @doanaminh and I decided to work with the BoTW API and cook something up for some extra practice. So try it out if you’d like and give us some feedback/critique!
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3 years
Leveled up to 6kyuu!!! But I don’t dare try a 6kyuu problem, yet 😆 #100Devs
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2 years
Ngl it wasn’t until I started learning Java that I finally started to wrap my head around classes and constructors compares to when we were briefly introduced to that in JS last year.
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2 years
Finally got the light and dark mode toggle which… actually wasn’t as complicated as I had thought it would be. Aaaand added the hover state on the btn using the useState hook, as well. Dunno if that the best way to implement it but it was good practice. #100Devs
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3 years
I think the reason it takes me forever to finish this stuff is because I hyper-fixate on each individual thing and before I know it 3-4hrs have gone by. 🥲 #100Devs
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2 years
SO to the people in the #100Devs discord help channels. I have never not had someone answer my question and their suggestions have always fixed the issue in my code.
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3 years
ngl I feel like JavaScript is making a fool outta me right now
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2 years
Finally finished moving my 100+ hr project over to React with JWT, setting up and retesting all my routes and sending authorized requests. Now all that’s left is styling and I’m just sitting here looking at my screen… cuz I just don’t feel like doing it 🫠
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3 years
I wanna be done with this…. I’m too afraid to see what happens to the lookbook if I try resizing the browser 😂 maybe that’ll be tomorrow’s problem. G’night, fam! #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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2 years
They asked me to come for an in-person interview. There’s so much I said wrong the first time tho 🫠
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2 years
Blew another interview 😆 oh well. But I think I’m gonna take a little Twitter break to finish up some projects I haven’t been able to focus on. See y’all in maybe 2 weeks! ✌🏼
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3 years
I’ve got a little less than two weeks to get a paid client… things are not lookin’ too good, fam!
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2 years
After a chat with a recruiter they were like “either way we’ll be in touch within the next 24 hours” 2 days ago lol
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3 years
Me waking up tomorrow and looking at the code I wrote tonight while drinking Chardonnay:
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1 year
Okay, freelance web devs, your client wants to make changes that go against best practices in terms of accessibility, design (wanting to use several diff typefaces), etc. How do you go about that discussion?
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2 years
Finished my interview! Thanks for the last minute advice yesterday @ejinshin . It didn’t feel so much like an interview as it did a nice chat. Got a few technical questions and I can’t tell if I answered them well but overall it was a good experience ✌🏼
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2 years
I’ve just got a few more small changes to make with my 100hrs project and then I’m ready to post it here and have y’all rip me apart ✌🏼
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2 years
finally 5kyu… that took much longer than I would have liked. 🙃
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3 years
Seems like everyone is having a grand ole time reading eloquent js. I’ve only read the intro and this point I’m afraid to continue.
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3 years
Been too afraid to admit it until now but I have no clue how to use the 2nd parameter (the index?) on some of these array methods. 1st parameter makes total sense. 2nd one? Nope. And I’m pretty sure I need to use it for this codewars I’ve been stuck on all day #100Devs
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2 years
Randomly signed up for a local full stack meetup this Thursday and I’m low-key afraid everything is going to go over my head.
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3 years
At first I’m like, “not too shabby” #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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2 years
So a lot of y’all are killing it with your interface designs. I see a lot of people using frontendmentor. For those of you who do, do you find it helpful?
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3 years
I just spent much longer than I would have liked trying to figure out why my js wasn’t working and I forgot to link to my js file 🤦🏻‍♀️
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3 years
✨Cuisine Restaurant 完成✨ I officially can say I am confident in putting a hover effect on images 😂 #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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2 years
@DThompsonDev HOLY SHIT. This guy is a perfect example of tel me you don’t know how anything on the internet works without telling me you don’t know how anything on the internet works
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2 years
final? Interview with the director of the foundation and the lead developer (already had my interview with him tho so idk if they’re gonna pull a fast one on me) is next Tuesday and I can’t possibly think of what I would need to prep in particular for this. Any tips fam?
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2 years
Oh, of course it would just go off-center 😒
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2 years
This easy leetcode has been giving me grief for two days.
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3 years
I reached out to two people for coffee chats and they never got back 😭 what to do?????
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2 years
#100DaysOfCode day 4️⃣ ✅2 codewars ✅ @freeCodeCamp JS algorithms and data structures ✅ Anki Attempted an “easy” leetcode lol In the end I couldn’t solve it 🤷🏻‍♀️ I have to retake my driver’s license test tomorrow so time for bed!
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2 years
Why would I make a dedicated programming Twitter, post my programming progress, and ask questions about programming if I was interested in anything other than programming?!!!?? If y’all popping in ppl’s DMs with ulterior motives then kindly piss off.
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3 years
but then it all goes to hell 😂 #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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1 year
My uncle spoke to a surgeon about a procedure for my aunt and he said he was booked full up to 12 months but if my uncle paid him 7k in cash he would fit them in on one of the days he intentionally leaves open for cash paying customers. This country is a mf joke
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2 years
I keep forgetting to post abt #100DaysOfCode Days 75-90: ✨B/Anki 🌈 Got my ass handed to me in a mock interview in the VC ☀️ Open-source with @doanaminh 🌸 Client project 💥 moving 100hrs frontend to React 🌟 meeting with @rfornal abt his project! 💫 networking
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2 years
Do you like suffering? Why not try getting your react form to accept your img file path from the input, send that off to cloudinary to do whatev it needs to do, get that img url back n add that to the post request with the other form data and send that to your DB without an error
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2 years
Finished working on this todo list that @suheilycodes @Tch4lla_ @horizons1_new and I started using CRUD. It’s pretty basic but it adds and deletes items so I consider that a win. Hoping to add more to this later on. #100Devs
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3 years
I’m actually having fun changing up the images used in the salon layout. Almost done with it!!! #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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2 years
I barely contributed anything but it was nice finally being able to make it into a group for once. I could never join in the past because of work and the time difference. I learned a lot this time but I wish I had pushed myself to touch some more code. 😭Next time!!
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2 years
Css animations are no joke 😮‍💨
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3 years
I take back what I said about not being afraid of CSS. I’ve spent 1 hour trying to understand relative and absolute positioning and trying to get my elements and the content inside to line-up like how I wanted. 😭 #100Devs
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2 years
Is the MySQL server supposed to be THIS much of a hassle to install on a Mac? Dang.
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2 years
Thought I’d be ambitious and build this client site with next.js + tailwind but now I can’t even get my flex-boxes to stretch the height of their parent and I’ve been trying diff things for the past two hours. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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3 years
Y’all, please tell me there’s and easier way to do the hover overlay on images aside from creating another div in the same container and absolute positioning it on top of the image yadda yadda cuz I’m losing my mind!! #100Devs #100DaysOfCode
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3 years
I spent waaaaay to much time staring at my codewars solution trying to figure out why it wasn’t being accepted just to realize that my return statement was in the wrong set of {} 🤦🏻‍♀️ #100Devs
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2 years
Maybe someday I too can solve an easy leetcode on my own.
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2 years
This CRUD stuff has me wanting to bang my head against the wall.
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3 years
The bummer is that after really stressful days at work I can’t even bring myself to do anything when I get home. I immediately crash. And I’ve been having nothing but stressful days so far. I’m this 🤏🏼 close to rage-quitting 🥲
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10 months
Recruiter asks me if I’m interested in a REMOTE role and then asks me if I’m willing to relocate. Brah. Stop wasting my time.
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2 years
☀️Spent yesterday and today rewriting and practicing a lot of my Banki answers after talking with another 2022 100Dev alum. ✨I fixed my issue with POST request / cloudinary in my React app. 🌈got the IntersectionObserver effect to work on client project
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10 months
I put in an application for a 2nd job (part-time) just to try and pay down these mf student loans. It’s rough out here, fam.
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2 years
I tried doing this before but couldn’t follow through. I’be gotta commit this time to #100DaysOfCode Focusing on React!! 💪🏼
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3 years
It seems like whoever wrote eloquent JS is trying to confuse me while acting like it’s actually easier than I think. “Just this one formula!” Bro. My eyes glazed over the moment I saw the formula what makes you think I’m absorbing your explanation of it now?
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3 years
Finished the last of the responsive layouts!! #100Devs
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2 years
Tbh, I’ve been following along using async/await, routes, all this mongodb syntax, ejs, etc. without really understanding what was going on but while playing around with an old project I had a breakthrough n it started to click 😆 almost thought I was too dumb for this stuff
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2 years
I wonder if people in the US realize that bragging about not being able to drink water without artificial flavoring is not the flex they think it is.
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1 year
trying to run without coffee is a struggle, fam
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1 year
client took months to get all the content for his website to me. they have me a deadline of 5/30. i said that was doable and am just abt to finish up. now today, they say they're rebranding and will want to change/add several things. i might lose it today, fam. i just might.
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2 years
about a month ago I was on day 90 of #100daysofcode . Pretty sure I passed the 100-day mark at some point. I stopped keeping track 🥲 there’s just too much going on.
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2 years
I used to write out and draw lots of answering questions in class but I thought… why don’t I just make an object full of arrays for each of my classes and fill them with their names and make a random name-picker with that?? And then I did that and it worked 🥲
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2 years
Days 64-74 of #100DaysOfCode Feels like I’ve done a lot but yet not enough :/ 🦄 React, react and more react 🦋tried some leetcode 🦉Banki/technical interview prep 🐳 set up test container in Docker 🐡 finished basic quiz app 🦚 started recreating quiz app in react
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2 years
My open-source contribution can’t be merged because all my past commits weren’t signed with GPG only cuz I didn’t know what GPG was until 1 hour ago…
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2 years
Me, jumping on codewars after a long while only for this 7kyu to ask me to use recursion:
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1 year
css out here continuously making me look like a clown
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2 years
Forgot to log yesterday as day 6️⃣ of #100DaysOfCode Today is day 7️⃣ and I’m going to take it easy and just do a bit of React and @freeCodeCamp and call it a day. Does anyone else’s eyes hurt after looking at their almost everyday for several days?😵‍💫
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1 year
Back in feb I spent hrs trying to figure out why my React form data was returning an empty obj in the req. I opted for some janky-ass frontend code to get around it but today, 6 mos later, I opened it back up, rewrote a few lines, deleted others and it worked. I fixed it. wtf
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3 years
Just had my second coffee chat and it was so informative and chill. I’m so appreciative of the people in the tech community for being so generous with their time and information. I was so focused on the conversation I didn’t even take a sip of my coffee! 😂
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2 years
I think a lot of expats in Japan struggle with is learning how to properly dispose of their waste. @suheilycodes @Tch4lla_ @Sylfort1 and @horizons1_new and I made an app that gives users disposal instructions based on their search item. 🙌🏼 #100DaysOfCode
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2 years
I can’t do anything tonight. My eyes hurt and my brain is fried. G’night fam.
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2 years
Okay, first of all, some of these 8kyu taking more time than I’ve spent on some 6kyu 😒 that can’t be right…
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2 years
Anyone else’s fam seem oddly defensive when you talk to them about wanting to get a job in programming? Well, anyway… day 56 of #100daysofcode ✅ reviewed some SQL ✅ FCC: pure functions ✅ started reading graphQL docs ✅ chat with @saronyitbarek ❌ tried a leetcode lol
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3 years
Worked on APIs for the majority of the evening. Just a lot of review. Watched Mayanwolfe’s stream and learned how to populate a drop down menu with keys from an object. ✅Anki ✅codewars ✅API practice/review 🍅13 total pomos! Time for bed #100Devs
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