Taking the opportunities that grow your career
Lately, my career has been a series of me moving from mentor to mentee. Whenever I get a chance to host a live stream with an open source maintainer or sit in on an OpenJS foundation meeting, I hope to walk away with the knowledge to improve my experiences and others’ experiences. When I go live on stream on Tuesday and Fridays to code, I welcome questions from chatters asking which React framework is worth learning or whether the Jamstack has value past the next few years.
I am addicted to knowledge and knowledge sharing. This is why I walked away from a recent Clubhouse session on GitHub Actions pumped at the possibility of networking with fellow developers despite still being in the middle of a pandemic.
In the next few weeks, I will be setting up some conversations to chat with developers, and it will most likely happen on the Open Sauced Discord. If you are not already part of the Open Sauced meetup group, go ahead and sign up for notifications on when future conversations will happen.
Open Sauced (San Francisco, CA) | Meetup
Today open source is ubiquitous and comprises nearly 80% – 90% of the code in a “typical” application. Based on GitHub’s 2019 Octoverse, the average project is built on ~180 open source packages of de
Supabase + RedwoodJS
I am hooked on this new stack and its a combination of RedwoodJS and Supabase. After chatting with Anthony Campolo 2 weeks ago, I was introduced to the simplicity of the redwood cli. This week I was introduced to the simplicity of connecting a production-ready database with authentication.
In the next coming weeks, I will be working on the next version of Open Sauced. This version will include recommendations for projects to contribute to. Be sure to watch the open-sauced/flava-flav (taking name recommendations).
GitHub - open-sauced/admin.opensauced.pizza: Open Source recommendations, but spicy.
Open Source recommendations, but spicy. Contribute to open-sauced/admin.opensauced.pizza development by creating an account on GitHub.
Podcast recordings
Here are more of my thoughts recently published podcasts.
- TDS 77 - Is Clubhouse Hurting the Developer Community
- Ep. #71, Open Source Firebase Alternative with Paul Copplestone of Supabase
YouTube
The Best Developer Setup is the ONE You Have
In my first year at Netlify, I worked on building out the UI and frontend dashboard. A portion of that UI was shipped from my laptop in a camping chair. Having dual monitors and RGB lights does not make you a developer; What makes you a developer is your code. I am focusing on getting better at writing code with what you have before you drop $500+ on a monitor.
This Developer is now an Angel Investor
After a series of introductions, I made the jump into Angel Investing. I have been involved in developer tools startups for the past seven years as an engineer, advisor, and user. Starting this year, I added the label investor.
Intro to GitHub Actions for Test Automation - with Angie Jones and Brian Douglas [webinar recording]
Watch this on-demand webinar, where Angie Jones chats with Brian Douglas about this exciting new offering and how it can be utilized for test automation.
How to create a GitHub chatbot for your Twitch stream
Watch this recording as Bdougie and MishManners walk you through how to create your own chatbot and on stream Twitch integrations with GitHub.
GitHub Checkout
- Automatically merging a pull request - GitHub Checkout
- Find issue and pull request assignees faster with type ahead search - GitHub Checkout
Live
Places to find bougie.live
https://www.meetup.com/GitHub-Virtual-Meetup/events/276304992/