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Bizarre, topsy-turvy,....& what not! The year that was 2022 - A look back.
DevRetro 2022
📆 The year
2022
finally withered away & we've already reached the first weekend of2023
! It's been a rather bizarre journey for me since I started coding in earnest, back in2020
- after the pandemic struck. It took me another year for me to join Twitter - although I had been already benefitting from#techTwitter
with the amount of 🧵 I had saved. freeCodeCamp, Youtube, & Peertube were my primary sources to learn how to code, back then. Fast-forward to2021
& I had pretty much blundered my way through a plethora of tutorials, & self-doubt - interspersed with weeks of doing zilch. Pretty messed up, right?By the end of the year, I had already sorted out quite a few things I needed to do if I wanted to become a self-taught developer -
Increasing my online presence (still not there, yet!)
Networking
Just build something & get it out there in the wild already!
Effective time management (yeah, about that ...)
🟦 Started off with the #100DaysOfCode challenge after joining Twitter.
Day 1: #100DaysOfCode
Completed the Basic HTML and HTML5 modules in freeCodeCamp. On to CSS now! pic.twitter.com/Xn7UCB3H8V— ⌨️ u-nixed-!t📱️ (@thefoss_m) June 16, 2021
🟦 Made this with
HTML
&CSS
on Codepen🎯Day-28 #100DaysOfCode
📌 With love, from #CSS3 .❤️ pic.twitter.com/QrUzpfDVor— ⌨️ u-nixed-!t📱️ (@thefoss_m) July 18, 2021
🟦 And this, too!
— ⌨️ u-nixed-!t📱️ (@thefoss_m) August 26, 2021
So, yeah; I'd then progressed to participating in online Hackathons, like the one held in September, 2021
:
- Shoutout to Francesco Ciulla & Sam Sycamore for the awesome Hackathon!
It's been a whirlwind since.
I've since, up until November, 2022
; suffered several setbacks on the personal front (lost some friends & a few loved ones in the Pandemic), & also started freelancing as a Front-end Web Developer. I've landed a few clients too!