mbappai

Journey back to the top

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This post will serve as a means of me tracking all my activities every single day until I secure another position. In order for this to work I need to set achievable targets daily in order to monitor the progress.

Oct 12th, 2024

Oct 13th, 2024

  • Refresh my knowledge on the basics of React RAW APIs

Oct 14th, 2024

  • Applied to 10 remote jobs
  • Cover some typescript basics like - narrowing, derived types

Oct 15th, 2024

  • Applied to 8 remote jobs
  • Refresh knowlege on React styling, form primitive, react form actions, error boundaries, importance of keys in lists

Oct 16th, 2024

  • Applied to 1 remote job
  • Was running errands all day, didn't do much

Oct 17th, 2024

  • Applied to 2 remote jobs
  • Got rejected by 2 companies
  • Got an AI video interview tommorrow
  • Refresher on react hooks, state initializers, popstate listeners

Oct 18th, 2024

  • Applied to 0 remote jobs
  • Interview went well, answered a couple of react questions on optimization, complex state management with redux and contextAPI, testing

Oct 19th, 2024

  • Took the day off to rest

Oct 20th, 2024

  • Took the day off to rest
  • Re-read coding career handbook written by swyx - focused on the section about significance of writing and documenting
  • Came across a video titled Hack your career by Troy hunt where he talked about how writing made him well-known and a thought leader in areas of security. I also picked up how writing and creating courses on plural sight became like a padding for him when he lost his role at pfizer

Oct 21th, 2024

  • Watched a video of how to make directories by Greg

Oct 22th, 2024

  • Applied to 1 job
  • Visited the farm

Oct 23th, 2024

  • Don't remember to be honest

Oct 24th, 2024

  • Don't remember to be honest

Oct 25th, 2024

  • Started trying out GPT engineer (It is amazing!!!)

Oct 26th, 2024

  • Don't remember to be honest

Oct 27th, 2024

  • Don't remember to be honest

Oct 28th, 2024

  • Don't remember to be honest

Oct 29th, 2024

  • Complex state management with useReducer

Oct 30th, 2024

  • Complex state management with useReducer

Oct 31th, 2024