Alok Yadav

Solving problems with code

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

Launching TrackMyCourse 🚀

Ever started a YouTube playlist... and never finished it?
I did too.

So I built TrackMyCourse – a free Chrome extension to track playlist progress with checkmarks & percentage.

Learn smarter, not scattered → https://t.co/cy8lGxVzEQ

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

Participating in the @ChaiCodeHQ hackathon to build a complete AI-assisted workflow for a feature in a product, from idea to production.

The project setup itself is going to take a lot of time. Many learnings ahead...

@Hiteshdotcom @piyushgarg_dev

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

Networking is a rabbit hole.

I started to learn about localhost and after 2 hours I found myself reading about the 4 way handshake happens when my laptop connects to my mobile's hotspot.

It's crazy that we know almost nothing about things we use daily.

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

Just dropped a reel sharing my Web Dev Cohort journey @ChaiCodeHQ

Check it out: https://t.co/5uhbdNyeUL

@Hiteshdotcom @piyushgarg_dev @nirudhuuu @yntpdotme @surajtwt_ @BlazeisCoding @devwithjay

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https://t.co/77u39Qgyge

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

pushed a new update on TrackMyCourse.

- now each video of tracked playlists have a "Watched" button, next to Like/Dislike button.

- everything is updated live. no stale ui, even on multiple tabs/windows.

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

@shwetanigam_dev what was the problem? 🧐

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

@tusharcodesio great video bhai 👍
this is exactly what i had done to understand trpc a few days back.

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

@piyushgarg_dev unlimited money hack: just send amount in negative 😀

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

@mehulmpt why llms love em dashes?

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

today's class was the most overwhelming till now.

@piyushgarg_dev sir explains:
- monorepo
- REST architecture being loosely coupled
- gRPC and tRPC

got to learn how monorepo is scalable and tRPC actually makes it hard to make obvious mistakes.

@Hiteshdotcom
@nirudhuuu

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

@Hiteshdotcom these days I use Google’s AI search mode for learning new topics instead of ChatGPT.

ChatGPT, generates its own explanations on edge cases, which aren’t always accurate.

In AI mode, I also get source links to read actual pages when needed and not totally depend on LLM response

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

that's why, almost every function in my project takes that "signal" to check if it is aborted before doing any heavy task.

If you have any questions, feel free to discuss.

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

Today, @Hiteshdotcom sir covered AbortController in class.

I had actually come across it earlier while trying to stop my own function execution midway (not just fetch)

If you want to see a practical usecase, check out my repo: https://t.co/bA3WuOLFo4

@piyushgarg_dev @nirudhuuu

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

in my project, a single click trigger function that takes a few seconds to complete, like starting a course, waiting for a dom element, etc.

so, if the user navigates to another page, i don't want to still process it and save unintended data to storage.

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

This time, going all in React in upcoming weeks. Already learnt the basics.

Learning from the best @Hiteshdotcom @piyushgarg_dev @nirudhuuu @ChaiCodeHQ

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

one of the coolest things I have used in javascript is the AbortController.

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

even google knows 😄

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

track-my-course hits 50 stars on GitHub ⭐

something i built for myself is now used by thousands.

thanks everyone for the support.

having @the2ndfloorguy in the list, special one for me ♥️

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

@sunnykgupta thinking and building things end-to-end is really satisfying.

But sometimes, there are a lot of other works pending due to which i use a few things abstracted to get the work done.

[Alok Yadav @alokcodes]

@atulkawasthi @sunnykgupta ReferenceError: 'alive' not found 💀