Simon Partridge

Completed @theSchoolOfCode in Aug 2022 👨‍💻🤘
Just accepted my first software developer job 🥳🍻
Former Chemist & Freelance Science Copyeditor 🧪✍🏻

[Simon Partridge @simonisworking]

@brycensoc Sure thing, happy to 👍

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@brycensoc Nice, I'll have to see what data my banks offer with their APIs

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@skandog_ Too true. My afternoons and evenings are spent trying to do fun coding things to regenerate the energy I’ve lost making applications in the morning!

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[Chris Fleming @chrisfluming]

elon musk’s twitter journey is very jack skellington trying to do christmas

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Also, while console.table is a huge help with visualisation when manipulating 2D arrays, it did cause my valid codewars solution to time out - you live and learn

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#100DaysOfCode Round 2, Day 13
Weekly codewars club with @codedresser today. Great to catch up, discuss progress, and chat solutions about to tricky problems. Really pleased with this "flood-fill" algorithm I used to solve a maze.

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Slowly understanding how to use recursion better, but does anyone get to the point where it doesn't make their brain turn inside out when writing it?

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#100DaysOfCode Round 2, Day 10-12
Over the last few days, I've been practising using TypeScript with NextJS in preparation for building a new app for my portfolio. I've also been getting to grips with recursion, and used it to solve a 4kyu codewars kata that had me stuck!

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I might stick to the "old ways" in my current attempt at a Next.js/Typescript project until smarter people than me can put some good tutorials together, BUT it's interesting to see what changes are coming.

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For those who don't have time to watch the full Next.js 13 conference keynote, I highly recommend this video summary https://t.co/irlY2zXSz6

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@Alicia_noreally Hey, thanks! I actually took the idea from this codepen https://t.co/mL5oBEKEYH
It's basically a CSS animation that scrolls stepwise through this image https://t.co/2l5JTTOGIa, resulting in the nice animation

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#100DaysOfCode Round 2, Day 9
Today I updated some styling on my portfolio site, which I've neglected to share here for a long time: https://t.co/9uaybt0pxH
In amongst the job applications, I also deployed an app backend/database with Railway for the first time.

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@Lauro235 Congrats on the interview! But can't believe you're cheating on JS with PHP 😢😢😢

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@Alicia_noreally We styled our SoC final project with Tailwind, and I basically only used this cheatsheet for it. Might help you too
https://t.co/4QfvCwVdbs

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I've also been brushing up and extending my JavaScript knowledge by taking the JavaScript Algorithm and Data Structures Certification @freeCodeCamp

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#100DaysOfCode Round 2, Days 7 & 8
Much like the UK government, I've spent much of this week stuck in a downward spiral... on @codewars that is. Chuffed to get my first 3kyu kata completed as part of my weekly codewars club!

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#100DaysOfCode Round 2, Days 5&6
Spent the last couple of days rejigging my portfolio site, particularly sorting out the responsiveness. Its been interesting getting to know another CSS library in Styled Components - found it enjoyable to use!

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#100DaysOfCode Round 2, Day 4
Today I embarked on a redesign of my underwhelming (and unfinished) portfolio site. This to support an all-out assault on job applications I'll be embarking on for the coming weeks. Time to step it up! Recruiters beware!

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We started here: https://t.co/cyQova95sY

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#100DaysOfCode Round 2, Day 3
Yesterday, @codedresser and I started a weekly codewars club (his great idea) - we’ll take turns suggesting a harder kata and then discuss our different solutions. A great way to get back into @codewars and tackle more complicated kata!