100 Days of Code: 91-100 (+ Reflection)

October 30, 2023

Reflection on the Whole Journey

What started with messing around with Clojure and blogging on Hashnode for fun ended up with me making my first contributions to open-source, starting to build real projects, and aspiring to be a back-end developer using Go. That was both interesting and fun.

While I didn’t end the challenge with a complete achievement like a finished project or something, I am proud the most of getting a lot of clarity out of this journey. I have been an aimless hobbyist for so many years, and I’m grateful for all the skills I built over that time, but I always had the feeling that I could do more with these skills but never acted on that feeling. Now, I have a language that I am happy with and ready to learn at a deeper level, and I have a goal to aim for!

So, I think that these 100 days were a success in terms of setting the stage for what I’ll be doing from now on to prepare myself for a back-end job. Looking forward to the future!

Day 91 / Oct 20

• Made a little progress in Boot.dev

• Did some work on the learnbuildteach.com code repo

Day 92 / Oct 21

• Did some work on my Go CLI project

Day 93 / Oct 22

• Redid some data structures exercises in Boot.dev

• Did a little Go tutorial on developing a REST API with Gin

Day 94 / Oct 23

• More Boot.dev data structures

Day 95 / Oct 24

• Also more Boot.dev data structures

Day 96 / Oct 25

• Did a Go tutorial on type parameters and type constraints… interesting stuff!

• Some work on my Go CLI

• Some blog writing

Day 97 / Oct 26

• Solved my first LeetCode problem

• Some work in the guided JS project in Boot.dev, plus some data structures

• Added some documentation to my Go CLI project in the README

Day 98 / Oct 27

• Pushed a branch on my fork of the learnbuildteach.com source code to confirm some things before proceeding

• Completed a step in the guided JS project in Boot.dev

• Wrote another solution to yesterday’s LeetCode problem to make it more efficient, and solved a new one

Day 99 / Oct 28

• Started adding some tests to my Go project

• Did a little work on the LBT website

• Published Typing and Tooling

Day 100 / Oct 29

• Started reading “Effective Go” which is an official document about the unique and idiomatic features of Go code

• Did a tutorial for a full-stack app with Go and HTMX (that’s the first time I write some HTMX!)

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