Keyboard Confessions - Episode # 24
Psycho Here ;-)
Hi everyone,
Welcome to the 24th episode of “KEYBOARD CONFESSIONS”
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Anyways, lets get into this week’s episode.
Development Logs
YouTube Video
I tried GitLab the previous week and think of making a video on it.
So, I recorded a video where i talk about GitLab basics, from creating account, creating groups and projects, setting up SSH keys and pushing to that project.
Overall, It was the same process as GitHub just platform is changed and so is the workflow.
Although, It didn’t work with my current workflow.
But here is the video → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADTdnm6EXng
This week video is bit pending, maybe I will upload tonight or after 2-3 days.
LUMS Startup Weekend
So, I participated in Startup Weekend Hackathon from 7 to 9 November.
To be honest, I went on some event after a long time.
Last time I remember it was I think PUCON, I didn’t go to any physical event or hackathon just because I didn’t want to at that time. But I felt great after attending this event.
Overall, energy was great. I learn a lot of new things. I even recorded videos that I thought of making a complete video for youtube but didn’t get the time to edit it. So i will try to edit video and post it on youtube/insta.
I wrote linkedin post about it:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7394405602254462976/
Weekend Build Marathon
So, inspired from LUMS startup hackathon, I decided to do something similar at Fluxxion.
So, I came up with the idea of Weekend Build Marathon.
A kind of marathon where participants make the project on a specified theme and we will announce the winner and post on our socials.
Sounds Great? maybe.
So, I announced the first version of it.
Got like 80 registrations on the event.
Its just completed yet with very few project submissions then total registration but yeah I think that’s not a big deal.
FYP
It was a complete disaster and headache last week.
So, Last week was the deadline for submitting the Design document of FYP.
Its a kind of blueprint that outlines the plan for the project before implementation begins.
And It was a complete fu**ed up scene.
As you may know I am bit lazy person, I complete my work at the very last minute. But I got same group members 😊
I have to change the model and every other thing.
Anyways, at the very last minute, I was able to submit the document.
I will talk about all of this in my upcoming video.
Fluxxion
I made some changes in Fluxxion.
First of all, we are getting engagement issues, most persons were not returning to the platform after first time login. And some users don’t know what to do after logging in to the platform.
So, I came up with a plan of implmenting a Quest system.
Like kind of system that tells person what to do after coming to platform. Its like tutorial type system, it will give options to user, user pick that and complete to get points.
Also did some little tweaks and changes like adding previous and next button on challenge page so user can move to other challenge after completing it.
Many more changes to come.
Weekly Picks
These are some videos, articles & resources for this week that I found helpful.
Opportunities are not equal for everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ashfLSm3tc
https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-software-setting-expectations-and-roadmap
That’s it for this one.
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See you in the next one ;)
- Psycho
