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Monthly Challenge for November 2023: Let's write 100k words together!
This month we're working together to blog 100,000 words! Based off the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Challenge, we'll be doing the tech take on writing and working together towards the goal while posting on our own blogs. We hit over 100k words last year, and we're going to start this year's challenge with a goal of 100k words.
Get those blog posts up!
Current status:
- 100k goal completed!!!
- 150k goal completed!!!
Stretch Goal 2: 150,083 out of 200,000 words
Our Posts:
Abbey Perini
Permalink to Abbey Perini 's posts- 12 Tips for Attending a Tech Conference
(902 words)
Aishwarya Mali
Permalink to Aishwarya Mali's posts- How to convert an Object into an array?
(502 words)
Alex Curtis-Slep
Permalink to Alex Curtis-Slep's posts- Lessons from Starting an Open Source Project
(314 words)
Amy Shackles
Permalink to Amy Shackles's posts- Triangles Made of Borders?
(1,359 words) - Your Go-To Regular Expression Reference
(2,272 words) - Your Go-To Regular Expression Reference: Control Characters
(270 words) - Your Go-To Regular Expression Reference: Hexadecimals
(1,693 words) - Your Go-To Regular Expression Reference: Unicode Part I
(53,423 words)
Anshuman Sathua
Permalink to Anshuman Sathua's postsAyu Adiati
Permalink to Ayu Adiati's posts- Building Your Brand as a Developer Through Open Source
(1,206 words) - How to Resolve Merge Conflicts Using the Merge Editor Feature on VS Code
(857 words) - How to Keep Branches Up-to-Date and Resolve Merge Conflicts in GitHub and VS Code
(1,437 words) - How to Become a Better Open Source Maintainer
(1,128 words) - How to Add a Table of Contents to Your Article on Ghost
(1,752 words)
BekahHW
Permalink to BekahHW's posts- Blogging 2023 Monthly Challenge!
(534 words) - How to Get Your Pull Request Reviewed
(689 words) - A Complete Guide to Getting Started in Open Source
(842 words) - Our Hacktoberfest Success Story
(837 words) - Hiring, Firing, and Becoming Indispensable
(3,009 words) - So You're Interested in Being an Open Source Maintainer
(1,933 words) - The Evolving Landscape of DevRel: Trends and Predictions for 2023
(3,759 words) - Strategies for Successful Contributor Onboarding
(1,944 words) - What to do when your PR fails
(762 words) - Job Seekers Worksheet: Build Your Resume with Open Source
(552 words) - Join Virtual Coffee in the Creative Community Monthly Challenge!
(392 words) - A Year in Review: Celebrating the Virtual Coffee Community
(1,807 words)
Chris Jarvis
Permalink to Chris Jarvis's posts- HacktoberFest Wrap Up
(270 words) - What are your goal for the week of Nov 6?
(220 words) - I want a new Rubber Duck
(900 words) - What are your goals for the week of Nov 13?
(259 words) - Darkmode Duck and other CSS Ducks
(590 words) - What are your Goals for the week of Nov 20?
(373 words) - 2023 Black Friday & Cyber Monday for Developers
(594 words) - What are your goals for the week of November 27?
(447 words) - 2023 Devloper Advent Calendars
(851 words) - Ugky Sweater: Millennium Falcon
(1,013 words)
Christine Belzie
Permalink to Christine Belzie 's postsDan Ott
Permalink to Dan Ott's posts- Virtual Coffee Hacktoberfest 2023 Roundup
(597 words)
David Akim
Permalink to David Akim's posts- Using Plotly.js with React
(860 words) - Creating a movie finder app with Streamlit and OMDb API
(1,300 words) - Create an Agebot in Slack using Python
(920 words)
ethan freire
Permalink to ethan freire's postsEva Yu-Hwa Chen
Permalink to Eva Yu-Hwa Chen's posts- Troubleshooting Vite Deployment Issues on Netlify
(297 words) - The User Manual
(171 words)
James Curran
Permalink to James Curran's posts- What is (was) Beta Software?
(467 words) - The Oregon Trail Project - Part 0 - Intro
(880 words) - The Oregon Trail Project - Part 1 - Text (Markdig.SpectreConsole)
(678 words) - The Oregon Trail Project - Part 2 - Dates
(255 words) - The Oregon Trail Project - Part 3 - Data
(1,347 words) - The Oregon Trail Project - Part 4 - Trail Events
(949 words)
Jessica Wilkins
Permalink to Jessica Wilkins's posts- How to Find Discipline in Coding
(602 words) - How to Survive a Tech Layoff
(967 words) - How to Get Involved with Twitter Spaces
(948 words) - Should you pay for programming courses?
(850 words) - Should you expect 100k for your first job?
(597 words) - Should you take DSA style interviews?
(1,245 words) - How to avoid these Pull Request mistakes
(1,417 words) - Should you work remotely in Tech?
(829 words) - How to find good OSS issues
(836 words) - How to Build a Visualization for Leetcode's Two Sum Problem – HTML, CSS, & JavaScript Project
(4,801 words) - How to network on Twitch
(760 words) - My Thoughts on Danny's Paid Courses List
(1,302 words) - Should you do Take Home Assignments?
(845 words)
Klesta Luli
Permalink to Klesta Luli's posts- Volunteering as a Developer: Win-Win for You and the Tech Community
(1,164 words) - Git Basics: Git Commands and How to Use Them
(620 words)
Lucia Cerchie
Permalink to Lucia Cerchie's postsMeg Divringi
Permalink to Meg Divringi's posts- Why I Love Interviewing And How You Can Too
(905 words)
Michael Jolley
Permalink to Michael Jolley's posts- Using Primary Constructors in C# 12 & .NET 8
(771 words) - Alias any Type with C# 12
(331 words)
Mike Street
Permalink to Mike Street's posts- Login with Puppeteer and re-use cookies for another window
(716 words) - Accessing iframe content and JavaScript variables from Puppeteer
(679 words)
Nick Taylor
Permalink to Nick Taylor's posts- GitHub Actions: A Maintainer's Best Friend
(752 words) - TypeScript and React: Enforcing Props for Accessibility
(1,162 words) - Boost productivity with the GitHub CLI
(1,429 words) - Infer Types to Avoid Explicit Types
(1,321 words) - HTML Data Attributes: One of the Original State Management Libraries
(780 words)
Oluwatobi Sofela
Permalink to Oluwatobi Sofela's posts- How to Become a Modern Developer by Learning Soft Skills
(1,505 words) - Responsive Web Design – How to Create Responsive Web Apps
(836 words) - Closures in JavaScript Explained – Complete Guide to JavaScript Closures
(2,210 words)
Raynaldo Sutisna
Permalink to Raynaldo Sutisna's posts- Binary Search Finding Max/Min Template in Javascript
(1,322 words) - Leetcode Heap (Priority Queue) in JavaScript
(1,646 words) - 📚 RTK Query: Understanding useQuery hook
(1,917 words)
Satoshi S.
Permalink to Satoshi S.'s posts- Luck = [Doing Things] x [Telling People]
(349 words)
Tamara and Jörn
Permalink to Tamara and Jörn's posts- Finding a Name and Building a Prototype
(973 words) - Hackathon Update
(1,035 words) - Gathering Feedback
(1,324 words)
Tammy Miller
Permalink to Tammy Miller's postsTeri Eyenike
Permalink to Teri Eyenike's posts- Shield Your Thoughts: Building an Encrypted Note App with React and Pangea Authentication
(1,900 words) - Bright Data Success Stories: Realizing the Impact of Ethical Web Scraping
(774 words)
Victoria Lo
Permalink to Victoria Lo's posts- 5 Benefits of Joining an Offline Tech Community
(1,000 words)
Wonuola
Permalink to Wonuola's posts- Demystifying the Internet
(3,516 words) - How to use Postman for API documentation
(1,169 words)
Totals:
| Member Totals | Posts | Total Words |
|---|---|---|
| Amy Shackles | 5 | 59,017 |
| BekahHW | 12 | 17,060 |
| Jessica Wilkins | 13 | 15,999 |
| Ayu Adiati | 5 | 6,380 |
| Chris Jarvis | 10 | 5,517 |
| Nick Taylor | 5 | 5,444 |
| Raynaldo Sutisna | 3 | 4,885 |
| Wonuola | 2 | 4,685 |
| James Curran | 6 | 4,576 |
| Oluwatobi Sofela | 3 | 4,551 |
| Tamara and Jörn | 3 | 3,332 |
| David Akim | 3 | 3,080 |
| Teri Eyenike | 2 | 2,674 |
| Klesta Luli | 2 | 1,784 |
| Mike Street | 2 | 1,395 |
| Michael Jolley | 2 | 1,102 |
| Victoria Lo | 1 | 1,000 |
| Meg Divringi | 1 | 905 |
| Abbey Perini | 1 | 902 |
| ethan freire | 1 | 895 |
| Christine Belzie | 1 | 824 |
| Lucia Cerchie | 1 | 787 |
| Anshuman Sathua | 1 | 636 |
| Dan Ott | 1 | 597 |
| Aishwarya Mali | 1 | 502 |
| Eva Yu-Hwa Chen | 2 | 468 |
| Tammy Miller | 1 | 423 |
| Satoshi S. | 1 | 349 |
| Alex Curtis-Slep | 1 | 314 |
| Total | 92 | 150,083 words |
How to Participate
Once you've written and published your content, add your entry to our VC NaNoWriMo entry form!
What kind of content counts towards the challenge?
Any tech-related blog posts or articles published in the month of November! Feel free to include code samples in your word count totals (if it's a word and you wrote it, we'll count it 😊).
While we love good documentation here at Virtual Coffee, README docs or anything else you would normally consider documentation don't count for this challenge.
Since last year, we're embracing an official topic as well as general topics. We hope to add a resource section to our site for Building Your Personal Brand. We'd love to feature our members' blog posts on the topic.
What if I'm not confident about my writing?
We all start somewhere. The more you practice, the better you'll get. We have volunteers who are willing to proofread and give you feedback on your writing. Just put a link to your blog post draft in the #monthly-challenge channel and ask for the help you need.
What if I don't know what to write about?
We've got you covered with extensive lists in this discussion and this discussion.
Developer Health Topic Suggestions
- Imposter Syndrome: What is it? What advice do you have for overcoming it?
- Burnout: We hear a lot about burnout in tech. Do you think this is industry-specific? What contributes to burnout? How do we navigate burnout? How can we reduce burnout in the industry?
- Physical Health: What equipment or practice has helped you to maintain physical health when you're at your computer all day?
- Psychological Safety: What does that mean? How do company culture, team dynamics, and good management impact it?
General Topic Suggestions
- What did your Virtual Coffee breakout room talk about recently? Can you compile a list of tips or takeaways from the conversation?
- What did you learn this week? One of the best ways to teach is by writing about something you just learned!
- Best Practices. What are some guidelines you've learned that can help developers create best practices?
- Compare and Contast. Have you learned a new language or new approach? How does that differ from what you've done in the past?
- What are 10 HTML tags you've never heard of or used?
- What did you learn from building a project using X JavaScript library/framework?
- What did you learn from doing an accessibility audit of your website?
- Hacktoberfest 2023: takeaways, review, tips.
- How to write good headlines for technical blogs?
- Beginner guide to getting started with Git.
- What did you learn from teaching yourself how to code and landing a dev job
- What Is Apache Kafka?
- How To Start Connecting With a New Community
- What Learning a Second Programming Language Taught Me About JS
A very special thanks goes out to Jessica Wilkins and Lucia Cerchie for helping to compose this list!
And remember, we're always here to help ❤️