Weekly Notes 24/06/2024 - 30/06/2024

Hi my dear,

This week, I was able to complete some pending tasks and thoroughly enjoyed traveling and networking with new people at AWS Community Day 2024 in Colombo.

Uki

This week, my involvement with Uki was limited to the weekend online cohort. Over the weekend, I began conducting a session on Node.js. I have learned significantly more through teaching Node.js than I did while working with it professionally. There's a quote that captures this idea perfectly: "We learn more when we teach others."

Inspired by this experience, I am planning to write an article on how Node.js works. Additionally, I encouraged and explained to the students the benefits of writing code in TypeScript. This is my first time learning TypeScript, and through the process of teaching it, I am gaining a deeper understanding than I would have otherwise. This method of teaching is motivating me to explore TypeScript more thoroughly and to delve into additional topics as I teach.

AWS Community Day 2024: A glimpse as a YT short

Wrote a LinkedIn post. Check it out here.

Non-Profit Orgs stuffs

As I mentioned in my previous notes, I have been involving with Tech related stuffs with Noolaham Foundation & TAJ (Tamil Academic Journal). For Noolaham, I am going to start work on upgrading the current web platform since most of the tech stack are out of date. I have to get the help from Mr. Natkeeran from Canada. Under his guidance on the development, I will start working on these with a proper planning & migration etc. So, the next focus would be on creating a project plan and cost estimation. A new interesting phase is awaiting for me.

For TAJ, I have completed the basic development of the paper submission portal. I always embrace the power of open-source applications because they offer comprehensive documentation and the flexibility to customize according to our needs. While I am not a big fan of tweaking open-source applications, I managed to do so despite having limited experience with both the Open Journal System (OJS) and PHP.

Now, on the journal page, users can view the PDF of the paper, and with OJS, they can also view the paper on a separate page. Kudos to open source! The next step is to deploy the portal on an AWS server and configure a suitable sub-domain. Moving forward, papers can be submitted, managed, and published through this website.

Check it out here

Freelance & Side Projects

I'm not seeing much hope from freelancing sites at the moment, so I'm focusing on building personal projects and investing time in learning new things. 

In addition, since I'm working on a side project in mobile app startup, most of the bugs have been fixed, and now I'm concentrating on writing clean cod with refactoring. I expect to complete this by the end of the week.

Exercises

During my visit to Colombo, I managed to walk more than 2 miles each day over the course of two days. Unfortunately, that was the extent of my exercise for the week, which is quite inadequate. Starting next week, I plan to dedicate at least half an hour each day to exercise, even if it's just for walking.

New learning things & try outs:

As I mentioned last note, I started learning LLM though DataTalks Club still I am continuing with the first week lessons as I didn't get much time to follow further. I will definitely will have that momentum to do it in the upcoming weeks and also my blog app. I got stuck with selecting a better Rich Text Editor. I will sort it soon and will have a working blog app in Next JS & Nest JS soon.

Hoping for the best.

Until then, temporary bye till next week.

Thank you for reading.

With my Team Velaris during the Community Day

After finishing Community day, went to watch Maharaja movie in Bambalapitiya MC

a random walking path in Dehiwala, where I used to. wander along during my Undergraduate studies at SLIIT

A shot captured by proffessional photographer