#hacktoberfest

Working on a coding project and posting about about it every day for a month is a huge challenge in a normal year, but considering how exhausting 2020 has been, I’m feeling in the mood for a softer, chiller version of Apptober this year.

So for those of you who are feeling that creative autumn maker’s vibe, but are too burnt out to commit to a month-long coding project, I invite you to participate in:

Cozy Apptober

Instead of trying to finish a whole coding project and posting about it everyday as in Apptobers past, try one of these bite-sized options (and tag @apptober please, we wanna hear about it!):

Take a moment to appreciate your past coding projects; implement one of those small TODOs or features that you never got around to the first time, or post a screenshot or two, or write about your fav part

Write a post or two about the kind of coding projects that fill you with joy. Do you love javascript development? Want to make games with Unity? Is there something you’re looking forward to building some day?

Choose a project that interests you and do some research on it, then liveblog post about what you find.

post a pic of your rubber duck debugging buddy

As always, happy coding!

Hullo!

Today @delightedcrow and I spent some time implementing our solution for Habitica. We figured the habitica team would be busy with other changes, and probably wouldn't have time to get back to us about minor design decisions on a low priority ticket. So we picked the design that made the most sense to us!

We added a new cell type to the storyboard, fiddled with constraints so it looked nice, and then edited the code so that the user data actually showed up. Mostly that was 'Crow, but I did contribute some helper code to get the right icon for the different classes, and help with research.

I think the hardest part was figuring out GitHub Pull Requests to share my code with 'Crow, and then getting it to play nice with Xcode since I forgot to commit the changes to the project.pbxproj file.

So, here are the before→after images:

It's been 1 week of #Hacktoberfest and #pencil2d was blessed with a few contributors! 😇 We now have TIFF I/O (flattened) support, individual grid division lines and my fave, multi-frame operations!!! (GIF) If you'd like to help on #Hacktoberfest2018 visit the linked article! <3

While looking through the @habitica source code and researching issues, @delightedcrow and I needed a way to record our findings and share information without having to interrupt or wait for each other. ‘Crow found a cool app called Notion (www.notion.so) that let us both make notes, add images, and simultaneously edit the same document.

(You can set random banners and clip art as the icons of the page you are working on. Naturally we just used the first ones that came up because they were hilarious.)

If you’d asked me a month ago whether I’d be contributing to multiple open source projects again this year, I’d probably have said, “Not sure I’ll have the time.” But here we are — challenge completed ✅ https://holopin.io/@georgioupanayiotis This year, I focused on small but meaningful contributions: improving responsive design, fixing accessibility issues, and helping with documentation —…