Unison minimap, new client, and events (2023, Q2)

This is a recap of my activities in Q2 2023.
One highlight was that my PRs for Unison UI-Core were merged, especially a minimap UI component! It’s great to contribute to a progressive technology like Unison language by writing Elm, which is also a great language.

Also, in Q2, some projects with new clients started.
I hope these activities in Q2 bring some more fun and opportunities in the future.

Client work

• minutiae and related apps 🇺🇸
  • iOS app feature update. Quite a lot of logic was changed recently.
  • Some scripts in Python and TypeScript
• DigitalCube projects 🇯🇵
  • A new client since June!
  • Writing TypeScript for backend
  • NestJS, AWS Lambda, Serverless, etc
• Website maintenance work 🇳🇱
• (Used a lot of time & energy to look for new clients)

Personal projects

• Unison UI-Core and LocalUI contribution

  • 4 pull requests were merged!

    • Add UI samples to storybook, 3 April
    • Update storybook sample json handling, add Workspace story, 5 May
    • Fix query percent encoding, 24 May
    • Workspace minimap, 15 June

    Minimap is released on UnisonShare!

    

    This was a very grateful moment for me as I always wanted to work on open-source projects (but wasn’t able to find suitable projects for a while), and this UI is built using Elm, which is my favorite language. Working on OSS is great as my code becomes public and could be used by many developers.

• Blog post

  • 10 years as a software engineer, 04 April
    A summary of my 10 years.

    

  • Looking for projects to work on!, 05 May

Learning

• Python
  Learning python for future work.
  • Python for Data Analysis
  • Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript

    

• MPS (Meta Programming System)
• Preparing for Advanced Functional Programming in Haskell in July
• Dutch (Language Exchange)

Events

• Coffee coding, almost every Saturday
• AdvancedJS Amsterdam, 19 April, 17 May
• Rust Meetup Amsterdam, 2 May, Fiberplane
• Effortless Data Analysis and Cleaning with Data Wrangler in VS Code, 4 May
• Fiber Festival, 14 May

  

• Attending some lectures at SPUI25
  • AI prompt battle by HMM, 19 May

    

• Rijksakademie OpenStudio, 9 June

  

• Expat Emotions and the Brain, webinar, 13 June
• Unison Community Coding, 14 June
  This is a nice event to catch up with Unison language. Almost every Wednesday.
• MozFest House in Amsterdam, 20-21 June

  

Other

• Trying Arc browser since June

  

• Periodical health check: health is important!
• Met a lot of friends🙂

Thank you for reading. I hope you also had a great Q2, and wish you a greater Q3.