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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely mind blown that the recent Programming Podcast guested the one and only Barbara Oakley 🤯 I can only imagine what it must have been like for @leonnoel.bsky.social and @dthompsondev.bsky.social to be able to sit down and have a conversation with her #theprogrammingpodcast

Youtube video full screen split into three parts - leon on the left, danny on the middle, barbara on the right

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 5h

Hunterober day 2 going strong with @grahammcbain.bsky.social
spilling the tea - from bootcamp to senior advocate Ampcode ☕️ #100devs #huntober

Two speakers are engaged in a virtual discussion, visible in video frames. Below, 484 audience members are represented by colorful icons and usernames.

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Leon Noel @leonnoel.bsky.social · 6h

Yesterday, #100Devs talked about crafting a story that gets you hired!

Today @grahammcbain.bsky.social who went from bootcamp grad to Senior Developer Advocate working on Amp Code is

Telling their story, breaking down the agentic coding space, & giving everyone free credits in 30 mins!

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 7h

But I also want to think about what users would want from an app like this - what features would be beneficial to them, how would those features reduce user pain points, and what those features would look like on a UI/UX perspective.

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 7h

Moving forward from the conf content card, I wanna tackle how to handle multiple conferences in the same state ie. Vercel Ship and DevRelCon. I want to start thinking about international conferences, and how I would handle implementing that.

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 7h

1/3 🧵
Played around w/ the conf content card design & layout. Taking a step back & observing my changes, I'm not a fan of how the image looks in perspective to the rest of the card. I feel I could find a better location to place the conf link here 🤔 #buildinpublic #100devs

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 12h

Friday morning hanging out in the #CYC discord with the crew and @dthompsondev.bsky.social as he drops gems and strategies while answering questions 💎🔥

Danny thompson live video chat on discord staget with 58 people in the audience with various pfp images in a grid layout

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 1d

"You are the missing LEGO piece and if you don't see it, someone else will" - @leonnoel.bsky.social #100devs #huntober

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 1d

By defining all the tabbing and keyboard logic in a useEffect hook, I was able to add them to our svg and path elements after rendering the component.

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 1d

Due to the inability of adding the ability to tab/keyboard navigate through the USA map directly with the mirawision/usa-map-react, I had to create a parent container where I could instead.

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 1d

By defining ref={usaMapTabbingKeyboardContainer} on my parent container, I was able to create a reference to the <div> parent element wrapping around the <USAMapLib> component. This allowed me to interact with it later in the code.

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 1d

1/4 🧵
TL;DR: Implemented navigating the states in the USA map graphic using tabbing and keyboard while also looking good design-wise. Started working on styling for the conference content.

#100devs #buildinpublic

Map of the United States highlighting Florida in teal, with surrounding states in grey. A sidebar shows "React Miami" event details dated April 17-18, 2025.

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Leon Noel @leonnoel.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 1d

Got to yap with a fellow yapper from #100devs and Resilient Coders @codingwcal.bsky.social 😁 From lifesafers and life-savers (lifebuoys) to group projects and conferences, we got to learn more about each other ☺️ Hope he has a wonderful time at Afrotech!! 🙌