As St. Patricks Day approaches I reflect I was at WordCamp last year about this time and decided it was time for a GitHub update.
I created my GitHub account back in 2012, and never really knew what to do with it. I mean, I didn’t have code that was so magical or wonderful that it needed to be shared with the world. And the years rolled by; 2012 became 2013, then 2014, and 2015 came and went. Then in 2016 I took part in an amazing program at General Assembly(GA), a coding school, called Web Development Intensive (WDI).

Now remember I have been building web pages since before HTML 3.2 can out, because I remember when it came out, or at least I started using it sometime in 1998. And I started building pages to the new 4.01 standard in 2000. So the WDI was a reboot for me. I had dealt with the buzz word Dynamic HTML, and XHTML phase, and then HTML 5 came out in for real in 2014.

I had tolerated JavaScript back in the early days because it would work in Netscape and IE, where as my beloved VB-Script only worked in IE. I was starting to use CSS back in 2000, but by 2011 CSS3 was here to stay, and growing. MY Basic JavaScript days were gone with jQuery, a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML, having taken its place in my tool-set some time back in 2012. All this adds up to still nothing worthy of adding to GitHub.
Along came 2014, the year of JavaScript fatigue. Every time I turned around, every MeetUp I would go to there was something new, that I was aware of, but didn’t really know. NodeJS with its V8 engine, Angular JS was replacing Backbone, Gulp was taking over from Grunt. And in 2016 I took part of the WDI at GA, and got me back on track.
GitHub Update 2018
Finally I learned how to work Git and GitHub. In 2016 I had 210 contributions, and then had a lag. Bounced came back in 2017, after the WordCamp 2017 with a pledge to do 100 Days of Code.
I had 409 contributions in 2017.
So my “State of the Union” GitHub Update is that I made 421 contributions in 108 repositories in the last year.
JavaScript fatigue
- Ember,
- Angular,
- React,
- Express,
- Grunt,
- Bower,
- npm,
- Broccoli,
- Gulp,
- Lodash,
- Underscore,
- rxjs,
- Knockout,
- SocketIO,
- Threejs,
- D3,
- Backbone,
- Ionic,
- Angular2,
- React Native,
- Redux,
- Alt,
- Reflux,
- Webpack,
- Bluebird,
- Express,
- Mocha,
- Jasmine,
- Chai,
- Less,
- Sass,
- Postcss.