JS101 Session 13 December - Last in year, planning for the new one - JS101 Handbook

[katjad]

It seems to me that we just started again after the summer, but here we go, it is almost Christmas.

We didn't have a presentation today, but @rinse0ut had (again!) two projects to show to us. After the JS101 terminal app, there is now a JS101 handbook! Check it out here: https://github.com/rinse0ut/javascript101-handbook This is going to be extremely useful for organising our collective wisdom and to point new members to. The other project is a budgetting app called 'Kitty', built on the (Choo framework)[https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo]. You can visit this link from your phone and then save it to your homescreen: https://rinse0ut.github.io/ It saves to local storage and works really well. I will try and use it (I definitely need it ;))

Welcome to the group @benbyford and welcome back, Chris (don't know your Github handle)! Ben runs - among many other things! - a meetup group called Southwest Futurists.

We had some interesting discussions about privacy and specifically emails (very insecure!). In general, bad days for internet privacy at the moment. - As for email, this project lets you set up your own email server easily https://mailinabox.email/ This looks really good (I once set one up from scracth only to then be told I shouldn't use it..) Another interesting project is lesspass for managing passwords. It has a commandline tool and uses pure functions to generate the same password each time from a set of data including the url of the service. Thanks for the links, Ben!

We also talked about plans for the new year, and one very good idea was that Tim will act as a timekeeper, so we will make sure there will be enough time for coding. So as before we will sometimes have presentations. At each session we will put a little agenda together for the next meeting, and then Tim will make sure we stick to it! Here is a space for collecting suggestions for topics: https://github.com/orgs/CodeHubOrg/projects/4

In terms of coding Tim and Dave looked at testing again (I think) and I started to work on embellishing a page with three charts with data grabbed from the Meetup Api but didn't get very far. - I also have once again not done my 'homework' about making our app more accessible to everybody. Hopefully in the new year!

If I forgot anything, please reply to this issue. Hope to see you all soon in the new year. Oh, when should we have the next session. Would it be okay to have it on the 10th of January?

[rinse0ut]

Thanks for the great write up Katja! The Kitty app can be view here: https://rinse0ut.github.io/ It would be great to have some feedback on the Javascript101 Handbook <https://javascript101.gitbooks.io/guide/> (and Knowledge base! <https://javascript101.gitbooks.io/knowledgebase>) so that we make improvements. Jan 10th sounds good to me for the next session. Have a Merry Xmas!

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On 14 December 2016 at 02:13, Katja Durrani ***@***.***> wrote: It seems to me that we just started again after the summer, but here we go, it is almost Christmas. We didn't have a presentation today, but @rinse0ut <https://github.com/rinse0ut> had (again!) two projects to show to us. After the JS101 terminal app, there is now a JS101 handbook! Check it out here: https://github.com/rinse0ut/javascript101-handbook This is going to be extremely useful for organising our collective wisdom and to point new members to. The other project is a budgetting app called 'Kitty', built on the (Choo framework)[https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo]. You can visit this link from your phone and then save it to your homescreen. It saves to local storage and works really well. I will try and use it (I definitely need it ;)) Welcome to the group @benbyford <https://github.com/benbyford> and welcome back, Chris (don't know your Github handle)! Ben runs - among many other things! - a meetup group called (Southwest Futurists)[ https://www.meetup.com/South-West-Futurists/]. We had some interesting discussions about privacy and specifically emails (very insecure!). In general, bad days for internet privacy at the moment. - As for email, this project lets you set up your own email server easily https://mailinabox.email/ This looks really good (I once set one up from scracth only to then be told I shouldn't use it..) Another interesting project is lesspass <https://lesspass.com> for managing passwords. It has a commandline tool and uses pure functions to generate the same password each time from a set of data including the url of the service. Thanks for the links, Ben! We also talked about plans for the new year, and one very good idea was that Tim will act as a timekeeper, so we will make sure there will be enough time for coding. So as before we will sometimes have presentations. At each session we will put a little agenda together for the next meeting, and then Tim will make sure we stick to it! Here is a space for collecting suggestions for topics: https://github.com/orgs/CodeHubOrg/projects/4 In terms of coding Tim and Dave looked at testing again (I think) and I started to work on embellishing a page with three charts with data grabbed from the Meetup Api but didn't get very far. - I also have once again not done my 'homework' about making our app more accessible to everybody. Hopefully in the new year! If I forgot anything, please reply to this issue. Hope to see you all soon in the new year. Oh, when should we have the next session. Would it be okay to have it on the 10th of January? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#39>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABYlgKjDdntNmqq8XafZY9k3H8syojI5ks5rH1C2gaJpZM4LMdJk> .

[Gicela]

@rinse0ut Really like the style of the guide. I will certainly be able to contribute to this. Thank you for starting this out. 👍
Happy New Year!