This blog hasn’t seen much action lately, but that’s a misrepresentation of my online interactions. Most of my interaction in the past few months has been on Stack Overflow Q&A, and some on Stack Overflow “Documentation” as well as a small amount on GitHub. I wanted to aggregate some of those interactions on my blog, as well as perhaps cross-post bits and pieces here, mainly for my own reference.
Let’s start with the first: aggregating the bits and pieces that I want to have easy links to.
Stack Overflow Documentation
- “Showcasing all common Angular constructs“. I’m linking to the most up to date version. I wrote V1 of that article, which was subsequently improved by various other folks. It’s the tutorial (and equally important: the style of tutorial) I wish I’d had when I started learning Angular.
- KnockoutJS “Equivalents of AngularJS bindings“. Linked page summarizes the state SO Documentation is currently in, at least for low-traffic tags: little and poor collaboration, and some frustration because some decent examples I wrote just don’t get reviewed (neither approved nor rejected). Thinking I might turn my content there into a (series of) blog post(s) here. Not sure yet.
Stack Exchange Q&A
At around 20 questions and 200 answers in 2016 so far I’d say I’m “moderately active”. Here’s a few that stood out when I browsed through my recent history:
- On (being able to change) Angular Constants, and Object.freeze. Times like these I count myself blessed having learned about pointers the hard way, before moving on to languages where you hardly (see that you) use pointers anymore.
- A late answer to a seemingly impossible situation, where building C♯ code in Release mode actually changed the call stack being logged. With 20/20 hind sight the root cause is obvious, but it had me chasing my tail for almost a day.
- A long-winded question on custom JsonConverters with a (more to-the-point) self-answer, grabbing stray upvotes over time, which feels great because it probably means sharing my findings helped others as well.
- And another very long-winded self-answered question on Typescript and Chutzpah, with nearly no views, no upvotes for the answer or the question, but on the other hand: interaction with Chutzpah’s creator, helping me find a solution.
- Remixing a five-year-old answer on mocking an IEnumerable with Moq into a new answer, the CC-By-SA license and Q&A format at its best.
I also gave SoftwareRecs.SE another shot, posting some questions, but they fit right into my question history: lots of unanswered tumbleweeds. And not for lack of trying, as I spend a lot of effort on making my questions there as good as they can be. The main reason I do that (and the reason I keep coming back to softwarerecs.se, in spite of the tumbleweed-factor) is that thinking carefully about your wishes and requirements at the least will help you find something yourself, if no-one else recommends anything.
And even though I haven’t interacted with Cooking.SE much lately, every stray upvote now and then to my “Cooking fish in a dishwasher” answer makes me smile.
GitHub
I don’t interact as much here yet as I’d like. I specifically wish I remembered more often than a measly four times to create gists, because the ones I did create are ones I tend to go back to. In addition to gists, I’ve gotten to creating only very few issues and pull requests, something I want to work on.
One shoutout by the way to the DefinitelyTyped repository, because that community has to deal with a really scattered committer base, and seem to do so pretty well. My pull request (though small) was reviewed and merged quite quickly.
In Closing…
What to do next? The tags I followed on Stack Overflow for answering seem to have dried up a bit. Perhaps some more interaction on GitHub, as well as re-editing some of the above links into blog posts? Then again, a few weeks of vacation to Hawaii are coming up as well, so it might be a while again before posting…