Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Reflections on my Project52

Sponsored · Your Podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly. Share. Educate. Inspire. Entertain. You do you. We'll handle the rest. →
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj Aldo Ziflaj
May 14, 2016
Programming
0
510

Reflections on my Project52

A presentation on my Project52 for Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) 2016

Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj

Aldo Ziflaj

May 14, 2016
Tweet

More Decks by Aldo Ziflaj

See All by Aldo Ziflaj
Hands-on Data Orchestration: Building a CDC Pipeline on top of Kafka and Kubernetes
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj aziflaj
3
390
No-Bullshit Guide into Building Software
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj aziflaj
0
310
Ruby is dead. Long live Ruby
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj aziflaj
0
400
How to become a better developer
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj aziflaj
0
230
Building CLI apps with Ruby
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj aziflaj
0
66
Git SCM
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj aziflaj
0
290
Cryptanalysis - basic ciphers and a bit more
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj aziflaj
0
120
Some hours of python
Avatar for Aldo Ziflaj aziflaj
0
67

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
DevFest Android in Korea 2025 - 개발자 커뮤니티를 통해 얻는 가치
Avatar for Suhyeon Kim wisemuji
0
190
Claude Codeの「Compacting Conversation」を体感50%減！ CLAUDE.md + 8 Skills で挑むコンテキスト管理術
Avatar for Kazuki Murahama kmurahama
1
790
Unicodeどうしてる？ PHPから見たUnicode対応と他言語での対応についてのお伺い
Avatar for てきめん tekimen youkidearitai
PRO
0
950
Patterns of Patterns
Avatar for Denys Poltorak denyspoltorak
0
1.3k
.NET Conf 2025 の興味のあるセッ ションを復習した / dotnet conf 2025 quick recap for backend engineer
Avatar for Tomohisa Takaoka tomohisa
0
120
SQL Server 2025 LT
Avatar for Oda Shinsuke odashinsuke
0
200
IFSによる形状設計／デモシーンの魅力 @ 慶應大学SFC
Avatar for がむ gam0022
1
260
Automatic Grammar Agreementと Markdown Extended Attributes
について
Avatar for Kishikawa Katsumi kishikawakatsumi
0
140
Graviton と Nitro と私
Avatar for maroon1st maroon1st
0
170
組織で育むオブザーバビリティ
Avatar for ryotaro kobayashi ryota_hnk
0
140
実は歴史的なアップデートだと思う AWS Interconnect - multicloud
Avatar for maroon1st maroon1st
0
350
SourceGeneratorのススメ
Avatar for tkym htkym
0
120

Featured

See All Featured
What’s in a name? Adding method to the madness
Avatar for The Alliance productmarketing
PRO
24
3.9k
The agentic SEO stack - context over prompts
Avatar for schlessera schlessera
0
600
Git: the NoSQL Database
Avatar for Brandon Keepers bkeepers
PRO
432
66k
10 Git Anti Patterns You Should be Aware of
Avatar for Lemi Orhan Ergin lemiorhan
PRO
659
61k
Visualizing Your Data: Incorporating Mongo into Loggly Infrastructure
Avatar for mongodb mongodb
49
9.8k
Hiding What from Whom? A Critical Review of the History of Programming languages for Music
Avatar for Tomoya Matsuura tomoyanonymous
2
380
The World Runs on Bad Software
Avatar for Brandon Keepers bkeepers
PRO
72
12k
Testing 201, or: Great Expectations
Avatar for Joseph Mastey jmmastey
46
7.9k
Design and Strategy: How to Deal with People Who Don’t "Get" Design
Avatar for Morgane Peng morganepeng
133
19k
Crafting Experiences
Avatar for Bethany Jepchumba bethany
1
34
Scaling GitHub
Avatar for Zach Holman holman
464
140k
Easily Structure & Communicate Ideas using Wireframe
Avatar for Afnizar Nur Ghifari afnizarnur
194
17k

Transcript

  1. Reflections from my #Project52 Aldo Ziflaj // @aziflaj OSCAL 2016

  2. None

  3. Project52 /prodʒɛkt fɪfti tuː/ an initiative to make one project

    every week, for 52 weeks (one year)
  4. None

  5. To get better

  6. So I began

  7. None
  8. None
  9. None

  10. 24 weeks later, I have 14 projects

  11. 24 weeks later, I have 14 projects What happened?

  12. Reason #1 Studentness

  13. None
  14. None

  15. Reason #2 Project Ideas

  16. None

  17. Reason #3 Secret Side Projects

  18. Reflections

  19. Studentness? Can’t help with that...

  20. Studentness? Can’t help with that... Ideas? Follow workshops, online tutorials,

    read books

  21. Studentness? Can’t help with that... Ideas? Follow workshops, online tutorials,

    read books Side projects? Make them part of Project52

  22. Issue #1 Too many technologies

  23. Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better

    than master of one - found in Wikipedia
  24. None

  25. Issue #2 Not building usable things

  26. None

  27. Code Katas

  28. Project52 allows me to: learn new technologies Code Katas

  29. Project52 allows me to: learn new technologies make small projects

    Code Katas

  30. Project52 allows me to: learn new technologies make small projects

    share the results Code Katas

  31. Shhhhhhh*t! Did I finish this presentation?