Forem: Swapnil Agarwal

Let's read No Hard Feelings together!

Swapnil Agarwal — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:43:43 +0000

I run a book club for developers, where we select a book to read together and discuss it in a Telegram group.

So far, we have read Clean Code (Jan), The Pragmatic Programmer (Feb), Don't Make Me Think! (Mar), Elon Musk (Apr), and Head First Design Patterns (May). June's pick is No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work. It's a pretty recent book (2019) and has been recommended a lot.

We'll have weekly sessions where we read the book together (2 chapters every week) on a Zoom call. Join us and become a better developer in 2020!

👉 Link to join Telegram group 👈
👉 Previous Picks 👈

Hacktoberfest 2019 — Time to Start your Open-Source Journey!

Swapnil Agarwal — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:21:07 +0000

What is Hacktoberfest, anyway?

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open-source software. It was started by Digital Ocean in 2014. People from all over the world contributed to make it a huge success. It is now a regular event in October every year.

Why should I participate?

If you are on the edge, and need some motivation / push to start contributing to open-source, this is the perfect opportunity for you. There are loads of cool swag up for grabs!

Swag, you say?

Yes! It varies from organization to organization. The most popular one is of Digital Ocean where you get a cool T-shirt on submitting 4 Pull Requests. You can check out http://devswag.io/hacktoberfest to keep tabs on all of the opportunities.

That’s awesome! I’m sold. How do I participate?

Register at https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/. You can check your status anytime at https://hacktoberfestchecker.herokuapp.com/.

Can you walk me through everything step-by-step?

Here’s an informative, beginner-friendly and FUN video on how to get started on your open-source journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxy4WNdc0s

Do you have any collaboration opportunities?

Lots of them (glad you asked):

https://github.com/swapagarwal/JARVIS-on-Messenger/issues/559
https://github.com/swapagarwal/swag-for-dev/labels/good%20first%20issue
Submit geeky translations of English words at https://github.com/swapagarwal/geeksay
Submit introductory explanations to technical concepts at https://github.com/swapagarwal/awesome-eli5 5.Submit inspiring content at https://github.com/swapagarwal/awesome-inspiration Let the Hacking Begin!

I’m aiming for merging 100+ PRs during this month, so if you’re new to open-source, it’s a good time to step up!

📚 Read all Medium posts for free

Swapnil Agarwal — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:43:24 +0000

My current situation is this: I'm subscribed to a lot of newsletters that curate content in the tech domain and almost all of them are behind a paywall!

I want to get out of the Medium ecosystem, but I can't. Not everyone can be expected to pull off the FreeCodeCamp move (leaving Medium to their own publishing platform).
To make matters worse, Medium now puts all new stories behind paywall by default! And you know how we process defaults - we just leave them be.

I'm guilty of opening the posts in incognito mode to read them. To be honest, I started doing that subconsciously. Then I came across this tweet from Medium's CEO: https://twitter.com/ev/status/1100899021621583872

Excited, I opened Chrome after a long time. I'm used to developing extensions in Chrome (dates back to college days) and then port to Firefox.

The extension works in the background, w/o any user intervention, for all posts. It lets you read all Medium stories for free.

Check it out on Product Hunt -> 💯

🤗 Hugs / 🐛 bugs welcome!

💬 devSwag #7 - Loads of stickers + Telegram Access

Swapnil Agarwal — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 05:01:52 +0000

Hello dev.to! 👋

Here are some new swag opportunities found in the wild:

Gatsby - Get a pull request merged into Gatsby and receive a free shirt, socks, or stickers.
Kong - Everyone who gets 1 PR accepted to a Kong repo can get a Kong Contributor T-shirt!
Some unverified low-hanging opportunities are listed below:

You’re invited to join our telegram community (https://t.me/devswag) to get quicker notifications about new swag opportunities. It’s a place meant to share your swag experiences, talk about new features, discuss about the quality of swag, etc.

To get these updates in your inbox, subscribe to our newsletter: https://upscri.be/67d2fa

You can find the complete list on our website: https://devswag.io/

🌧️ devSwag #6 — #Swagtoberfest is in Full Swing

Swapnil Agarwal — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:35:05 +0000

Swag is in the Air

We just crossed 3000 stars on GitHub and have been Featured on Changelog Weekly. Thank you everyone for your kind support! 🙏

It’s raining swag!
Here are SIX new swag opportunities:

Auth0

Have one accepted pull request in a qualifying Auth0 Github project in October 2018 and receive a kickass 2018 Hacktoberfest t-shirt courtesy of the awesome Auth0 team, along with a psychedelic Auth0 sticker pack!

OpenEBS

Have one accepted pull request in an OpenEBS repository during October 2018 to earn an OpenEBS t-shirt and stickers. The best PR will also receive a laptop.

Twilio

Complete the first set of objectives in Twilio Quest and get a Twilio Quest t-shirt right to your door.

SendGrid

Five accepted pull results from SendGrid will qualify you for a special edition SendGrid Hacktoberfest T-shirt.

Hasura

Submit a PR to Hasura’s GraphQL Engine repo in October 2018 and get a Hasura sticker pack. If your PR to an issue tagged as ‘hacktoberfest’ gets merged, you also get a Hasura t-shirt!

Nexmo

Make one pull request in October 2018 to any Nexmo Repository, earn a limited edition #nextoberfest T-shirt!

You can keep tabs on all of the #hacktoberfest swag opportunities at our new dedicated URL: devswag.io/hacktoberfest
You can also filter items based on tags (like accessories, clothing, device, stickers, etc.)!

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You can find the complete list on GitHub: https://github.com/swapagarwal/swag-for-dev

Participating in #Hacktoberfest? devSwag helps you keep an eye on everything that's on the table!

Swapnil Agarwal — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:01:35 +0000

It's that time of the year again... Hacktoberfest is back for the 5th year!

As a developer, nothing piques my interest more than developer swag! I made devSwag to scratch my own itch by starting a simple list on a GitHub repository (swag-for-dev). I’m excited to share devSwag, THE place to get notified about any new swag opportunities for developers. This would be quite useful this month as Hacktoberfest comes back for the 5th year.

TL;DR Are you participating in #Hacktoberfest? If yes, this might be of interest to you: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/devswag-2
If you have any questions or ideas, let me know.

geeksay - Translate layman text 👶 to its geeky version 🤓!

Swapnil Agarwal — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:35:25 +0000

"geeks will ctrl+s the world"
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1"
"sometimes, i just need a <br>"

You know how sometimes you find these really geeky quotes and wish the world had more of them? Yeah, geeksay fixes that. Try it out at http://geeksay.xyz

Contributions are welcome at https://github.com/swapagarwal/geeksay! 😇

🐬 Swag for Dev #4 — DigitalOcean’s Sammy stickers!

Swapnil Agarwal — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 22:43:04 +0000

As a developer, nothing piques my interest more than developer swag! Continuing my attempt to list down the current swag opportunities for developers, here’s the latest update:

Currents is back! Take DigitalOcean’s survey on Open Source and get free Sammy stickers! do.co/currents-survey

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You can find the complete list on GitHub: https://github.com/swapagarwal/swag-for-dev

Tech “explained” Like you’re Five!

Swapnil Agarwal — Sun, 20 May 2018 23:06:27 +0000

Going through my Product Hunt feed, I came across a comic that explained how HTTPS works!
Inspired by Brad Hodson's comment:

Great for non-tech people, appeals to kids if they need to learn about HTTPS. Something like this should exist for a lot of topics!

I went ahead and created https://git.io/eli5 to curate similar resources. Contributions are very welcome!! :D