As I am still waiting for reviews on my PWA’s PR, I decided to take on an issue in an area that I have never touched. After looking at the list of current issues, I assigned myself to an issue helping to add more packages files to Dependabot config. I…

“it’s not real until it hits Telescope as a blog post about what happened” — professor Dave Those were words from my respectful professor, the one and only Dave, who I admire a lot. He reminded me of why we start the practice of writing blogs. It is not only…

This is the second part of my previous blog on my journey to explore PWA. As some of you might have read the first episode, you have known that my first attempt to implement PWA to Telescope nothing more than a failure in my opinion. If you have not read…

I started my exploration in PWA having some prior knowledge about PWA with NextJS. It is always good to know where you want to start in everything. From my past exposure, I learned about next-pwa , an out of the box package to make a Next project become a PWA…

This week, I was tasked to bring back the dark theme to Telescope. We had the dark theme before and all the functionalities to persist it as a user’s choice but since the UI was incomplete at that time and there were too many pieces required attentions, we decided to…

I finally got the approval from Telescope’s reviewers to start writing unit tests on my service. And it was not as straightforward as I would have thought… My first struggle came from planning for my tests. I did not know how to start as my service includes a chain of…

I have used the past week to improve my service and get it closer to be approved by the Chief. I have been able to spend a little more time coding for Telescope this week compared to last few weeks. …

Understanding microservices is a thing, actually developing one is another thing… I don’t know how I should describe my feeling when I started working on the Auto Feed Discovery service which is part of Telescope’s microservices initiative. A bit excited, a bit nervous and maybe a bit confused. Despite having gone through two Udemy’s courses (20 hour long/each) on microservices, I…

This is a late blog but it is due so here I am… Thanks to Pedro’s initiative, we have got it started on implementing the UI 2.0 which is supposed to be transforming the whole Telescope’s user experience with the new UI. And I am happy to play some part of it. My first task is to find a good way to adjust…