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title: 30/04/2016
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date: 2016-04-30
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#### DD/MM/YYYY -- a monthly check-in
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A lot has happened this month. From NodeMC v5 and v6 to
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a new website redesign to a plethora of new project ideas, May is going
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to be a much busier month, so I think I should check-in.
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NodeMC, one of my most beloved projects thus far, has been going far
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better than I could have ever imagined, with more than 30 unique cloners
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in the past 30 days and about 300 unique visitors, those have far
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outpaced my other projects. And to top it, off, 13 lovely stars. Version
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1.5.0 (aka v5) [recently launched with plugin
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support](https://nodemc.space/blog/3), and has been a monumental release for me in terms of
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what it has taught me and what the contributors and I have achieved. A
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big hats-off to [md678685](https://twitter.com/md678685) for helping with the plugin system and other fixes
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within in the release. NodeMC v6, however, is going to be even bigger.
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[Jared Allard](https://jaredallard.me/) of nexe fame (among other projects) has taken
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interest in the project and has rewritten the bulk of it using ES6
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standards, which both md678685 and I have been learning, and has
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recently decided to rewrite the stock dashboard using the React
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framework. I could not be happier working with him on v6.
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On a smaller note, [my personal website](http://gabrielsimmer.com)
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has had a bit of a facelift. I decided to do so after months of using a
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free HTML5 template that really did not offer a whole lot of room to
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customize. My new site allows me to add pretty much an unlimited number
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of projects and other information as I see fit. It's built using my
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favorite CSS framework [Skeleton](http://getskeleton.com/),
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which I will forever see as superior to Bootstrap, despite not being
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updated in more than a year (I may have some free time to fork it), and
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using a nice font called [Elusive Icons](http://elusiveicons.com/) for
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the small icons. I'm throwing the source up on GitHub as I type this
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post ([it's up!](https://github.com/gmemstr/GabrielSimmer.com)).
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I have a lot of projects in my head. Too many to count or even write
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down. It's going to be a crazy few months as some of my more long-term
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projects (some of them mine, others I'm just working on) are realized
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and launched. I really don't want to say much, but I know that several
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online communities, namely the Minecraft and GitHub communities, will be
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very excited when I am able to talk more freely on what I have coming
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up.
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_*Okay, maybe I'll tease one thing -- I recently bought the YourCI.space domain, which I am not just partking!*_
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Just a quick heads up as well, everyone should go check out [Software Engineering Daily](http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/). I am going to be on the show later next month, but I recommend you subscribe to that wonderful podcast regardless. I will be sure to link the specific episode when it comes out over on [my Twitter](https://twitter.com/gmemstr)
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> "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like
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> sunbeams and you will always look lovely." -- Roald Dahl
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