<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*z28zKkgVO13edRQy-2LPOw.png"></figure><h3>Summary</h3>
I uploaded the photos of my face of 52 days when I was travelling in Southeast Asia for two months as an experiment.
<a href="https://opensea.io/collection/taishi-face-transition-in-southeast-asia">The transition of my face when I travelled in Southeast Asia — Collection | OpenSea</a>
<h3>Story</h3>
Since 2021 (I guess), it seems everyone on Twitter is talking about Web 3.0.
<ul>
<li>DeFi</li>
<li>DAO</li>
<li>NFT</li>
<li>Blockchain</li>
<li>Cryptocurrency</li>
</ul>
I don’t understand most of them, especially NFT, DAO and DeFi.
I have read articles about them and it turned out just reading articles wasn’t enough to understand how things work.
If you’d like to understand something, then you need to join the game and output something, not only input.
And I found this article about a guy, <a href="https://twitter.com/Ghozali_Ghozalu">Sultan Gustaf Al Ghozali</a>, who put the photos of himself and became a millionaire.
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/indonesian-college-student-becomes-millionaire-185120727.html">Indonesian college student becomes millionaire after putting his selfies up for sale as NFTs as a joke</a>
OK, Just a photo of the face can be an NFT. I can’t say I have enough skill to make art, but I definitely am able to take photos of myself, so I can join the NFT game (hype 🤷‍♂️?) and learn something.
Fortunately, I took photos of myself almost everyday when I was travelling in Southeast Asia in 2019 (just before Covid 😱).
<a href="https://medium.com/@TaishiKato/i-am-doing-digital-nomad-life-for-2-months-in-southeast-asia-ca7d187e92f7">I am doing DIGITAL NOMAD life for 2 months in Southeast Asia🇹🇭🇱🇦🇻🇳👨‍💻👩‍💻</a>
I decided to upload them as NFTs on Opensea.
This is my very first NFT collection 🥳
<a href="https://opensea.io/collection/taishi-face-transition-in-southeast-asia">The transition of my face when I travelled in Southeast Asia — Collection | OpenSea</a>
Hope I can learn something from them ✍️
<h4>P.S</h4>
As an indie hacker (who is working on a personal project to make a profit from it), I logged about this NFT project on <a href="https://wip.co/products/southeastfacenft">WIP</a>, <a href="https://getmakerlog.com/products/southeast-asia-face-transition-nft">Makerlog</a> and <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/product/transition-face-in-southeast-asia-nft">Indie Hackers</a> too!
<h3>Follow my account 👍</h3>
<a href="https://twitter.com/taishik_">JavaScript is not available.</a>
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My first NFT collection on Opensea

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Hi, <a href="https://taishikato.com/">Taishi</a> here 👋
How do you manage global data on React? I used to use Redux for that, however, I currently use Context API for that purpose and I don’t even install redux and redux-related packages!
<h3>2 ways to implement it with Context API</h3>
I think there are 2 ways to make it happen. A simple and complicated one.
I am gonna explain the simple one first ☝️
Imagine we want to manage the logged-in user data.
<h3>1. Use state variable</h3>
<h4>Add userContext.js</h4>
Let’s make ./src/context/userContext.js.
<pre>// File: ./src/context/userContext.js import React, { useState, useEffect, createContext, useContext } from 'react'; import firebase from '../firebase/clientApp'; export const UserContext = createContext(); export default function UserContextComp({ children }) { const [user, setUser] = useState(null); const [loadingUser, setLoadingUser] = useState(true); // Helpful, to update the UI accordingly. useEffect(() =&gt; { // Listen authenticated user const unsubscriber = firebase.auth().onAuthStateChanged(async (user) =&gt; { try { if (user) { // User is signed in. const { uid, displayName, email, photoURL } = user; // You could also look for the user doc in your Firestore (if you have one): // const userDoc = await firebase.firestore().doc(`users/${uid}`).get() setUser({ uid, displayName, email, photoURL }); } else setUser(null); } catch (error) { // Most probably a connection error. Handle appropriately. } finally { setLoadingUser(false); } }); // Unsubscribe auth listener on unmount return () =&gt; unsubscriber(); }, []); return ( &lt;UserContext.Provider value={{ user, setUser, loadingUser }}&gt; {children} &lt;/UserContext.Provider&gt; ); } // Custom hook that shorhands the context! export const useUser = () =&gt; useContext(UserContext);</pre>
As you can see, UserContextComp component has user state variable.
<pre>const [user, setUser] = useState(null);</pre>
We store the user data in this user variable and update it with setUser() function.
<h4>Edit index.js</h4>
Now we have to use the UserContextComp component to consume it! Edit ./src/index.js like below.
<pre>// File: ./src/index.js import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'; import './index.css'; import App from './App'; import * as serviceWorker from './serviceWorker'; import UserProvider from './context/userContext';</pre>
<pre>ReactDOM.render( &lt;React.StrictMode&gt; &lt;UserProvider&gt; &lt;App /&gt; &lt;/UserProvider&gt; &lt;/React.StrictMode&gt;, document.getElementById('root'), );</pre>
<pre>// If you want your app to work offline and load faster, you can change // unregister() to register() below. Note this comes with some pitfalls. // Learn more about service workers: https://bit.ly/CRA-PWA serviceWorker.unregister();</pre>
Now we can use user variable and update it with setuser() function everywhere ✌️
<h4>How to consume it</h4>
Import the useUser function from the ./src/context/userContext.js and get the variable you need. In this case, we take loadingUser, user, and setUser.
<pre>import React from 'react'; import { useUser } from '../context/userContext';</pre>
<pre>const MyComponent = () =&gt; { const { loadingUser, user, setUser } = useUser();</pre>
<pre> return ( &lt;&gt; {loadingUser ? ( &lt;div&gt;loading…&lt;/div&gt; ) : ( &lt;div&gt;Welcome, {user.displayName}&lt;/div&gt; )} &lt;/&gt; ); };</pre>
<pre>export default MyComponent;</pre>
Please just use setUser if you need to update the user data just like when you update the usual state variable.
<h3>2. Use dispatch and reducer (more Redux way)</h3>
In this way, we use useContext with <a href="https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#usereducer">useReducer</a> hook.
I feel like this way is Redux without Redux 🤤 Sure, Redux uses Context API inside itself.
By the way. I made an example app here. Please take a look at this if you wanna make it happen on your local environment.
<a href="https://github.com/taishikato/context-api-with-useReducer">taishikato/context-api-with-useReducer</a>
Anyway, let’s dive into it!
<h4>Add ./src/context/reducer.js</h4>
If you are familiar with Redux, you can understand this with ease.
Now we are gonna define the reducer function and initialState. The default value of user is null.
<pre>// File: ./src/context/reducer.js export const initialState = { user: null, };</pre>
<pre>export const actionTypes = { SET_USER: 'SET_USER', };</pre>
<pre>const reducer = (state, action) =&gt; { switch (action.type) { case actionTypes.SET_USER: return { ...state, user: action.user, }; default: return state; } };</pre>
<pre>export default reducer;</pre>
<h4>Make ./src/context/StateProvider.js</h4>
<pre>// File: ./src/context/StateProvider.js` import React, { createContext, useContext, useReducer } from 'react'; export const StateContext = createContext([]); export const StateProvider = ({ reducer, initialState, children }) =&gt; ( &lt;StateContext.Provider value={useReducer(reducer, initialState)}&gt; {children} &lt;/StateContext.Provider&gt; ); export const useStateValue = () =&gt; useContext(StateContext);</pre>
<h4>Set the Provider in ./src/index.js</h4>
Because of this, we can consume the StateContext component everywhere!
<pre>// File: ./src/index.js import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'; import './index.css'; import App from './App'; import * as serviceWorker from './serviceWorker'; + import { StateProvider } from './context/StateProvider'; + import reducer, { initialState } from './context/reducer'; ReactDOM.render( &lt;React.StrictMode&gt; + &lt;StateProvider initialState={initialState} reducer={reducer}&gt; &lt;App /&gt; + &lt;/StateProvider&gt; &lt;/React.StrictMode&gt;, document.getElementById('root'), ); // If you want your app to work offline and load faster, you can change // unregister() to register() below. Note this comes with some pitfalls. // Learn more about service workers: https://bit.ly/CRA-PWA serviceWorker.unregister();</pre>
<h4>Now display the logged in user's name!</h4>
Make a <a href="https://github.com/taishikato/context-api-with-useReducer/blob/master/src/Auth.js">Auth component</a> and use it in App.js like below.
We need login/logout methods (handleLogin, handleLogout) to handle onclick events, so make them as well.
<pre>// File: ./src/App.js import React from 'react';</pre>
<pre>import Auth from './Auth'; import { auth, provider } from './firebase'; import { useStateValue } from './context/StateProvider'; import { actionTypes } from './context/reducer'; import './App.css';</pre>
<pre>function App() { const [state, dispatch] = useStateValue();</pre>
<pre> const handleLogin = async () =&gt; { try { const result = await auth.signInWithPopup(provider); dispatch({ type: actionTypes.SET_USER, user: result.user, }); } catch (err) { alert(err.message); } };</pre>
<pre> const handleLogout = async () =&gt; { await auth.signOut(); dispatch({ type: actionTypes.SET_USER, user: null, }); };</pre>
<pre> return ( &lt;Auth&gt; &lt;div className="App"&gt; &lt;header className="App-header"&gt; &lt;div&gt;{state.user?.displayName}&lt;/div&gt; {state.user ? ( &lt;button onClick={handleLogout}&gt;Logout&lt;/button&gt; ) : ( &lt;button onClick={handleLogin}&gt;Login&lt;/button&gt; )} &lt;/header&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/Auth&gt; ); }</pre>
<pre>export default App;</pre>
As <a href="https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#usereducer">the reference</a> says, useReducer returns state and dispatch.
<blockquote>An alternative to useState. Accepts a reducer of type (state, action) =&gt; newState, and returns the current state paired with a dispatch method. (If you’re familiar with Redux, you already know how this works.)</blockquote>
That’s why we can get variables like this.
useStateValue() returns useContext(StateContext), and this returns useReducer(reducer, initialState).
<pre>const [state, dispatch] = useStateValue();</pre>
Now you see like this and you can login/logout.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/554/1*WB7B7QmZnajEc9YFzmxa9w.png"></figure>If you logged in successfully, you can see your name as below.
When the value of state.user is set, your name will be shown.
<pre>&lt;div&gt;{state.user?.displayName}&lt;/div&gt;</pre>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/401/1*q0UXlm7xHxQ9JhG9NOfK-Q.png"></figure><h3>Note</h3>
I think 2. Use dispatch and reducer (more Redux way) may look complicated to you, but we can easily understand what kind of data this app manages globally in <a href="https://github.com/taishikato/context-api-with-useReducer/blob/master/src/context/reducer.js#L1-L3">initialState</a>. In this example, we manage only user variable globally, but imagine if we manage like 10 variables 😅
Hope this helps.
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How to manage global data with Context API, without Redux on React

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*XHh0FqJ0Um6XFac7HWUnXQ.jpeg"></figure><a href="https://twitter.com/ProductHance">Taishi</a> here👋
Today I am going to write about how to implement Dark Mode with Tailwind CSS.\ Dark Mode is now one of the important features for usability and you should implement this on your website if you have not done yet.
Don’t worry. It’s quite easy!
<blockquote>
BTW, the complete example on GitHub is <a href="https://github.com/taishikato/Dark-Mode-with-Tailwind-CSS">here</a> ✌️
</blockquote>
<h3>Create your React app with CRA CLI</h3>
<pre>$ npx create-react-app dark</pre>
Let's host it on <a href="http://local:3000/">http://local:3000</a>
<pre>$ cd dark $ npm run start</pre>
Now I believe you see this page on your http://localhost:3000 🎉
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*IuBy8pkLn31C4vwb2ipJbw.png"></figure>This time we don’t need ./src/App.css, so delete the file and make ./src/App.js simpler like below😸
<pre>import React from 'react'; function App() { return ( &lt;div className="App"&gt; &lt;header className="App-header"&gt; &lt;p&gt; Edit &lt;code&gt;src/App.js&lt;/code&gt; and save to reload. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a className="App-link" href="https://reactjs.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" &gt; Learn React &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/header&gt; &lt;/div&gt; ); } export default App;</pre>
Now the website looks much simpler.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/740/1*2TqYamTr94N_n4bpV7vs_w.png"><figcaption>Just texts with white background-color</figcaption></figure><h3>Add Tailwind CSS</h3>
<h4>Let’s add packages for Tailwind CSS</h4>
<pre>$ npm i tailwindcss autoprefixer postcss-cli --save-dev</pre>
<h4>Generate a config file of Tailwind CSS.</h4>
The command below creates ./tailwind.config.js.
<pre>$ npx tailwindcss init</pre>
<h4>Add postcss.config.js</h4>
The content looks like this.
<pre>module.exports = { plugins: [ require('tailwindcss'), require('autoprefixer'), ], };</pre>
<h4>Make a Stylesheet file.</h4>
Let’s add a ./src/tailwind.src.css like below.
<pre>@tailwind base;</pre>
<pre>@tailwind components;</pre>
<pre>@tailwind utilities;</pre>
<h4>Add a script to generate a CSS file</h4>
tailwind:css on package.json builds a CSS file as ./src/tailwind.css you actually use in your React app.
<pre>"scripts": { + "tailwind:css": "tailwind build src/tailwind.src.css -c tailwind.config.js -o src/tailwind.css", "start": "react-scripts start", "build": "react-scripts build", . . .</pre>
Let start and build use tailwind:css.
<pre>"scripts": { - "start": "react-scripts start", - "build": "react-scripts build", + "tailwind:css": "tailwind build src/tailwind.src.css -c tailwind.config.js -o src/tailwind.css", + "start": "npm run tailwind:css &amp;&amp; react-scripts start", + "build": "npm run tailwind:css &amp;&amp; react-scripts build",</pre>
Every time you use the start or build script, it generates a CSS file for you👍
<h4>Let’s import tailwind.css in App.js</h4>
<pre>import React from 'react'; + import ./'tailwind.css'; function App() { return (</pre>
All set! Now your app uses Tailwind CSS 🌬️
<h4>Use Tailwind CSS to align your text</h4>
Just try to use a class text-center from Tailwind CSS. Now our App.js looks like below.
<pre>import React from 'react'; import './tailwind.css';</pre>
<pre>function App() { return ( &lt;div className="App"&gt; &lt;header className="App-header text-center"&gt; &lt;p&gt; Edit &lt;code&gt;src/App.js&lt;/code&gt; and save to reload. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a className="App-link" href="https://reactjs.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" &gt; Learn React &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/header&gt; &lt;/div&gt; ); }</pre>
<pre>export default App;</pre>
Your web page looks like below.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*vFR6mfm_PQmIfWXtyFnwXA.png"><figcaption>text centered</figcaption></figure><h3>Customize Tailwind CSS for Dark mode</h3>
We want to use dark: like this. In this example, when the value of <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme">prefers-color-scheme</a> is dark, bg-black becomes valid.
<pre>&lt;div className="dark:bg-black"&gt;</pre>
First, we need to customize tailwind.config.js to make it happen😎
<h4>Customize screens property</h4>
Your current tailwind.config.js should look like this.
<pre>module.exports = { future: { // removeDeprecatedGapUtilities: true, // purgeLayersByDefault: true, }, purge: [], theme: { extend: {}, }, variants: {}, plugins: [], }</pre>
Add screens property under extend.
<pre>module.exports = { future: { removeDeprecatedGapUtilities: true, purgeLayersByDefault: true, }, purge: ['./src/App.js'], theme: { extend: { screens: { dark: { raw: '(prefers-color-scheme: dark)' }, }, }, }, variants: {}, plugins: [], }</pre>
What’s gonna happen!?
According to the Tailwind CSS document — <a href="https://tailwindcss.com/docs/breakpoints#custom-media-queries">Custom media queries</a>, we can make our own screen, which means tailwindcss command generates CSS like this:
<pre>@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { .dark\:container { width: 100%; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .dark\:container { max-width: 640px; } } . .</pre>
Let's execute npm run start again to generate a new tailwind.css and check the file 👀
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/477/1*J6VJPdZ-8lpCGkM-zG4e2w.png"></figure>It’s working!
<h3>Dark Mode</h3>
Let’s make your app dark mode available 😈
Just add dark:bg-black dark:text-white on App.js.
<pre>import React from 'react'; import './tailwind.css'; function App() { return ( &lt;div className="App dark:bg-black dark:text-white"&gt; &lt;header className="App-header text-center"&gt; &lt;p&gt; Edit &lt;code&gt;src/App.js&lt;/code&gt; and save to reload. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a className="App-link" href="https://reactjs.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" &gt; Learn React &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/header&gt; &lt;/div&gt; ); } export default App;</pre>
Now it has Dark Mode 👽
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/580/1*7h3qjHdKTnjT4iCMgzGuKg.gif"></figure>Thank you for reading!
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【Step by Step】How to implement Dark Mode with Tailwind CSS on React

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*s2MXTKr_KUHTfwUkX-DLpA.png"></figure>What do you do when you are not sure that the object variable has the specific property?
My recent answer is Optional chaining.
<h3>What is Optional chaining?</h3>
<blockquote>The optional chaining operator (?.) permits reading the value of a property located deep within a chain of connected objects without having to expressly validate that each reference in the chain is valid.</blockquote>
<blockquote><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Optional_chaining">Optional chaining (?.) — JavaScript | MDN</a></blockquote>
I just quoted from MDN haha.
It basically makes it easier to access a property within an object.
<h3>How does it make React App development easier?</h3>
Imagine you fetch the user data from Firebase Authentication.
<a href="https://medium.com/media/8d6beaee1f1457161c89cb77e20d8759/href">https://medium.com/media/8d6beaee1f1457161c89cb77e20d8759/href</a>What’s gonna happen?
<pre>TypeError: Cannot read property 'dispayName' of null</pre>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*BR8afqV7CkKqDVCJ5gOi_g.png"></figure>Yes, this is what happens.
<h3>Conventional way</h3>
<h4>Trinomial calculus</h4>
I always used Trinomial calculus before Optional Chaining in this case.
In this pattern, your React app renders &lt;div&gt;Loading…&lt;/div&gt; initially and then show &lt;h1&gt;Welcome, Your Name&lt;/h1&gt; after fetching data from Firebase.
I kinda like this because &lt;h1&gt; doesn’t get rendered until it’s needed to be rendered.
<a href="https://medium.com/media/4905d5b3012ea31c76fcf20988ee9aee/href">https://medium.com/media/4905d5b3012ea31c76fcf20988ee9aee/href</a><h4>Nullish coalescing Operator</h4>
<a href="https://medium.com/media/5a6369bc09a5e4e12589ac8304dbb804/href">https://medium.com/media/5a6369bc09a5e4e12589ac8304dbb804/href</a><h3>Use Optional chaining</h3>
Just adding one ?! Deadly simple, isn’t it!?
<a href="https://medium.com/media/e397e5778fa61be2b1dcf0b9cb7473b3/href">https://medium.com/media/e397e5778fa61be2b1dcf0b9cb7473b3/href</a><h3>Conclusion</h3>
I think most of the time Optional chaining is very handy and speeds up your development.
Count on Trinomial calculus when you need to show other elements while the object or property is not valid.
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How does Optional Chaining make React App development easier?

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*o4wr4gbJ0l2m-a51Te7XRw.png"></figure>Hi, Taishi here. How have you been?
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to launch a startup in Vancouver.
And the idea I am thinking of is the “virtual co-working space” concept.
I am validating this idea with a platform called Pragli as an MVP.
Because of COVID-19, I feel there are so many chat platforms are coming to the market.
This is some example.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://pragli.com/">Pragli</a></li>
<li><a href="https://teemyco.com/">Teemyco</a></li>
<li><a href="https://remotehour.com/">Remotehour</a></li>
<li><a href="https://spatial.chat/">SpatialChat</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.airmeet.com/">Airmeet</a></li>
<li><a href="https://remo.co/">Remo</a></li>
</ul>
All of these look so fun and interesting!
<h3>I wanna build an online community tool</h3>
I love making a place you can belong to online such as a social network service.
I think Pragli is very good, it’s a great tool for work just like Slack, but with game-like avatars to show off the users and create a more community feel.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*o4wr4gbJ0l2m-a51Te7XRw.png"></figure><h3>Pragli is progressive</h3>
On the other hand, as you can see when you use it, it’s quite quirky. For example, when you enter a room, the microphone automatically turns to sound. Why, in my case, I had to go to the trouble of manually setting it to Mute every time. I think most people are still resistant to having their sound leaking out to the other person all the time or something like that. Even in a real coworking space, just because you walk into a certain room doesn’t mean you’re always going to talk to the people in there.
Pragli is pretty unique.
<h3>It’s a challenge to get users to keep the app open at all times as you can imagine…</h3>
I keep the Pragli desktop app open all the time.
That’s how I’ve noticed that the app is pretty heavy. That makes my PC run slow. I wish it was as light as Discord or Telegram.
<h3>I had a fun experience with the virtual co-working space</h3>
On the other hand, it was a lot of fun to video chat with people I barely know.
Coworking space is a space where you see people every day but you’ve never talked to them before, so I think it was fun to realize that at Pragli this time as well.
I had a late-night video chat with them. It was fun.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*aGPPE0Ol4MnxKFzlZqf_sw.png"></figure>Some people said that just displaying the avatars of people online gave them a sense of security, like a sense of security that people were there, and they liked that kind of loose atmosphere.
I agree with that.
I came up with the idea of a virtual co-working space in the first place because I was always working from home and I was lonely, lol.
Even if you don’t talk to each other, just knowing that someone else is there can be comforting and inspire you to do your best.
That’s what I felt strongly in this Pragli experiment.
<h3>One more week for the experiment</h3>
Here is the invitation link for our Pragli!
<a href="https://pragli.com/team/virtual-coworking-space/-MHPW5oMkut4w2p8qLN4">https://pragli.com/team/virtual-coworking-space/-MHPW5oMkut4w2p8qLN4</a>
Please feel free to talk to me when you join it👨‍🎤
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Experimenting a virtual co-working concept on Pragli

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*vE63P9KOAzL1aY7CrjE51w.png"></figure>Oh…I am so sleepy…because I launched AskMakers 2.0 on Product Hunt and I have been monitoring it almost without sleeping😪
The first version of it was launched about 10 months ago. I worked so hard on it and it got over 100 upvotes within 24 hours for the first time🤩
To make an app useful, I sent emails to ask successful makers to join AskMakers. I am nobody, just a software developer from Tokyo (currently in Vancouver), however, some of them signed up on and support it!! Unbelievable🤯
Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin">Justin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/1HaKr">Hari</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hyper_yolo">Amie</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanbull">Jonathan</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/jtatsubana">Jaime</a>😆
After that, it took 10 months until the launch of 2.0… I always thought like I need to add more features to launch, and I felt like I can never launch it…I should not try to be perfect.
This post pushed my back very hard.
<a href="https://medium.com/@kitze/the-saddest-just-ship-it-story-ever-b82707e37735">The saddest “Just Ship It” story ever</a>
Eventually, I decide to launch AskMakers 2.0!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-align="center" data-dnt="true"> — <a href="https://twitter.com/askmakers_app/status/1285379968344571905">@askmakers_app</a></blockquote>
BTW, it’s live on Product Hunt. Please check it <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/askmakers-2-0">AskMakers 2.0 — Ask experienced makers questions💡</a>
<h3>🛠 New stack</h3>
I know most users don’t care what kind of technology the product use but…yeah, I just did. ・Next.js for SSR ・Totally new design with Tailwind CSS I used to use Nuxt.js and Bulma for AskMakers, but I wanted to make SSR and use React, so I chose Next.js.
<h3>🎨 Renewed UI</h3>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Hw8Etp7u6EpOhTj6iCcg5g.png"></figure>I have worked so hard to make it better for users to browse AskMakers. I am not a designer so I did research, learned, and applied my new knowledge to AskMakers.
<h3>👨‍🎤 New featured makers</h3>
<a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanbull">Jonathan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jtatsubana">Jaime</a> joined AskMakers 2.0. Thank you!
<h3>🔍 Search questions</h3>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/714/1*k6971X3OcPrpDRR6GC4GSA.gif"></figure><h3>🚀 Categories</h3>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/772/1*gL1BV4gN2H1qWZivGoophg.png"></figure>When I sent an email to <a href="https://medium.com/u/8617dea13724">Danielle Johnson</a> about AskMakers, she told me the categories and search functionality are absolutely necessary for AskMakers. I agree! What kind of web applications like this doesn’t have these functionalities? I wrote a code and implemented it ASAP. Thank you for the kind feedback Danielle😊
<h3>💬 Comment on the answer</h3>
The discussion is very important, therefore I added the commenting feature!
<h3>📧 Email notifications</h3>
You receive an email notification when you receive an answer, an upvote on your answer, your answer gets bookmarked, or someone comments on your answer. You can turn off the notifications on your setting page👌
<h3>🔮 More to come</h3>
I am very excited about the future!! I talked with my friend <a href="https://dev.to/shyamady">@shyamady</a> and I think I got a very promising idea for the v3.0. Can’t wait to show you!
Stay tuned👨🏻‍🎤
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【Finally…】Announcing the Official Launch of AskMakers v2.0

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*9UzbgJ4lJ4jNBoo0SkGFVA.png"></figure><h3>Make your npm package conformable to TypeScript</h3>
So last time we made an NPM package with JavaScript.
<a href="https://medium.com/@TaishiKato/how-i-published-my-first-npm-package-5388564bf643">How I published my first npm package</a>
Yes. It’s great! We made it!
BUT, there is one problem. We can not use it with TypeScript projects out of the box because there is no type definition file and TS project can’t know any types of this NPM package.
This time we will make a TypeScript file and generate a type definition file.
<h3>Change your index.js file to index.ts</h3>
Just change the extension of the file and update the source code.
JavaScript
<a href="https://medium.com/media/3d3d91a125efcc61c1336b766d4024d6/href">https://medium.com/media/3d3d91a125efcc61c1336b766d4024d6/href</a>TypeScript
<a href="https://medium.com/media/c2810fc9250edc76b13781e824304a51/href">https://medium.com/media/c2810fc9250edc76b13781e824304a51/href</a>They are almost the same this time.
<h3>Initialize with tsc command</h3>
Let’s initialize your project with tsc command, which generates tsconfig.json file.
<pre>$ tsc --init message TS6071: Successfully created a tsconfig.json file.</pre>
<h3>Add "declaration": true to your tsconfig.json</h3>
We should do this to generate a tsconfig.json file when we execute yarn build.
Your tsconfig.json looks like below.
<pre>{ "compilerOptions": { "target": "es5", "module": "commonjs", "declaration": true, "strict": true, "esModuleInterop": true }, "exclude": [ "node_modules", "dist" ] }</pre>
<h3>Add "types": "index.d.ts" to your package.json</h3>
By adding this, a type definition file will be generated as index.d.ts.
So your package.json looks like below.
<pre>{ "name": "<a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a>", "version": "2.2.0", "description": "generate slug string", "main": "index.js", "types": "index.d.ts", "repository": "<a href="https://github.com/taishikato/slug-generator">https://github.com/taishikato/slug-generator</a>", "author": "taishikato", "license": "MIT", "private": false, "scripts": { "build": "tsc" }, "dependencies": { "uuid": "^7.0.2" }, "keywords": [ "slug", "npm", "package", "taishikato", "slug generator" ], "devDependencies": { "<a href="http://twitter.com/types/uuid">@types/uuid</a>": "^7.0.2", "typescript": "^3.8.3" } }</pre>
<h3>Add .npmignore</h3>
This file is the key.
npm command usually checks .gitignore file to see which file should be excluded in the package.
You need to add .npmignore when the files which should be excluded are different from .gitignore. In this case, npm command does not check .gitignore, checks only .npmignore.
Your .npmignore looks like below
<pre>.gitignore yarn.lock node_modules index.ts</pre>
That’s it! Easy peasy!
Thank you!!
<h3>taishikato/slug-generator: Slug generator for blog posts or any other user-generated-contents</h3>
<a href="https://github.com/taishikato/slug-generator">taishikato/slug-generator</a>
<h3>Portfolio</h3>
<a href="https://taishikato.com/">Taishi Kato</a>
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Make your npm package for typescript

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*BUQCqF2C1cQIUopenNMbIA.png"></figure>I thought making and publishing an NPM package isn’t easy.
No. It’s so easy! Your package doesn’t have to be very tricky, unique and awesome.
You can publish your favorite utility code and install it on your project with npm or yarn.
All I want to say is…it’s not complicated. We can do it!
<h3>TL;DR</h3>
This time I publish an npm package called <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a> which generates slug string from text such as blog post title.
e.i. The string below is the slug for this article.
<pre>how-i-published-my-first-npm-package-5388564bf643</pre>
<h3>How to publish</h3>
<h4>Create an account</h4>
Let’s make an npm account <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/signup">here</a>.
<h4>Login via CLI</h4>
npm command takes care of you.
<pre>$ npm adduser Username: your-username Password: Email: (this IS public) <a href="mailto:taishi.k0903@gmail.com">y</a>our-email Logged in as your-username on <a href="https://registry.npmjs.org/">https://registry.npmjs.org/</a>.</pre>
Great. Now you are logged in.
Then make a directory for the package.
<pre>$ mkdir slug-generator &amp;&amp; cd $_</pre>
Now you are under the slug-generator directory.
We want to make our package <a href="https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope">scoped package</a> to use the name (slug-generator in this case) that already is taken. Execute yarn init to generate a package.json. You will be asked some questions so please answer them.
<pre>$ yarn init yarn init v1.16.0 warning ../../package.json: No license field question name (slug-generator): <a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a> question version (1.0.0): question description: generate slug string question entry point (index.js): question repository url: <a href="https://github.com/taishikato/slug-generator">https://github.com/taishikato/slug-generator</a> question author: taishikato question license (MIT): question private: false success Saved package.json ✨ Done in 68.06s.</pre>
Then you need to use npm publish — access=public to publish public package.
<pre>$ npm publish --access=public npm notice npm notice 📦 <a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a>@1.0.0 npm notice === Tarball Contents === npm notice 258B package.json npm notice === Tarball Details === npm notice name: <a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a> npm notice version: 1.0.0 npm notice package size: 257 B npm notice unpacked size: 258 B npm notice shasum: bf71ac427082c283c6d2cf600f7d1691ab0b5964 npm notice integrity: sha512-clwDAYf181ObB[...]5pwvhOJbTUAiA== npm notice total files: 1 npm notice + <a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a>@1.0.0</pre>
All done. Too quick? But yes version 1.0.0 of your package is on <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/">npm</a>.
But we still don’t have a README, LICENSE file, and actual code!!!
<h3>Add README!</h3>
Yes, we need a blazing README.
Go to <a href="https://shields.io/">shields.io</a> to generate budgets and show how cool we are.
At first, we generate a budge to display the version of your package on npm.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/904/1*S6n6HWNzeM3Nv0pPd90HLA.png"></figure>Next, we got an error because we don’t have any code yet… but generate it anyway.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*SKn0T1c9_KS9E_KD3KIGDw.png"></figure>Make a README.md file and paste the budgets you made.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*0Ui75GVUwtxrINxUMai7Hg.png"></figure><h3>Let’s add some code.</h3>
Just simple code here.
<a href="https://medium.com/media/4d265b2791708431e74deeeb8647c1f8/href">https://medium.com/media/4d265b2791708431e74deeeb8647c1f8/href</a><h3>License</h3>
Hit this page (Insights→Community) on Github.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*khlPrVoNsvNuBBhojRMqRA.png"></figure>Choose MIT anyway.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*FuEiyljyusbuWPZG4U3_tQ.png"></figure><h3>Version</h3>
By the way, npm uses <a href="https://semver.org/">Semantic Versioning</a>. You don’t need to know the detail of it now but the main rules and concepts are
Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
<ol>
<li>MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,</li>
<li>MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and</li>
<li>PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.</li>
</ol>
We need to change the major version so use the command below.
<pre>$ npm version major v2.0.0</pre>
<h3>Publish!</h3>
<pre>$ npm publish npm notice npm notice 📦 <a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a>@2.0.0 npm notice === Tarball Contents === npm notice 1.1kB LICENSE npm notice 496B index.js npm notice 304B package.json npm notice 901B README.md npm notice === Tarball Details === npm notice name: <a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a> npm notice version: 2.0.0 npm notice package size: 1.7 kB npm notice unpacked size: 2.8 kB npm notice shasum: a43b58c8d1434faaeaf207778619981d5b372bd5 npm notice integrity: sha512-u4jsqO8B7j3PY[...]kfdDVtGHT4+Zw== npm notice total files: 4 npm notice + <a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a>@2.0.0</pre>
<h3>Add some keywords on package.json</h3>
<pre>{ "name": "<a href="http://twitter.com/taishikato/slug-generator">@taishikato/slug-generator</a>", "version": "2.0.0", "description": "generate slug string", "main": "index.js", "repository": "<a href="https://github.com/taishikato/slug-generator">https://github.com/taishikato/slug-generator</a>", "author": "taishikato", "license": "MIT", "private": false, "dependencies": { "uuid": "^7.0.2" }, "keywords": [ "slug", "npm", "package", "taishikato", "slug generator" ] }</pre>
<h3>Thank you!</h3>
Now you can ship your code on npm! You can do it for your future projects. You can do it for the developers’ community.
It’s great for any reason. What are you waiting for?
Let’s make a package.json and output something in this world!
<h3>Reference</h3>
Thank you <a href="https://medium.com/u/408ab844d456">Jonathan Wood</a> for the great article!
<a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-a-beautiful-tiny-npm-package-and-publish-it-2881d4307f78/">How to make a beautiful, tiny npm package and publish it</a>
<h3>🖊️taishikato/slug-generator🖋️</h3>
<a href="https://github.com/taishikato/slug-generator">taishikato/slug-generator</a>
<h3>On Linkedin</h3>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-published-my-first-npm-package-taishi-kato/">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-published-my-first-npm-package-taishi-kato/</a>
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How I published my first npm package

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*s0DKzhWttbokEIgiBOCWow.png"><figcaption>My products</figcaption></figure>I have been making products every month since May, so I review what I have made this time.
<h3>🌸May 2019, SPA LIST</h3>
<a href="https://spalist.site/">SPA LIST | Great Single Applications are here</a>
Just after moving to Vancouver from Tokyo, I read about <a href="https://www.andreyazimov.com/">Andrey</a> and found out that there is a word called Indie Maker. So I started to think of myself as an Indie Maker and make products.
The situation around me has been just changed (from Tokyo to Vancouver (big change!)) so just want to make a product that is easy to make for the first time. So I made it. That is SPA LIST. As it is called, SPA LIST is the list of SPAs(Single Page Applications).
The reason I made this was that Andrey made <a href="https://darkmodelist.com/">DARK MODE LIST</a> which is the list of web sites that have Dark Mode. DARK MODE LIST makes revenue, so I thought SPA LIST can be able to make revenue too!?
As a result, nothing really happened. The users care if the application has Dark Mode, but not SPA or not.
The good thing is, I made <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/spa-list">a post</a> on Product Hunt for the first time! And SPA LIST got 4 upvotes! It’s quite a few but this was my first, so…
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*zTaIBV8__hLGTZxQazxbfw.png"></figure>One more thing is, I had a conversation with Andrey in DM on Twitter! I asked him if I should make it a paid service and he answered I should. And he told me about <a href="https://gumroad.com/">Gumroad</a>, which is like a Stripe but very easy to use. You don’t need to write codes. Thank you, Andrey!
<h3>🌻June 2019, Refactoring WordPress Facebook Like Ranking</h3>
<a href="https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-facebook-like-ranking/">WordPress Social Like Ranking</a>
As it is called, this is the WordPress Plugin to generate and show the ranking sorted by the number of the likes of each of the articles. I made it when I was joining the internship when I was in the third year of university.
I self-studied programming and did not know how to implement Object-oriented programming at that moment. Thus the codes were so messed up. So I refactored my codes base on <a href="https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/">PSR-2</a>, which is a rule for coding PHP just like Eslint for JavaScript.
There is a good enough number of downloading because I have been putting this plugin on public for a long time(6,7 years?). However, Automattic banned my plugin this September because it contains the word “facebook”. I fixed it and am waiting for republishing.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*V_N5KtjLgSZ8VSKV-1ai6A.png"></figure><h3>🏖️2019/07 NomadPlaceMap</h3>
<a href="https://nomadplacemap.com/">NomadPlaceMap</a>
NomadPlaceMap is the application to show the workplace such as cafes for digital nomads.
I quit my job and moved to Vancouver, which means I don’t have any income. I don’t want to pay money for a co-working space. That’s why I usually go to a library or cafe. Almost 7 days a week. So I always wanted to know the place to work on my indie projects and wanted the product for that. There are some products like that but I just don’t like them, so I made it.
At that time, I really loved the design of <a href="https://hoodmaps.com/new-york-city-neighborhood-map">Hoodmaps</a> by <a href="https://levels.io/">Pieter Levels</a>, who is the maker of <a href="https://nomadlist.com/">Nomadlist</a>. Many emojis and cute font.
After making it, I just let it go. I haven’t developed it.
I used <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/">Mapbox</a> and it was a good experience.
<h3>☀️2019/08 Quorie</h3>
<a href="https://quorie.com/">Quorie - The QA based social network for Indie Makers</a>
Quorie is the QA based social network for Indie Makers. In other words, Quora for Indie Maker. Quorie is Quora + Indie.
There is a big community web site for indie makers, which is called <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/">IndieHackers</a>. The problem of it is that IH is not good at SEO and the search feature is not so that cool. So I tried to make them great on Quorie.
Then, I struggled with gaining users.
<h3>🌳2019/09 AskMakers</h3>
<a href="https://askmakers.co/">AskMakers - Ask experienced makers questions</a>
AskMakers is also a QA based web site for Indie Makers. I struggled from gaining users when I am making Quorie, so I made another kind of effort. That is, I sent lots of emails to make famous/successful makers join AskMakers. I sent a lot of emails while I wrote codes. AskMakers tweets your answer with your account automatically when you answer the question (however, users don’t like it so I deleted it😅). Usually, famous/successful makers have big Twitter accounts, which means AskMakers can get lot’s of cognition if they tweet their answers. So gaining users is not a problem anymore. The thing is, people barely sign up AskMakers when they find it on Twitter…
I launched on Product Hunt😸 As a result, AskMakers got 103 upvotes after 24 hours of the launch🙏
<a href="https://medium.com/media/116d73d974f88d40076eb4da44ff8de7/href">https://medium.com/media/116d73d974f88d40076eb4da44ff8de7/href</a><h3>🍂2019/10 PinWeb</h3>
<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pinweb/dmplmljappnamokkleolccgfklflpljc">PinWeb</a>
PinWeb is a Chrome Extension to add your favorite website to the Pinterest board instantly. Usually, when you do the same thing, you need to take a screenshot of the website and add it to your board. I want to do it with just one click, then I made it.
I have made a lot of community web site(like Social network service), however, I tried a kind of tool product with PinWeb.
<a href="https://medium.com/media/aef50a94f16140530bd863f7278cd522/href">https://medium.com/media/aef50a94f16140530bd863f7278cd522/href</a>The number of upvotes on Product Hunt is 15. I did not really prepare for launch so I accept this result😓
<h3>🍁2019/10 GitThungsDone</h3>
<a href="https://gitthingsdone.co/">GitThingsDone - The synchronized todos with Git Commits</a>
From Oct 2nd, I had been traveling in Southeast Asia.
GitThungsDone is a synchronized todo-list with Git commits. Every todo item has its own id and you need to include that id in the commit message and git commit and git push it. Then the magic happens. That todo item gets ✔ mark automatically!
This was the first time to use Stripe.
<h3>☔2019/11 I recreated 360gram from scratch</h3>
<a href="https://360gram.co/">360gram - Share all angles of your moment</a>
I made the web site to share 360° picture, which is like Instagram for 360° early this year.
I don’t know why, but I rarely post photos on it.
The reason is that I don’t take 360° pictures in my daily life. I do it when I am traveling or doing some special things. The use-case is very different from Instagram.
So I recreated 360gram just like <a href="https://web.500px.com/">500px</a> for 360°.
500px is a photo-sharing website, but only for high quality photos.
<h4>I use React</h4>
I made the first version of 360gram with Nuxt.js. Nuxt.js is an awesome framework and I love it.
But, which framework is the most popular framework in North America!?
The answer is React for sure.
I would like to work in North America so I need to get a skill they like.
That’s the reason I used React this time.
<h3>💫Summary</h3>
The transition of what I have made this year is like community → tool → community.
This seems to mean that I really love making community products.
Yes, I really like making space for people. It does not matter whether it’s on the web or real (I wanna run co-working space in Southeast Asia!).
I think If you really focus on making revenue, then you better make tool products(SaaS). It doesn’t matter if your product is gaining lots of users if it’s SaaS and that is very different from community web sites.
I think it’s best to make your community web site as big and useful as <a href="https://nomadlist.com/">Nomad List</a>, <a href="https://750words.com/">750 Words</a> or <a href="https://visalist.io/">Visa List</a> and make money from it.
So that’s what I want. I want to make a website like them!
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Rewind what I have made since May 2019 (7 products)

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*xHtLue10S4r_ZgBWCfs9QQ@2x.jpeg"><figcaption>Arrived at Khaosan road in Bangkok after about 20h flight</figcaption></figure><h3>👀 Digital Nomad life looks so interesting!!</h3>
Sep 30, 11:49 P.M, I was packing my stuff for my long journey.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*QDX_Rt-wHNXYTF9MmXALAQ@2x.jpeg"></figure>So as I mentioned in the title, I am doing digital nomad as of Oct 2nd.
I love doing backpacker style traveling but this time is not just traveling.
・I have heard/read that many nomad people live in Southeast Asia and I am curious about that lifestyle. ・Some famous indie makers such as <a href="https://twitter.com/levelsio">Pieter Levels</a> and <a href="https://www.andreyazimov.com/">Andrey Azimov</a> used to live and make products there.
And the cost of living in Vancouver is definitely expensive and I don’t like the weather there😅
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*eiuRsldzDM9p-OU-IyXdEQ@2x.jpeg"><figcaption>In the airplane from Vancouver to Beijing, then transit to Bangkok. Air China was actually so good</figcaption></figure><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*3UBAGMiSOF4MzgOe4LchdQ@2x.jpeg"><figcaption>They always gave me beers. The taste was amazing!</figcaption></figure><h3>😱 This feels like my last chance</h3>
If I get something I am interested in, I always would like to try it first then I figure out that’s my thing or not.
How is life as a digital nomad? Does it fit me? I just want to make sure of those things.
I feel like this is my last chance because I am 28 years old and a student in Vancouver. I think it becomes very difficult to travel and work in overseas countries for months after I get a job.
Tokyo(I am Japanese!) or Vancouver, regardless of the city, I feel it’s hard to find a full-remote job.
So I am a student now and can spend my time flexible, which means I can/should try digital nomad now!!!!!😮
I just booked a flight ticket.
<h3>✈️ Itinerary</h3>
My itinerary is below. Even I have been to all the places except for Danang, I am still so excited!
<h4>🇹🇭 Thailand</h4>
・Bangkok(mostly Khaosan road) ・Chiang Mai ←now!
<h4>🇱🇦 Laos</h4>
・Vientiane ・Vang Vieng ・Luang Prabang
<h4>🇻🇳 Vietnam</h4>
・Hanoi ・Danang ・Ho Chi Minh
<h3>👑 Chiang Mai is the best place to do a nomad?</h3>
There are many coworking spaces in Southeast Asia. And I found out that especially Chiang Mai and Bali are better places for digital nomads.
・<a href="https://nomadlist.com/canggu">Cost of Living in Canggu, Bali. Prices Updated Oct 2019.</a>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-align="center" data-dnt="true"> — <a href="https://twitter.com/AndreyAzimov/status/1142372008820219906">@AndreyAzimov</a></blockquote>
・<a href="https://nomadlist.com/chiang-mai">Cost of Living in Chiang Mai. Prices Updated Oct 2019.</a>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-align="center" data-dnt="true"> — <a href="https://twitter.com/AndreyAzimov/status/1162314274900828160">@AndreyAzimov</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://medium.com/media/56fee6153b923599447d7f3d7d514fb7/href">https://medium.com/media/56fee6153b923599447d7f3d7d514fb7/href</a><h3>🙄 How is Ching Mai so far?</h3>
I have currently been in Chiang Mai for 5 days and have one more week to stay.
Most of the time I have been at <a href="http://www.ais.co.th/campais/en/">CAMP AIS coworking cafe</a> which is mentioned above by Andrey.
<h4>Weather</h4>
The weather in Chiang Mai is much better than Bangkok. It is cooler and I can sleep without AC because the temperature at night is around 25℃.
And of course, there are sudden downpours. I literally am writing this article while I am stuck in the restaurant because of that😂
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*51JyAtMa_uq9fVUCbPG07g@2x.jpeg"><figcaption>Heavy rain outside!</figcaption></figure><h4>Work</h4>
The working environment in Chiang Mai is great. You just buy one cup of cafe and then stick and work there at CAMP!
There are so many cheap restaurants downstairs.
I recorded me working there so you can feel the atmosphere of it.
<a href="https://www.periscope.tv/w/1MYxNPBWpMOGw">Taishi @taishikat0</a>
<a href="https://medium.com/media/b803f44fb43d30511612c28164f3cbbf/href">https://medium.com/media/b803f44fb43d30511612c28164f3cbbf/href</a><h4>Internet Speed</h4>
Pretty nice. You should buy a sim of AIS which is one of the mobile phone companies in Thailand.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*bRFCfEroyOmcjMH5sIzs-Q.png"></figure>250(including SIM itself price(50 Baht))Baht for 20GB, which is f**king cheap!
At the CAMP cafe, you can use wifi for 2h for buying a cup of coffee. But 2 hours is not enough, is it? CAMP is run by AIS so you can use the hot spot of AIS there. You can use it if you have an AIS SIM!
You are able to buy an AIS SIM at <a href="http://www.mayashoppingcenter.com/">the same building</a> as the CAMP cafe, so no worries.
<h3>Summary</h3>
I am still in the same restaurant I mentioned before. It keeps raining😴.
Anyway, I keep writing other stories on Medium so please follow me if you are interested in it.
Thank you for reading
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<li><a href="https://taishikato.com/">Taishi Kato</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/taishikat0">Taishi🇨🇦🇯🇵 (@taishikat0) | Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.producthunt.com/@taishi_kato">Taishi Kato's profile on Product Hunt</a></li>
<li><a href="https://askmakers.co/sp/taishikat0">Taishi's profile on AskMakers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tsh_kt/">Login * Instagram</a></li>
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