How to spice up your technical skills during the end of 2017 hollidays!
Tags: webdev, javascript, podcast, newyear
Published: 2017-12-19 10:38:20

---
title: "How to spice up your technical skills during the end of 2017 hollidays!"
published: true
tags: web-development,javascript,podcast,new-year
canonical_url: 
---

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*0wIj9fAhDS-xAf_GUjEfDg.png)

In this episode (9) of the Mr Frontend Podcast, we are gonna talk about: “How to spice up your technical skills during the end of 2017 holidays!”

_Listen to this podcast on_ [_iTunes_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mr-frontend-podcast/id1271838550?mt=2)_,_ [_Soundcloud_](https://soundcloud.com/mr-frontend-community/mr-frontend-podcast-9-how-to-spice-up-your-technical-skills-during-the-end-of-2017-hollidays)_,_ [_Overcast_](https://overcast.fm/itunes1271838550/mr-frontend-podcast)_,_ [_PlayerFM_](https://player.fm/series/mr-frontend-podcast)_,_ [_CastBox_](http://castbox.fm/channel/Mr-Frontend-Podcast-id1095056?country=us)_,_ [_ListenNotes_](https://www.listennotes.com/c/89df415c538f4b05aa7a9af5049df1cf/mr-frontend-community/?s=id)_,_ [_PocketCast_](http://pca.st/e5d8) _and&nbsp;_[_Youtube_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EvCrDxj4Fs)_._

<iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fw.soundcloud.com%2Fplayer%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fapi.soundcloud.com%252Ftracks%252F369843044%26show_artwork%3Dtrue&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fmr-frontend-community%2Fmr-frontend-podcast-9-how-to-spice-up-your-technical-skills-during-the-end-of-2017-hollidays&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.sndcdn.com%2Fartworks-000270128234-7xktri-t500x500.jpg&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=soundcloud" width="800" height="166" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"><a href="https://medium.com/media/3bc3f341cf1a4d17172652ad7cb324d5/href">https://medium.com/media/3bc3f341cf1a4d17172652ad7cb324d5/href</a></iframe>
### **Spice up your skills with a Sideprojects for the end of 2017&nbsp;holidays**

#### **Why?**

- Build something cool or fun you enjoy while you set the requirements
- You can learn something new!
- Pick the Framework or Library you always wanted to learn or do it with Vanilla JavaScript!

#### **Inspiration**

- Build a Netflix clone with The MovieDB ([https://www.themoviedb.org](https://www.themoviedb.org))
- Build a weather app with the Weather API ([https://openweathermap.org/api](https://openweathermap.org/api))
- Build a blog with the WordPress JSON API, you may use the Mr Frontend WordPress API ([http://blog.mrfrontend.org/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/](http://blog.mrfrontend.org/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/))
- Build a blog with the Medium API ([https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs#33-posts](https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs#33-posts))
- Search your favorite Artist with the Spotify Search API ([https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/search-item/](https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/search-item/))
- Build a User management system with the Random User API ([https://randomuser.me](https://randomuser.me))
- Create custom QR codes with the QR Code Generator API ([http://goqr.me/api/](http://goqr.me/api/))
- Build a wallpaper app with the Unsplash API ([https://unsplash.com/developers](https://unsplash.com/developers))

#### **Searching for Cool&nbsp;APIS?**

- Check: [https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis](https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis)

Let me know what you build with it during the holidays!

Next week is the last episode of 2017! Then we take some time off and get ready for an energizing 2018 full of new&nbsp;stuff!

If you like it like and share the podcast! And don’t forget to subscribe!!

See you next&nbsp;week!!

_Originally published at_ [_Mr Frontend&nbsp;Blog_](https://blog.mrfrontend.org/2017/12/how-to-spice-up-your-technical-skills-during-the-end-of-2017-hollidays/)_._

* * *