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A Good Developer Week
This is just a note for myself, as a kind of reference. Last week, I had a pretty nice week at work. Nothing major, but I’ve felt very positive and productive with my work hours. A lot of good conversations, completed a lot of new functionality, even helped others a bit with some troubleshooting.
Coding Day
Took the day off work today (as my birthday day off), and how do I spend it? Instead of sitting in front of a computer coding downtown all day, I sit in front of a different computer coding all day. Because apparently, that’s what I like doing in my time off.
Easy Early Mornings
You know that feeling you get, when you stay up all night cramming for a final? And then when it’s 9AM, there’s a low-level buzzing in the back of your eyes? And it’s a little difficult to concentrate, because you feel slightly removed from what’s in front of you?
Exploring React and Material Design
Spent a lot of today looking over open source projects that contain React components already styled to work with Google’s Material Design. I’m not a huge fan of the flat look, but I hesitate to always reach for Bootstrap and figured on trying something a little new.
Slowly, Surely
I can tell I’m starting to get the ball rolling more because I’ve started to wake up around 5:45AM, lately. Early mornings are always a good sign.
Time to Start Driving
Using the car and map analogy, it feels like I’ve finally figured out the route I need to take… and I can begin driving. And actually getting a little bit of road under my tires.
Slow Progress is Still Progress (Albeit Slow)
I’m not really building much yet. It’s more like I’m learning what a hammer feels like, learning what a nail feels like. And then trying to use them. But oh wait, that’s not a nail – that’s a screw. Which looks kind of similar, but functions in a different way. So let’s not use that just yet.
Down the Rabbit Hole
I had a full, open day today and I spent most of it at my computer, just… reading over options. I was working on a new project idea, and got around zero lines of code written.
Mattias Petter Johansson: Composition, Inheritance, and Murder Robots
“We also need a murder robot that can drive and kill… all the cats and dogs that are pooping all over your nice, Scandinavian, white floors.”
A Silly Idea, Realized: I Feel Stressed Out
I have a propensity to get worked up (and stressed out) over really stupid, trivial stuff. One morning in December, my wife reminded me through her singing that I should just ease up a little bit. And that’s ultimately what ifeelstressedout.com is all about. If you’re feeling stressed out, maybe this will help a little.
Network Effect: Your Time Here is Limited
“The videos activate our voyeurism, the sound recordings tempt us with secrets, and the data promises a kind of omniscience, but all of it is a mirage — there is no one here to watch, there is no secret to find, and the data, which seems to be so important, is actually absurd. In this sense, the project mirrors the experience of browsing the web – full of tantalizing potential, but ultimately empty of life.”
Villanelle Bot: Poems in the Villanelle Form, Created Using Random Posts from Twitter
The villanelle is a really great poetic form, and has a really interesting structure. In the first stanza, the first and third lines rhyme… and are repeated throughout the poem. They alternate, and server as the final lines for the subsequent stanzas. At the very end of the poem, they come back together and finish the poem as a couplet.
Code Day
Sorry, this is a cheap move. But it’s been busy lately, and ended up choosing to focus on code tonight at the expense of the blog.
Coding a Lot Lately
Lately, I’ve been spending as much free time as I can working on a side project. Which – yay! I went through a spell there of a few weeks where I didn’t have any kind of side project. Which felt… weird.