Shiny Object Syndrome?
So I don't know why, but for the past two days, I've felt like I have really started to understand CSS. Don't get me wrong. I am talking about understanding it at the most basic level. There is still a bunch that I don&
Read more →What do others think?!
Noah Kagan, from AppSumo, once tweeted: >Don't let yourself become paralysed by the fear of what others think. In reality, they're not even thinking about you. They're too busy thinking about themselves. It reminded me of a recent conversation I had with my
Read more →Success?
>Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. - **Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth** This quote resurfaced today on my Readwise. It made me think about
Read more →We do not see what we do not expect to see
Another of the nuggets shared by Dave Snowden in his youtube talk. He talked about an experiment where a group of radiologists were given a batch of x-rays to look for anomalies. In one of the x-rays, they hid the picture of a gorilla, which was 48 times the size
Read more →Complex Systems
I rewatched a video from 2016 again this morning, and I felt so in sync I want to stop and take notes. I told myself I would let it run and I will take everything in. That I would later find the time to rewatch it and take notes to
Read more →1000 knives
Sometimes the frustration of ineptitude can make you want to stop. The unskilled will succumb to their old ways and not try anymore. I should know. I have been there. These past 5 days have been frustrating for not being to articulate in code what I want to create. It
Read more →CSS Fights
I was so pumped because last night after I posted, I actually fixed the error that was preventing me from populating DfE with data after bringing it online. I thought I was going to be able to make a lot of progress today. I started fighting with CSS (I am
Read more →Very close to launch
So today I decided I would deploy the alpha version of dFe. I hadn't deployed a Django app in a long time, so I thought I'd just do it for fun. Even with the knowledge that I still need to style things better. I planned to
Read more →A full day of code
I didn't see this one coming. So as I said yesterday, I ended up taking the day off. I woke up quite late actually (07:40) and after taking the kids to school and drinking my first coffee, I was at my home office desk at around 08:
Read more →The power of consistency
It's only been a few days since I started working consistently on DfE again, and I can already feel it. Even the smallest of improvements feels like progress. It's a good feeling. Today I spent quite some time converting the hard-coded category cards into dynamically generated
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