Today's Progress: I started The Odin Project, and learned about web technologies. Much of it I already knew, but it was refreshing to review. I also learned how to use git and practiced a simple git workflow.
Thoughts I forgot how much I loved using the terminal for so many things - it was great to work through a git workflow using it.
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Today's Progress: Started working through the HTML/CSS Sections on The Odin Project (TOP). Reviewed Mozilla's docs for overviews on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Started freecodecamp (2nd time) and picked back where I left off (Responsive web design)
Thoughts Surprised to be using freecodecamp again! I love this resource. I can't wait to migrate my previous mini-projects onto git.
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- HTML, CSS, and Applied Visual Design at https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn
Today's Progress: Nearly completed with FreeCodeCamp's Responsive Web Certification - worked through Applied Accessibility, Responsive Web and Design Principles, CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid.
Thoughts I enjoyed learning about CSS Flexbox and Grid - these were always so mysterious to me when I first started years ago. It was also really great to learn about Accessibility and all the ways web developers must keep in mind the edge various of certain users, and how important these are for designing inclusively.
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- Applied Accessibility, Responsive Web Design Principles, CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid at https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn
Today's Progress: Worked through some more of CSS Grid, then started working on self-building a blog to apply some of the learnings.
Thoughts It's amazing how beautiful a website can look by just employing minimalism. There's a lot to go here, I want to: add infinite scroll and media, a nice way to upload my writing, and some basic SEO. Also, I need a solid workflow for building websites - I was switching off from HTML to styling too much, and it feels like I could have created this in 1/3 the time (though it did only take about an hour).
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Today's Progress: Made progress on the self-blog. Added styling using CSS grid.
Thoughts Didn't get to code as much as I'd like today - work demands took precedence. Starting new role as Product Manager tomorrow.
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Today's Progress: Added icons and used CSS Flexbox to style them appropriately. Left side-bar now has a good skeleton; next need to add in the right side's infinite scroll & content management pieces.
Thoughts It's amazing how much faster my workflow is using CLI and google. I also learn more when I push myself to apply concepts and build using vision as opposed to "stealing like an artist" and drawing inspiration from others' websites. There's certainly a tradeoff here between originality and speed. For now, the answer is speed. I do not want HTML/CSS to be my core expertise; they'll come over time. I want my core expertise as a dev to be in JS and more back-end languages.
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Today's Progress: Wrapped up self-blog for the moment, going to learn infinite-scroll and implement on the write side. Started on the Product Landing Page at FCC.
Thoughts having fun :)
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Today's Progress: Pretty busy at work lately so haven't been able to code much, but made significant progress on the product landing page today. Played with grids, flex, and made a custom nav.
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Today's Progress: Started setting up apache web server on my mac to show projects I'm working on live for friends in the discord group. Didn't finish setting it up; need to figure out how to provide secure access (or at least get past the 403, set up dns resolution for my ip or add a domain name, and provide a home directory to see the different websites in one place.
Thoughts Listened to DHH talking about Ruby on Rails the other day. Looking for more happiness, expression, and creative flow in my work. Excited.
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Today's Progress: Only coded for 1 hour today. Styled footer on Product Landing Page and fixed the elements features.
Thoughts I feel like 1) I am over-using grids / flexbox, and I still need to make the sites more responsive. On my next site, I will start with a responsive-first approach and ensure I use @media queries to get experience with those. I would like to understand what typical best-practice patterns look like here. Also, I heard about CSS Preprocessing - looking forward to looking into this.
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