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Weekly Summary: 7/11 - 7/17
Welcome to the fourth installment in my weekly summary series, where I give quick recaps of what I worked on the previous week to keep myself accountable.
First, let's go over my weekly schedule:
All this works with my personal goal of studying / coding 2 hours a day. I would like to do more, but I don't have the mental bandwidth to do more, usually, throughout the week.
I don't always stick to this schedule, but I try my best to do so.
Now then, let's get to it!
Now then, let's get to it!
Completed the code re-factoring of my wedding website. I normally don't like to do work on Sundays, but with last week being a light week of coding, I believed it was wise to add the extra day.
Putzed around with Gatsby plugins and failed to get one working that would allow me to embed tweets on Coding Catchup - I will try this again in the near future!
Published last week's Weekly Summary on Coding Catchup and Dev.to
Worked on a new blog post about building my portfolio - coming soon!
Studied React
Added more content to my wedding website - a honeymoon fund!
Studied React
Brainstormed ideas for React projects.
While this could be an easy thing to do and simply commit to building the "go-to" projects like to-do lists, calculators, etc., I want to do more than that...
While this could be an easy thing to do and simply commit to building the "go-to" projects like to-do lists, calculators, etc., I want to do more than that...
That being said, I also need to start building and cannot get caught in "tutorial or course hell." That is, merely consuming content on how to build things, but never actually doing it.
I also squeezed in some studying of React - I found a free resource by Kent C. Dodds who created the acclaimed Epic React so I thought I'd give it a shot. This is hosted on egghead.io - "The Beginner's Guide to React" - I only just started, but am expecting to get through it all early next week!
Friday was a light night - I had a hectic week and needed some downtime with my fiancée. Regardless, I still added some more content to my wedding website - this time it was the hotel information for our guests! I think the site is 99.9% complete and can't see myself making radical changes or adding a ton more to it. I had other wedding stuff to take care of this night, which added to the light night of coding.
Today also concluded my 2nd stint of working in dip.chat - an accountability group for web developers built by Joe Previte. I cannot recommend dip.chat enough - or even just having an accountability-buddy - some way to keep yourself accountable has been huge for me these last 2 months.
Finished writing up this blog post and scheduled it for publishing.
Wrote out my weekly newsletter, which I am still experimenting with. I am trying out a different format this week, rather than simply making the body of email contain this same blog post.
Wrote out my weekly newsletter, which I am still experimenting with. I am trying out a different format this week, rather than simply making the body of email contain this same blog post.
I also continued to work on my blog post about building my new portfolio. I ran out of time to study React, but there is always next week!
This week I am trying to dive deeper into React. I'm almost done reviewing what I had learned previously in my Udemy course so that I feel more confident moving forward in it. I am also racking my brain for websites/apps that I could begin building to create not only portfolio projects, but eventually turn them into real products.
As my former passion in my life, I want to build something for musicians. It would be so fulfilling for me to provide value for the friends and colleagues who have helped me along the way by eliminating a pain-point for them. We'll see what happens in the coming months!
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