Soooo I’ve been slowly chipping away at this project and I’m proud to announce I have a working version I think I can re-purpose for another project (the project this whole thing started for). I gotta admit, at some point I started wondering why I was bothering with this whole thing, mostly because I used …
This Week in Coding: #016
For the past week was incredible in terms in progress. I was wired and super excited to get through the work required for each of the requirements I established for my static site generator. Yes I’m using a lot of plugins and configuring them is no easy task. Anyway, I’ve enjoyed the progression but I …
This Week in Coding: #015
I’ve spent more time than I’m comfy sharing just reading this week. I also spent a lot of time working on my static site generator which I would like to wrap up no later than April. I’m tracking my progress in a Markdown file, which I pushed to a public github repo last week. Heading …
This Week in Coding: #014
This week I spent mostly recovering for a mysterious bug that knocked me out, but I did find time to catch up on reading and complete some laptop configuration stuff. I’m slowly returning to my JavaScript refresher activities. I’ve actually managed to sort through some of my endless FireFox bookmarks to filter out some of …
This Week in Coding: #013
I’m actually on PTO and this post is being typed from in the beautiful St. Croix… I may not come back! But I did find time to catch up on some of my tech reading. I have so many things bookmarked and saved away and honestly I’m sure I won’t get to a lot of …
When deep learning becomes deep distractions
A few years ago I bought a book called Deep Work and loved it. A lot of the ideas shared in the book were part of my mindset but I needed the reinforcement. This post is not about that book, but it is about what sometimes happens when I apply the principles of the book …
This Week in Coding: #012
For the first time in years I took almost 2 weeks off from my day job. It felt so short but it was long enough to completely ruin my daily routines: my coding practices, writing plans, and sleep schedule. I’m slowly getting back to that routine. So what I thought would be a 2-week break …
Browsersync setup on Windows Ubuntu (WSL)
I called myself spending maybe 1 -2 hours after work trying to learn CSS Grid and instead found myself in WSL hell trying to get my local CSS Grid learning environment identical to the instructors – SMH. For anyone using Wes Bos’s CSS Grid course who is also on a Windows 10 machine and using …
Using the mklink command in Windows Ubuntu (WSL)
I spent more time than I care to admit trying to figure out how to make symlinks generated through Windows Ubuntu (also known as WSL, Windows Subsystem for Linux) recognizable in Windows. I kept using this command: ln -s my-actual-dir my-symlink. And it would create a file instead of a directory. Also, it would be …
Notes on CSS Grid Garden
I originally took this course back in May 2017 but for some weird reason, never published my notes, which I found while attempting to empty my drafts. Decided to unleash them into the universe. Enjoy! I originally thought I would design Akudo.Codes using the new CSS Grid features so I wanted to familiarize myself with …