I took a break. No coding, designing, writing, talking to people. For a while I did nothing. Not even that - I unplugged from the world of doing. A few weeks ago I felt a jolt of new energy. Since then I’ve been making music, kind of full time, kind of for the first time in my life.
And I’m enjoying it. It feels right. Like what I really want to do. But, man, I’m stressing: things like THE FUTURE and financial security make it hard to focus. I wake up anxious, I feel confused and overwhelmed, even though I’m kind of doing what I really want to do.
And so I’m dipping my toes again into the world of learning marketable skills for fun and profit. At least I have a reason to write, again.
I don’t feel like I want to keep calling this design, tho (at the time of writing, the title of this section is #100DaysOfDesign). It feels too stifling, and at the same time, too vague. Even when I was officially sailing under that flag, my actual work was making abstract art, building an app and researching a lot of web technologies. Not sure any of this qualifies as design. (I feel like for it to be design, I would be finding out what people need, as a starting point.)
So let’s rename this space, so I can talk about whatever I want, in peace. There might be more stuff about mixing, coding and plants coming :). We’ll see.
For now, we can say
goodbye 100 Days of Design,
hello 100 Days of Doing Stuff.
Designed cards for day 2 and 3 I’m not telling how much time that took
Designed the landing page for mobile
Made my boi Astro get all my blog posts (which are markdown files) and display them on a single page
I feel slightly, uhm, dissatisfied with the design for the landing page. I tell myself it’s a rough sketch. It lives in Figma. I’m slightly proud of my component setup, using some atomic design principles. It’s really cool to see changes made to an individual part (like this piece of text) ripple down and spread to all posts in the prototype.
I’m gonna start implementing this in CSS tomorrow. I gave up the idea that the design has to be perfect before building it. And it feels so freeing (thank you, Refactoring UI) Iteration, baby. Itration, bab. Filtration, bb. Get rid of the ideas that are stopping You (I feel like I should be saying this through a megaphone, but not in a good way). Kind of curious to see where this will go.
Designed card for day 4 This time it was a 1-pomodor-sprint. I wanna keep it loose like this
Research: looked into CSS frameworks Windi and Uno
Today was a low energy day due to sleep deprivation. That’s not totally a bad thing. I felt too tired to stress, too slow to rush like usual. It’s nice to have a day where I work in a chill way towards some realistic goals. In fact, I got as many todo-items checked off today as ever - mostly setting up my dev ennvironment, plugin by plugin. My girlfriend said you’re doing tiny important steps. 💚
For context: as I write this, the blog is still not online. Well, it technically is, but I haven’t announced it yet. It looks, well, not very good. It’s barely a webpage, but still - I’m almost ready to give it the old shoutout. I just wanna make it look coherent and a little prettier. I’ve got my designs in Figma, they just have to be implemented. So I was researching CSS frameworks/engines/preprocessors today.
Think I’m gonna go with Tailwind for now, just because the integration with Astro is easier as of the time of writing. I’m done with set up, researching frameworks, debugging plugins.
That’s kind of it. A part of me would have liked to have gone ahead and styled this blog, like I had intended to do today. Come to think of it, I kind of veered off of that goal. Not sure why I felt that this was the day to set up my IDE. But the great thing about being thoroughly sleep-deprived - I feel too tired to be disappointed.
Off to the depths of my comfort zone: eating a sandwich and watching Ross’s Game Dungeon
