Read through more of the Material Design guidelines
Worked on my CV design
Today was one of those low-energy small-steps days: feeling sleepy and flat, so let’s just make a tiny progress in a project or two. Then I can go back to napping, again :)
So that’s what I did. Practiced some skim-reading, that was interesting. Learning that Material Design, and website-design in general, has many more things to teach me. But I felt today, that it’s time to build and implement again. I will learn as I go.
Feeling like I’m running behind. Backlog’s building up. Ideas that seemed fresh a week ago already becoming stale, buried by the flow of things. And a hunger for more creating, (more energy, more time).
Goals this week
Pick and set up an MD component framework within my grocery-list-Vue-app
Get my CV to ‘good enough’ and send out an application
Researched a bunch of stuff around Material Design (implementation, use-cases, MD 2 vs 3)
Set up a Material Design framework within my Vue coding project
In my research I learned that MD 3 isn’t even baked into any of the Vue frameworks that are available. Looks like I’ll have to customize my the framework I’ve picked, or implement it from scratch.
Don’t know what to write. Feels like the same existential crisis I’ve been in since I did my coding bootcamp in 2020. What am I even doing? Setting up build-environments for hours at a time, failing to install npm packages, copying CSS-build-chains from example projects and crossing my fingers hoping they work. Man, after a day of doing such things, I definitely feel like I’ve taken a turn in the wrong direction.
It feels kind of soulless. I feel like there are things to unpack here, but I just spent a good 5 minutes staring at the wall and no coherent expression wants to come out.
I’m slightly proud I’ve made some solid progress on my weekly goals. And it feels good being on a streak, doing a few tiny steps every day. New challenges tomorrow.
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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
