My first weeknotes! I’m jumping on the bandwagon. There will probably be a few kinks I need to work out as I find a format that I like.
Learning Vue
I’ve been looking at Vue for quite some time, and this week I was finally able to start using it on a new project. It’s perhaps a bit overkill for this particular project, but this will give us a bit of experience with it for future work. This website needs to be completely client-side logic, so I’m not feeling so bad about going all in with JavaScript.
Birthday
I celebrated my 40th birthday last week. Birthdays have been a bit strange during the pandemic, but I had a fun, relaxing day at home (while it rained outside most of the day). I spent the day hanging out with my family, eating some good food, and putting together a new LEGO set. At the end of the day, I was shown a surprise video of birthday messages from friends and family around the country (and world).
![LEGO Steamboat Willie](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_1219-scaled.jpg)
Hockey
I‘m very excited to have the NHL back! (I’m not so excited about how my Penguins are doing…) The fake crowd noise is a bit weird, but I still think it’s better than total silence.
Podcasts
- ShopTalk Show — Web Components, Frameworks vs Vanilla, Accessible Numbers, and SVG Memory Usage
- Smashing Podcast — Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? with Chris Ferdinandi — This episode came at a pretty good time for me as I’m starting to use Vue.
Links
- The GitHub Profile Trick — A hidden GitHub feature that allows you to customize your profile page by using a
README.md
file in a repo with the same name as your username. - Watch Popcorn Popping in Super Slow Motion (100,000 fps)
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things trailer
- CUBE CSS — An interesting new CSS methodology.
- Using Trello as a Super Simple CMS — Very cool!