Notes from my week.
Work
- Continuing to finish up the first phase of the K-State DFS project. It sounds like future work may be put on hold while requirements are collected.
- Had a meeting to discuss building e-mail templates in TargetX
- Started working on our new build tools, trying to decide between Gulp or npm scripts
- Planning for the future with the K-State mobile app
- Meeting with Decisions to see what’s new with the software (and see if they have addressed any of our accessibility concerns)
- Started “Vue: Getting Started” on Pluralsight
Personal
- Family trip to Lawrence to meet up with the grandparents and visit a pumpkin patch event for our kids’ school
- Ate at Terrebonne
- Dinner with my dad
Watched
- The Wizard of Oz — The kids loved it
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — The best of the Harry Potter movies
- DuckTales
- A few random college football games
Played
- Untitled Goose Game — I finished all the things
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — FLASHBANG night with college friends
- Fortnite
Reading
- Finished The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (audiobook) — I’ve lived in Kansas my entire life and somehow had never read this (although I’ve seen the movie many times)
- Started Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Podcasts
- The CSS Podcast — 020: Functions
- All Consuming — Magic Spoon
- ShopTalk Show — 434: Natalya Shelburne on Design Engineering
Links
- Sony gives in-depth look at PlayStation 5 UI in new video
- Apple announces iPhone 12 with OLED screen and 5G speeds — My 5-year-old iPhone 6s is starting to show its age, so this might be the year I upgrade
- The (extremely) loud minority — Interesting to see how few websites are built in React compared to something like WordPress
- The Web History podcast — Jeremy Keith reads the history of the web
- The Animaniacs return in their first new parody in years — Whoa, new show coming November 20!
- Layoutit Grid: Learning CSS Grid Visually With a Generator
- I’ve been reading a lot of articles on build tools this week as I work on updating our tools at work:
- Why npm Scripts? — Pretty good walkthrough on how to get started with npm scripts
- Helpers and tips for npm run scripts
- Comparison of npm scripts vs Gulp
- Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for npm Scripts
- Grunt vs Gulp: Battle of the Build Tools
- Using Npm Scripts as a Build Tool — I want to go with npm scripts for simplicity, but that method looks to be quite a bit slower than Gulp
- Uglify vs. Babel-minify vs. Terser: A mini battle royale
- Webpack: When To Use And Why