Reflect on what you learn by writing

Apart from becoming a better writer, blogging can help you organise your thoughts.

Blogging encourages deep thinking.

When you begin to share what you know with others, your ability to communicate gets better.

Blogging helps your brain to stay active.

You will also be able to link ideas and pieces of information better.

Show, don’t tell. That’s what every beginning writer is told. But how is this achieved? And what does it look like when it comes to setting?

In terms of show, don’t tell, there are two broad strategies to think about. When used together they are brilliant tools to really paint a picture in your reader’s mind. The first is to use figurative language (but more on this in another post). The second is to use sensory language — to draw upon the five senses to describe the setting.

Let’s take a look at one of the more underutilised senses: touch.

For nerds who have read my article on visual weight and optical alignment. Minimum words, maximum GIFs.

You’ve seen some of the beautiful bullet journals on Pinterest, and there’s more to this trend than an exercise in creativity. Using a bullet journal can make you a master of the website universe. And it all starts with a pen and paper.

In understanding how to write technical instructions, it’s best to understand how people read them. Most readers will want to know: (1) what you’re doing, and whether it’s relevant to what they are trying to do; and (2) how you did it.

This suggests a simple strategy: first, write about what you’re doing and why, and then, explain how to do it. If you leave out the why, or make it hard to find, your reader will have to closely examine your explanation to understand whether your technique is relevant to them at all. If you leave out the how or make it hard to find, your reader will struggle to replicate your efforts.

1. Font hierarchy is just not about small to big font sizes. It is about the right mix of size, weights, and colors that creates contrast. Bigger contrast, the better
2. Do the math for understanding colors
3. Multiply instead of Drop shadow text

Lots of style guide examples and inspiration

Little and Alex Weldon are wrong calculating how much the bounty is worth based on the starting stack.

Ben Yu is right:
https://www.cardplayer.com/cardplayer-poker-magazines/66301-anthony-zinno-28-9/articles/22369-knockout-tournament-strategy-part-i-calculating-the-value-of-a-bounty

Here are 8 fantastic projects to train your coding muscles! The goal is to build each app with whatever technology stack you prefer. Keep it conflict free, use whatever you want!

Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
Start typing or drop a file into the text area to get started.

Today you’ll learn how to use gradients for a website in Adobe XD through a very useful tutorial.

Always decide on a light source. This will help you decide which are the lighter and darker areas in the gradient.

“…your first draft is only for you. No one is ever going to see it, so you don’t have to worry about it. You’re not going to turn it in. You’re not going to show it to friends to evaluate — because it’s only for you.”

“Nobody creates flawless first drafts. And nobody creates better second drafts without the intervention of someone else. Nobody.”

#1: How’s life?
#2: What are you worried about right now?
#3: What rumors are you hearing that you think I should know about?
#4: If you could be proud of one accomplishment between now and next year, what would it be?
#5: What are your biggest time wasters?
#6: Would you like more or less direction from me?
#7: Would you like more or less feedback on your work? If so, what additional feedback would you like?
#8: Are there any decisions you’re hung up on?

One my prefered playgrounds is SVG. It is Scalable Vector Graphics, which in practice means that you can draw something in the browser using some tags, some stying and some code. How cool is that? Compared with a piece of paper and a pen you can go crazy and the result is generated instantly as you change the elements of your playground in your pen on CodePen.

Whereas the main ideas in the book revolve around the fact that people will like you if you offer them attention (“Become genuinely interested in other people”, or “Make the other person feel important — and do it sincerely” are good examples of this approach), there are other instances where the author’s advice doesn’t feel as authentic. For example, the tip “Let the other person feel like the idea is his or hers” 

This article is pointed towards beginners in Javascript or people who are just starting working with functional Javascript and never heard of map, filter and reduce. If you already have a lot of practice with these, you can just jump to the end of the article where I point you towards some other interesting pieces.

Of all the things that have been helpful to me in personal growth and goal achievement, using my journal daily is at the foundation.

Writing in my journal every single day is the glue that holds everything else together.