26th week of 2021
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New profile picture, putting the weekly log on hold, using long command line flags when scripting, bookmarklet to hide sensitive information, support tables for HTML and CSS in email clients (Can I Email).
Weekly log
Highlights of what I have been working on, what I have learned and what cool stuff I have found. Currently on hold (previously updated weekly).
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2021
25th week of 2021
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Less time at work (vacation),
more time for a side project;
combining import + export in JS;
Snowpack, a lightning-fast front-end build tool.
24th week of 2021
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Mustache + React = mess, announcing a secret side project, README generator, lazy loading images with SVG previews.
23rd week of 2021
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Smoke testing, conditional props in React + TypeScript, 5 rules of ARIA, zero-runtime CSS-in-TypeScript (vanilla-extract).
22nd week of 2021
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Kayaking and pizzaing, finished my first ClojureScript project, SVG squircle generator.
21st week of 2021
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Better daily stand-up meetings, using Parinfer in Cursive IDE, ½ kB state machine hook for React.
20th week of 2021
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Handling page changes with React Router,
<strong> and <em> from accessibility perspective,
user-defined conversion operators in C#,
cool color matching app.
19th week of 2021
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Linting Markdown using ESLint, avoidable words in educational writing, commenting Bash commands, GPT-3-powered cover letters.
18th week of 2021
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New RSS feeds for my website, Google tricks, split diffs in your terminal, two-way data binding in React, and more.
17th week of 2021
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Site-specific components in a multi-site React app, fallback refs in React, cool UI recreations, and more.
16th week of 2021
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New webcam, setting goals for personal projects, CSS learnings, Conventional Comments, frequency illusion.
15th week of 2021
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Stepped CSS animations,
fn.length in JavaScript,
cool voxel website,
heights vs widths in CSS.
14th week of 2021
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Started using an RSS reader,
block and inline directions in CSS,
clip-path in CSS.
13th week of 2021
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Updating React context outside of a component, Excel tricks (!), CSS learnings.
12th week of 2021
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No learnings (!), using only custom hooks in React.
11th week of 2021
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Safari problems, Clojure exercises, cool feature in Firefox DevTools, 4 types of documentation.
10th week of 2021
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TypeScript exercises and learnings, checking leap years in JavaScript, cool NuGet (C#) packages.
9th week of 2021
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Action-driven and smoother CSS animations, alternative to CSS clearfix hack, icon creation tutorials for Figma, .NET refactoring videos.
8th week of 2021
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Episerver blocks + AutoMapper, 5k points on Stack Overflow, React Testing Library learnings, enforcing specific Node.js versions.
7th week of 2021
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Employee of the month, 0 second visit durations in analytics, measuring blog posts using pomodoros.
6th week of 2021
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React server-side rendering, being an inspiration, JavaScript closures, exploring GitHub repos with VS Code.
5th week of 2021
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Episerver + AutoMapper, coding SVG icons by hand, bad TypeScript habits, and more.
4th week of 2021
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Episerver + TinyMCE + React, lazy vs greedy quantifiers in regular expressions, Tailwind-in-JS library (Twind), and more.
3rd week of 2021
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I'm an Agile Master, two types of skills and learning, on React's ecosystem, and more.
2nd week of 2021
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New microphone, calculating week numbers in JavaScript, Locality of Behavior principle, and more.
1st week of 2021
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Scheduling vacations like a pro, tail call optimizations, uncontrolled form inputs in React, and more.
What's the current week number?
Today (this page is automatically rebuilt once per day) is Monday, July 26, 2021, and it's the 30th week here in Finland.
Did you know that calculating week numbers is complex? In your area the current week number might be something else than here. I learned that on the 2nd week of 2021.