22nd week of 2021
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Kayaking and pizzaing, finished my first ClojureScript project, SVG squircle generator.
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π¨βπΌ Work
Kayaking and pizzaing
We went kayaking with our team on Tuesday. Here's a photo that I took using my phone's (Unihertz Jelly) potato camera:
And here's a quick selfie that I snapped for my wife (nice picture π):
It was my first time kayaking. It was quite fun but also surprisingly effortful as I had to use my legs to maintain balance and my arms and upper torso to move the kayak forward.
Afterwards we went eating. Some chose fancy foods like entrecΓ΄te, but I chose an exotic pizza. π No picture of it, sadly, but here are the ingredients:
- tomato sauce
- mozzarella cheese
- spreadable Nduja salami
- hot Spianata salami
- blood grapefruit marmalade
- rocket/arugula
- parmesan cheese
- virgin olive oil.
It wasn't very delicious, but I wanted something exotic, and it was exotic. Β―\(γ)/Β―
I can definitely recommend trying out kayaking. And pizzaing too!
π¨βπ Personal
Finished my first ClojureScript project
For the past two weeks, I have been working on my first ClojureScript project called Need for Speed.
It's a very simple web app with only a few form inputs and only one screen/page. So nothing fancy, but it was still quite challenging. π₯΄ Many things could be improved, but I'm going to leave it like that for now.
I definitely want to use Clojure and ClojureScript more in the future. π
Try out Need for Speed and check it out on GitHub.
π¨βπ Learnings
I spent so much time on my ClojureScript project that I didn't have time to write about any learnings. π€·ββοΈ But I have one or two waiting for the next week!
π΅οΈββοΈ Cool stuff
Squircley: SVG squircle generator
Squircley is a simple tool for creating SVG "squircles." From the author's (George Francis) dev.to article Soften up your designs with a Squircle!:
A Squircle, unlike an element with border-radius set, has no straight edges at all. The shape is a continuous curve! Apple love this trick and use it in both physical and digital design.
I love how squircles look! π€© Though funnily my brother doesn't like them, apparently because at some point they have been popular in Android as well so he has already received an overdose of them. π€
But I like them so check out Squircley and see the dev.to article for an interactive example!