Invisible Adversaries
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Howdy. (I’ve always wanted to say that. It’s like a cowboy talking to another!). I’m sending this newsletter a little late this week because I got caught up examining two things — Astro DB and Monorepos. Oh boy. I’m probably gonna write about something technical next week. And I look forward to it. In the meantime, I wrote 4 new articles this week. They mostly revolve around the emotional and psyche aspects. If you think life involves more than just coding, you’ll probably find these articles interesting and helpful. Here are the articles: Sidenotes - MonoreposI discovered another reason why I’ve been avoiding work on CSS Layout Patterns (now Splendid Layouts). Turns out, I’m creating so many libraries that installing, updating, managing dependencies, along with dogfooding these libraries and (hence local development and debugging them) creates a ton of dread. I think Monorepos solve the problem so I’m looking further into it. I’m excited by what I’m seeing right now. Sidenotes 2 - Astro DBAstro DB uses SQLite. I’ve never been a fan of SQL for the longest time because I thought NoSQL was more intuitive. After working on a database for a bit, I think I’m starting to like SQLite over MongoDB. I’m going to explore this a bit more and document my findings on it in the future. Sidenote 3 - Magical Dev School RedesignI’ve finished designing the Homepage of Magical Dev School! Like I said before, this is the bravest thing I’ve done since I started Web Development. If you’re curious and want a sneak peek of the new site, let me know! Otherwise, just wait until I reveal the whole shebang :) Hope you had a great week. And a satisfying one next week. |
Hi! My name is Zell and here are the things I’ve made
I hope you’ve been well. I just returned from a trip to Legoland to celebrate my daughter’s birthday and I’m in somewhat of a panic for having insufficient days to “do work” 😱😅. (I expected I’d have fewer days to work, but wrestling with that fact can still be challenging because of the deadlines I’ve set before). Don’t worry, I’ll figure it out. Two articles today, as usual :) Best Practice for Astro Endpoints This is a quick article on Astro endpoints. Basically, don’t prerender. Stress for...
I’ve been getting back into the swing of writing recently. I’ve got two posts queued up for you — and it’s been years since I last queued up a post! So it’s great! One of my biggest mistakes was to stop writing articles in advance. Instead, I tried to write an article on the same week I wanted to publish… I did that because my writing and publishing process felt dry when I wrote newsletters in advance. It felt like I was talking to a machine instead of a human... and I hated that. This...
How is it going? I hope you have been well this week, that you are making good progress in the directions you wish to be making, and that you’re resolving the obstacles that come, one at a time. You know, I find it incredibly funny to write these newsletters now. There was a period of time when I was like a random-internet-stranger who was hell-bent on giving (dumping, actually) information onto you, hoping that you would buy something from me. But today, I feel like a pen pal (or even a...