In true “me style” I am thinking I might change my 1-hour series. Ditch it, and do the Weird Web October instead. I have already found that the endless possibilities are a bit too much, so much so that I have not yet actually completed “one thing” yet. I do have to remind myself that the purpose of doing 1-hour series is that I suffer with believing that I have not done anything, when actually the reality is that the thing I am doing is not finished, or if it is finished then it is not yet perfect. A loop which can end up in me being paralysed and then end up not actually doing anything at all.

Monday 22 September

I spent more time thinking about how to improve my workflow. I have not yet put proper thought into this for my home projects. For example when first started building websites for my uni projects they first wanted us to start with a very basic desktop copy/server copy version control. This made sense because at the time the course was made up of people with no coding experience (this included me) and this was the lowest effort of entry. My intention was always to eventually use Git for version control. However, as you know in uni courses you tend to have less and less time as you get towards the end. And so come the final project I only got as far as setting up a local environment so that I could do some server-side development. and then used some automation for saving back-ups regularly as a fail safe.

I came to the conclusion that deciding a workflow was holding me back. So I need to put this aside for the sake of the 1-hour a day. I know, I know! But I am trying to get out of a funk here, I know it is important, but we are going for something rather than doing something properly.

Tuesday 23 September

I have decided to work on adding the close icon to the hamburger menu on this website. I made it the SVG icon, but I never put it in. Just because it was not on the high priority task list. I didn’t get around to finishing this, but it looks like an easy fix. I just need to find the asset (I made it a few years ago). Once I have done that I think maybe I could mess around with some CSS transitions and make it more fun.

Wednesday 24 September

Look, I started doing a mosaic when I got home and the next thing I knew it was dark time. Sometimes being off-screen is good for your mental health (but obviously, I had Gilmore Girls on the tablet in the background).

Thursday 25 September

I have spent more than an hour today doing some research on some improvements for a local charity website. I am doing some volunteer work for them. I am yet to get the full project brief. But I have been doing a bit of general research for ideas in preparation for a meeting with them today.

Friday 26 September

I am writing this on Thursday, but I think I am going to be a bit busy tomorrow, so I am not sure if I will fit anything in. So, in anticipation that I might not get around to anything, I will type here what I could do, so that the page looks finished, ha!

I might get myself ready with some ideas for Weird Web October. I won’t be able to do anything in the first few days because I am in Berlin (woo), so perhaps I could get myself ready to make the first post easier to do when I get back. If not that, then finish and upload the changes to the hamburger menu on the Woolwich Makers Market Website.

Friday Update

I did actually end up doing some more weird web October stuff as well as some charity website stuff.

Saturday 27 September

I wasn’t planning on counting the weekends for the 1-hour a day task. But I did do some web related stuff today because I have spent the day doing lots of laundry so that I can pack for my holiday. This meant staying at home all day. Which is not really my thing on the weekend.

I noticed last night that the charity website wasn’t responsive on my tablet. I was watching something on it and then I thought oh wait, I have done a bunch of updates to the website (these were very small non layout changes), but I hadn’t checked the breakpoints. Just in case something I had changed looked weird because it overflowed or something. So I opened my web browser to about the size of a mobile screen and it looked fine at first, but then as I started to click around it eventually broke. I now can’t get the website to ever show mobile view on my tablet. It actually seems like being able to view it in mobile mode was “broken” in Wix’s view because when I looked into it it turns out they do not use breakpoints, they use user agents. This means you have two views of your website; a browser view for everything that isn’t a mobile, and a mobile view. You also have no way of adding breakpoints to your browser view. So if you want to multitask and have a Wix website open, well you’re gonna struggle. Unless the person has fully rebuilt their wix website in wix studio, or inserted some inline CSS using javascript. What a joke ha!

I am now about to set up my GitHub repo for my Weird Web October projects because I am already annoyed that I cannot use commit so that I can mess around and not worry about being able to go back to a previous version. There is nothing like being annoyed enough to eventually do things the correct way, which you knew from the beginning you should have done it like that anyway. I can never work organised for myself, it always has to be for the benefit of others (this is why you should hire me – because I will do this sort of stuff for your project for you).