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| Can't stop! |
Still, compared to hectic madness that was 2018, this year was a breeze. Being married and all, I can't devote as much time to this enterprise as I'm used to, but sometimes it's all about time management.
It also gives me a sense of purpose. Because work can drive me nuts... and when I get home, I need something to remind myself that I still love this shit. Something fun. Something productive.
Tutorials
2019 is the year I return to my roots - instantly browser-executable HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but with additional front-end niceties like jQuery UI, AngularJS and ReactJS thrown in. My style of coding has changed slightly. I'm now particular about spacing and indentation (fine, more particular than before) and when I do get the chance, my preferred style skews towards Object-oriented Programming. Happily, I still find time to do a little PHP, Ruby and QBasic.Nothing really significant has changed otherwise; I'm still the nerd who codes outside of office hours and derives more pleasure than is reasonable from it. This results in at least one web tutorial a month, and I plan to maintain that standard.
Reviews
There have been a lot of reviews in TeochewThunder this year. Almost every month, there's been a review of some sort or other, and happily, they have been somewhat evenly spread out between film, app and fiction reviews. Reviews are easy to write, usually, and I've discovered a newfound enthusiasm for it. Also, many of these are backdated. While I collect the screenshots and all, I don't always have time to write all these reviews.This blog is about more than tech reviews! And I have to be careful not to turn this into a review blog.
Miscellaneous Features
Spot The Bug. I manage about three of these a year, and to this day, I have not broken that streak.Ropework analogies. One a year seems reasonable. Again, I've managed to keep that up, though this year's seemed a little trite. No matter, all part of the journey.
Listicles. These are fun to make; however they're also a lot of work. They used to be a good way to group related ideas into one blogpost so I wouldn't have to overlap too much when discussing similar ideas next time.
Work on teochewthunder dot com
Things have gotten a wee bit more expensive since 2018, what with me paying for hosting. Still, considering the benefits that this resource brings me, it's a small price to pay.I get a domain name and a portfolio for prospective employers. It isn't great, but it's a heck of a lot better than nothing, which incidentally is what many developers have other than a resume and a lot of bravado. I don't really understand why other web devs don't invest in a domain name and hosting, especially when they're technically more skilled than I am and have a lot more to showcase. But it works in my favor and you know what they say about looking a gift horse in the mouth.
And it has worked. I attended interviews this year and the interviewers all mentioned the amount of code I've put online, along with my tech blogging. Sure, they don't always say it's good, but still. It's a body of work that has spanned years and it's being noticed by the audience for which it was intended.
All in all...
I sometimes struggle with not writing too much, especially when I have points that I want to make. But part of effective writing is restraint, and it's something that many people, not just me, could use more of. |
| Cutting away all that fat. |
Every overly wordy Social Media post or article I come across annoys the living beejeezus out of me and I try very hard not to fall into that trap. These days, more time is spent trimming the fat than actually writing.
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