Been rebuilding a collection of Pokemon cards as I haven’t really been since I was little. Buying packs whenever I can. This is by far my favorite called I’ve pulled. #PokemonDay

Came across a not so fun issue when testing my site across browsers. It's only on Brave browser so far, but the vfx-js for the image makes the whole screen shake, which is not ideal. Tried some fixes but have yet to find a solution.

ran 'npm outdated' on an old fullstack project I wanted to work on again. Got a lot of fixing to do.

Playing around with the VFX-JS library to add some fun animations to my "Sounds Spooky" site. Updated the flickering effect for title using CSS and added a glitch animation to the ghost microphone image.

When I see an open source GitHub repository that has an open issue I know I can solve and contribute to.

Monday, or as I like to call it : “the day I forget everything I’ve ever learned about coding.”

Taking breaks from learning Vue to make some fun beats in Strudel.

-10 degrees Fahrenheit, over a foot of snow. Walking to the corner store. Do you need anything?

My full stack project from two years ago watching me login to make a test post to keep the free DB from pausing.

Got my Mom into Studio Ghibli movies. She’s watched “Spirited Away”, “Whisper of the Heart”, and “Ponyo”. She just texted me asking if she should watch “Grave of the Fireflies”.

I feel like I’ve been sick since before the holidays. Starting to feel better and then I hurt my back. What a great start to the year. Now I’m just focusing my energy into learning Vue and finishing up my other coding projects.

LinkedIn sending me a notification to watch my year in review.

“Hey consumer, we added an AI feature to that thing you use. No it doesn’t improve your experience…no it doesn’t help with productivity. It’s here to collect and steal everything about you and sell it. Pretty cool, right!? And best part, you can’t turn it off.”

Refreshing my Python skills by doing some leetcode challenges. Realizing I need to really up my Anki decks with Python material, as I feel I've forgotten so much of the syntax and quirks of Python.

There’s a blizzard outside but I got nowhere to go today, so I’m just tucked in and catching up on all the manga I’m reading.

All these companies saying they have the best office “culture” and that you need to be in office are crazy. My home office “culture” is my cat telling me it’s time for a play break. And nothing can beat that.

Still snowed in today. Luckily I have no on site calls today. Making a simple e-commerce site for my portfolio. While cleaning out a closet I found my old Nintendo 3ds. Even after probably more than 10 years, it turned on right away. Time to bundle up with some hot cocoa and play all day.

My little snow plow can’t handle the almost 3 feet off dense wet snow. Was looking for a snow plow truck and this company’s website could use some work. It’s just the template with placeholder text in each section. I’m going to see if I can get some freelance work out of it.

Almost the holidays, and the snow is coming down. Spent the morning doing some anki review and codewars. Now updating my Sounds Spooky login page to have a flickering animation that only plays on landing page and login page.

Heard of this interesting Math fact called Kaprekar's Constant. The explanation is too long for here but it's in the code snippet. Basically in certain conditions the result will always be 6174 within 7 steps. So of course I had to code it. Could of used recursion but went with a while loop.

Seeing that snow is possibly coming to my area soon: “I love snow, it’s so pretty!” Remembering I have to drive to a lot of customers places:

If you see this, post an anime you love.

Lady Yuna in her delightful elderly lady Halloween costume. Just want you to know she’s purring loudly. She loves costume time. I think she knows a fun treat is coming after

Happy Halloween 🎃 My cat was not a fan of my mask.

Working on a little Halloween game that is a rework of a previous memory game I made. Was losing my mind why it wouldn't trigger game over when two pairs were found. Turns out I had typed it wrong. Object.value() instead of Object.values() so it was always undefined. Mondays, right!?

“My art isn’t good, my writing isn’t good, I’m just bad at making things. ” Just do the thing. If you love it. Draw, paint, write silly poems. Take out of focus pictures Of the ones you love.

Having to hit that git restore after an hour of adding too much sauce to my spaghetti code. Now just sitting in the dark staring at my computer like

Was locked in earlier today while coding and about an hour in I realize I’m slumped over and in full shrimp form. Posture check!! Keep your backs and necks safe out there.

Was doing an easy leetcode challenge to merge sorted arrays. Ok, simple. A little splice here a concat there. Works on my end. In leetcode it fails. Of course they throw me a weird curveball The final sorted array should not be returned by the function, but instead be stored inside the array nums1.

Today is the end of Windows 10 support. Kind of glad I no longer work at my local IT MSP. A lot of the businesses that they manage have old equipment and won’t be able to upgrade. It’s definitely going to be a headache for them.

Starting the day strong with a handful of leetcode challenges. It's been awhile since I've done any leetcode and it shows. I'm making silly ass mistakes on what should be easy, but I forgot the tricky edge cases that leetcode throws at you.

Finished Silent Hill f tonight and now I am staring at the darkness and feeling crazy. Great game! But ending 1 out of 5?? I do not have time for all that.

She’s stretching in the sunshine. #Caturday

Having lots of fun playing silent hill f. It’s stressing me out so much, which is a good thing in a horror game.

you think you know a person and then bam! light mode screenshot

Terrifying my cat while singing out loud and trying to hit the high notes on all the songs from kpop demon hunters.

Working on Anki/Banki in between work and in most of my free time experimenting more with Strudel repl. Learned how to use arrange(), it takes tuples of duration and patterns. Found ways to use multiple stacks in different ways for arrangement. And the most fun, all the visual options!

first time trying framed. Where you guess a movie by screenshots. Got it first frame. Let’s go!! Framed #1271 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

Having way too much fun with Strudel repl. Got to remember to make time for finding work and freelance clients, and of course, my weakness, networking. But Strudel has a hold on me. I crave to learn more to understand it.

After reading some of the docs and watching a short video, I'm kind of getting the hang of using strudel repl. This is a first attempt at combining sounds to play together. Having lots of fun experimenting!

Oh, I definitely need to dive deep into this!! strudel.cc

When you clear all the errors in your code with one bracket...

Making changes to my "Sounds Spooky" project so that the user can adjust some of the settings for the audio visualizer. At the moment I have it so they can change the bar spacing, and make it radial or mirror. Super fun! Been doing everything except finishing the reset password feature 😞 #100Devs

Found this pretty useful site that has tons of cheat sheets and references for many programming languages, Linux commands, databases, and more. The ads that pop up on it are a tad annoying but it seems to be a good resource #100Devs quickref.me/index.html

Happy international Cat day!

Added audiomotion-analyzer npm package to my "Sounds Spooky" site. Wasn't too difficult to implement. Only ran into a CORS issue that had an easy fix. Going to play around with the visuals, but happy to get it working and displaying only when play button is clicked. First Try...Almost!! #100Devs

Yuna’s dental work went well and didn’t require surgery, so the cost didn’t break the bank. She’s now home and zonked out from the anesthesia. She’s making the same goofy blank stare I sometimes make when looking at the code I wrote.

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

Been getting behind on my coding studies. Life has thrown too many lemons my way. Yuna went to the vet recently and they found she’ll need some dental cleaning work and possible surgery. She should be fine, but the costs has me sweating. Here’s a pick of her hiding from the vet.

Sent this to my Dad. His response: 👍