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2:20 PM, Monday September 21st 2020

It all started when I saw memes in the plaza of Splatoon for the wii u in 2015. So in short, memes. Long story, I have a huge interest in industrial design. I like the idea of being able to make anything I can write down. I suggest you stick to vanilla JavaScript when it comes to learning. Every job that HR makes is like "Requires 14 years of experience in angular", but they never say which specific version of angular. Frameworks are a mess and as soon as you are doing making something in it, it has been deprecated. Where I am, they abandoned mobile app development for web apps. On account for web apps being a lot less maintenance than mobile apps. If you are interested, I can share some of my Sass methodology I use. I use BEM with a pattern to target mobile and desktop in a single block.

2:14 AM, Tuesday September 22nd 2020

Industrial design is also a big interest of mine. Though only after seeing work by Peter Han and Scott Robertson. Before that, I saw a really cool Illustration based web-app design and it literally triggered this whole learning journey.

I agree with the job descriptions and overuse of frameworks. I'm looking for work at the moment and getting rejected for not knowing React/Vue even though I can solve their problems in vanilla. I could pick up React but I really don't like learning something without a decent reason (specific problem it's useful for), because it feels like being obsessed with grammar over the story itself.

I'm always interested in stuff like that. I like BEM (and yayy Sass), though I've found that lots of people miss the point with it, i.e. using "forminput--round" as a classname instead of "newslettersignup--email" and "newsletter__signup--password" which is more semantic. It makes sense why that happens though. The original examples have to be generic because a more specific example would alienate a huge chunk of the audience.

Using it with a pattern to target mobile and desktop is something I haven't heard of before, so definitely interested!

11:05 AM, Tuesday September 22nd 2020

You are so right. These frameworks are babies considering they have only been around for a short while. HR gets so obsessed with keywords. I couldn't get a job because I didn't have 5+ years with Angular 4 and Typescript.

Here is the pattern:

.paragraph

{

font-family: fonts.$standard-text-font, fonts.$ios-fallback-font-text;

font-size: 42px;

// css for screens larger than mobile devices

color: variables.$main-background-color;

// desktop

@media only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)

{

    font-size: 20px;

    color: red;

}

}

Basically this will compile into two seperate media queries due to the encapsulation. The idea is that you can change a specific class for mobile in desktop in one convenient area. I found this more convenient than relying on any special sass functions or mixins.

11:55 PM, Wednesday September 30th 2020

I've never seen dot notation in the context of CSS before. Thanks for sharing! :) I read an article on A List Apart that talked about preferring ems/rems over px for things like font-sizes, so that whoever is using the website can change the font size (pixels prevent that).

Have you watched "The Social Dilemma"? I just saw it on netflix yesterday and something that really stood out was: We are the product. Which means that social media platforms sell our attention to advertisers. Seems pretty obvious but not something I've really thought much about before.

I'm doing the dissections exercise here on drawabox atm, and really struggling with it. It's hard to keep motivated to do it because of that. So will start using a pomodoro timer each day to go through it.

How are things with you this week?

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