I'm hoping to make a concerted effort to both meditate and journal every day. I began meditating this past year, and it has been a surprising boon to my overall well-being.
+1, hoping to somehow fit meditation in my life in 2018
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#521. Read a book a week. This is doable if i dedicate an hour a day to reading and I pick books that end up being page turners. 2. Play my electric guitar for an hour at least every other day. 3. Put $1000 a month away in my savings account. 4. Learn to implement some basic computer science algorithms in JavaScript. I don’t know how to do binary trees or hash tables and I’d like to be able to teach them at the Javascri…
>3. Put $1000 a month away in my savings account.
I don't want to assume your financial goals but you might want to talk to a financial planner before just sticking it in a savings account. Unless this is a repository for cash you need short term and with immediate access this is the worst place to put it.
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#53Mine is to write at least two articles per month on my blog http://mez.cl/a
Do you know you have 99/100 Google Page Speed score? Fix "Compressing http://mez.cl/a/ could save 1.4KiB (59% reduction)." and you're good.
Due to a personal project I've been quite obsessed with Google Page Speed lately and this could be the 2nd website I've come across in the wild to have a 100/100. Shoutouts to https://principles.design/ being the first one.
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#54- reduce reddit intake (and don't just replace with HN)
- read 2 books a month, I hit my goal of 1 book/month this year!
- become more present and mindful
- more physical exercise!
Also stop visiting /r/conspiracy and /r/collapse. It has taken a toll on my mental health and always puts me in pessimistic mood.
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#55Adhere to a filesystem... Right now all my files are a mess — often getting saved in random places... I know I can find them with a quick spotlight search, but it tends to bite me a bit when I need to locate a document from several months ago. That, and keeping a journal of some kind.
> Adhere to a filesystem
Oh man I feel this one. My backups are just dumps and my photos are totally un-maintainable. I would also like to figure out an easy phone/photo backup scheme where I don't have to import my photos once a month and then copy them to my harddrive. That's how my photos got in such a mess in the first place.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would learn react or angular first. I think the barrier to entry is the same (depending on your background) and you will get much more out of it. Beyond that, I would suggest learning how to take a psd website design and turn it into HTML. This is a great skills to have. Adding functionality on top of the HTML with react or angular is easy once you know how to break a website down into digestible pieces. That being…
I think jQuery is better for a beginner because there's less stuff there. It's closer to learning raw HTML/CSS/JS, which will serve you well in the future, once the next thing replaces react/angular. You can also just drop a single CDN URL into your web page without worrying about a JS dev environment, which is not simple to set up these days. That stuff is useful eventually, but I think it's distracting at first and…
Thanks. These observations confirm my asssumptions.
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#57"What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?"
Too not have a new year resolution. I don't need the start of a new year to make goals that I am already working on. I enjoy being flexible and free.
However I am committed to learning every day.
I have a plan to keep track of and hopefully I will achieve my dreams one day.
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#59Sleep.
I feel much of the difficulties that I face in life are due to not getting enough sleep. Sleep deprivation has made me less productive, less healthy, and most importantly, less happy.
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#60This is the year I'm finally going to learn front end, just enough to prototype. Don't roast me alive, but I'm thinking of starting with jQuery. It seems much more learnable for a web stack beginner, and probably serviceable for a long time to come for someone who mainly prototypes ideas that need an elemental gui.
jQuery is more of an afternoon thing.. 1-2 days and it's mostly mastered. You just need to know how to use selectors.. and the most common methods like html(), ajax(), post(), get(), text(), css(), addClass(), removeClass(), toggle(), -- but really just being able to select an item on the page, and then google what else you need to know for what you want to accomplish...
I'd recommend learning VueJs -- It works well with laravel, not sure what backend you've worked with but I'm sure you can plugin any.
It has a LOT of articles/support online. There's a discord chat for more help. Learn the basics of jquery for sure (I still use it a ton) but something like Vuejs or even React would beef up your resume quite a bit.