Thanks to our capacity to adapt to ever greater fame and fortune, yesterday’s luxuries can soon become today’s necessities and tomorrow’s relics.
Excerpt from The Funds, Friends, and Faith of Happy People by David G. Myers.
Today marks the end of my 21 Day challenge to get the basics of Javascript. The capstone project was to build a to-do list app, which I completed today. ToDo App Because I was focussed on learning Javascript, I used ChatGPT to write the boilerplate HTML and CSS. I tried
I spent some time today trying to understand in more detail how Javascript works with web pages. I'm doing this through a mini project: a barebones to-do list app. Since I'm focussed on Javascript, I've asked ChatGPT to provide the style sheet to make
A review and next steps... Today I completed Part I: Language from the Eloquent Javascript book. I skimmed the final two chapters, which felt less practical for me at this stage of the learning journey. The penultimate chapter covers async programming (something I'll pick up later, as its
Oh the quirks of JS! I continue to be reminded of why I much prefer Python. Javascript, it turns out, is far more forgiving when it comes to making mistakes with the language (this is why Typescript exists.) For example let's consider working with strings and numbers. Python