Week of
January 10th 2022
Side Projects
- Published Building a Raycast Extension Link
- Wistia Raycast extension approved on the Raycast Store Link
Week of
February 15th 2021
Interesting Things
- Learned about the
ping tag Link
Week of
February 8th 2021
Interesting Things
- Cool effect created with clip path, now supported in all major browsers Link
Week of
February 1st 2021
Side Projects
- Refining work for number animating component. First time using
useRef and I finally understand when to use it.
Interesting Things
- Capture node screenshot with Chrome dev tools Link
- Mac app that allows you change the app icons Link
- Repository of alternate Mac icons Link
- Configuring event listeners Link
- NPM 7 released with support for yarn.lock Link
Week of
January 25th 2021
Side Projects
- Started working on next video recreating Robinhood number animation
- Using Framer Motion for the first time
Interesting Things
- NextStripe: Simplified server side Stripe + Next.js integration Link
- Tell the browser where to word break, if necessary Link
- You can use
resize: both to make arbitrary elements resizable Link
Week of
January 18th 2021
Side Projects
- Recorded and published YouTube short “Fake Parallax Image Scrolling”
- Recorded YouTube short “Emoji as favicon”
Interesting Things
- Notion icon set Link
- Tool that allows you to create SVGs out of tweets Link
- Use an emoji as a favicon in one line of code Link
- Aspect ratio CSS property coming in Chrome 88 Link
Week of
January 11th 2021
Side Projects
- Pushed new updates to Contact page. Implemented third party form which was a bit tricky in React. Might make a video about this.
Week of
December 28th 2020
Side Projects
- Recorded “Building an image gallery” for upcoming YouTube video
- Call with William to integrate with Instagram API
- Built out Film Packages and Meet Will sections of upcoming sarmientomedia.com website
Week of
December 21st 2020
Side Projects
- Working on William’s website—added testimonial cards, research Instagram and Vimeo APIs
- Learned about using
background-attachment to do a parallax scrolling effect with image backgrounds
Interesting Things
- Well something just happened with React Server Component Link
Week of
December 14th 2020
Side Projects
- Recorded new short YT video — “UI Debugging Hack: Use CSS to Create Debug Views” Link
- Discovered the Apple Clips app which is truly a game changer for capturing short form video content AND adding captions all at the same time Link
Interesting things
- Vercel released a conference kit that powered their Next.js conference Link
- Font editor in Chrome dev tools Link
- Building an Image Gallery with Flexbox Link
Week of
December 7th 2020
Side Projects
- Recorded “How I got started” YouTube video
- Recorded podcast episode where we talk about debugging
- Start on React image gallery component
Interesting Things
- How to craft a business oriented developer portfolio that stands out Link
- Interesting to note how other embeddables work Link
- Thread on how to get started in a new codebase Link
- Natural shadows in JS Link
- Tailwind + Next.js rfc Link
- List of Google Fonts Link
- Build a blog with Next.JS backed by Notion Link
Week of
November 30th 2020
Side Projects
- Published first YouTube video
- Record, edit & publish shorts video
- Record and submit “Deploying Storybook” for EmberMap
Interesting Things
- New AWS amplify stuff released
- Gumroad getting rid of location based pay Link
- Open source Firebase alternative Link
- Recap of hooks over the past two years Link
- Some interesting things happening in the space of build tooling (ie sky pack)
Week of
November 23rd 2020
Side Projects
- Start on marketing website for William
- Record and edit first YouTube video - “Adding Persistent Headers to a Next.js App” Link
Interesting Things
- Sticky heading padding Link
- Trick for fading in modals more cleanly Link
- Sizing tap targets for mobile Link
- Three line config for VSCode Link
- TypeScript 4.1 released Link
- Curated list of Google Font sLink
- JavaScript ES12 features coming in 2021 Link
- Notion doc explaining Git and GitHub Link
Week of
November 16th 2020
Work
- Made a month at Wistia 🎉
- Spent some time on the backend side of things fixing a bug in Rails land. Long time since I worked on some Ruby code.
Side Projects
- Recorded podcast episode talking about salary in the workplace.
- Record and edit video on persistent headers in Next.js
- Record video for first PTYA first homework assignment
Interesting Things
- Fancy new Tailwind v2 website Link
- Initial MacBook M1 benchmarks are very impressive Link
- Why have I not been doing all my forms like this? Link
Week of
November 10th 2020
Work
- Replaced some JS code used for dynamic column alignment with a simple
<table/>. Been a while since I needed to use that, but it came in handy. - Working through several bug fixes. Each one teaches me more and more about the codebase.
Side Projects
- Tweaking light/dark mode styling for personal site homepage
- Deployed update homepage Link
- Updated personal site to Tailwind v1.9 and to Next.js v10
Interesting Things
- If you create a separate style sheet for dark mode, you can tell the browser to tell download those separately Link
- Force website into light/dark mode in Chrome developer tools Link
- Icon library for Big Sur Link
Week of
November 2nd 2020
Work
- Did a bunch of pair programming at work. This is hands down the most I’ve done at any job and it’s been great for onboarding.
Side Projects
- Recorded podcast episode talking about take home interview projects and how to get the most out of it
- First time editing a podcast episode! Gave it a shot in Garageband and it worked out reasonably well
Week of
October 26th 2020
Work
- Wistia Podcasts launched to the public
- Paired with several folks on the team most of the week.
- Lots of reading and learning about HLS video
Side Projects
- Signed up for Ali Abdaal’s YouTube course. Excited to get started and learn how to build a channel.
- Self organizing + getting together with Tulio/Boutte to explore launching a podcast.
Week of
October 19th 2020
Work
- First week at Wistia! 🎉
- Deployed my first bug fix
- Getting to know my new teammates
Side Projects
- Recorded next video in the Storybook series for EmberMap: “Working with the Actions addon”
- Messing around with different styles for my personal site homepage