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Web Developer Diary 04
New Month, new web developer diary entry! This time itâs the fourth and Iâm writing about everything that happened in august!
Work
I remember from the post last month that I described july as rather slow and quiet. This month was quite the opposite. Lot of new projects, new opportunities and new things coming together. The groundwork I put it in the previous months absolutely paid off.
Itâs super interesting to see the effects of networking in action.
This reminds me of a pretty common saying: ânever burn bridgesâ. Itâs always great to keep communication open to people youâve previously engaged with. Who knows whatâs gonna happen in the future.
I also never thought that something like a simple twitter direct message could lead to a great time working on a cool project.
So august: busy month, working for different clients, on different projects. But still fun. I learned a lot of new things and this freelance journey is still an exciting ride.
Blog posts of the month
No other blog post published than the previous version of this series unfortunately.
Some great posts are almost done but need this half an hour additional fine-tuning before Iâm happy with them.
Couldnât find the time for that but this means Iâll publish more posts in september! Besides that, one of my recent posts, just hit publish got featured by two amazing people I follow for a long time already.
Jeremy featured it in his link collection Opens in new tab and Stefan introduced it in his newsletter web weekly #74 Opens in new tab . That made me really happy. Itâs awesome to hear that someone liked your writing.
TIL posts of the month
As I already said in the beginning of this pos, I learned some cool stuff this month and documented it as today-I-learned posts. The theme setting without js is probably my favorite one. And I've already integrated the checklist of the a11y project into my developing workflow.
- Faster page loads with early hints
- Setting a theme color without JavaScript
- Incomplete list of CSS mistakes
Everything else than web dev
đđ»ââïž Fitness & health
I moved a lot this month and could close my rings almost everyday! It's always cool to see that I were this active. Gives me a lot of confirmation why I feel better.
I pushed my workout time to the morning again. But not right out of bed as itâs been like for most of my twenties. My new workout time is right after my morning coffee, so Iâm a little more awake and energized and Iâm happy with it. This and a very cold shower are my favorit way to start into a new day.
I did not write my bike a lot as I wasnât in the mood that often this month. I miss it but it wasn't a priority. We're travelling a lot the next weeks, so we'll see when the next time on the bike will be.
đ Reading
Iâm in a reading flow and have a lot of fun reading books. Iâm still behind my reading challenge of reading 30 books this year, but who cares. 2 books a month is also a lot for me and I notice that more and more situations occure where I grab a book instead of my phone. And thatâs all I ever wanted.
This month Iâve read:
- City on fire - Don Winslow Opens in new tab
- All the light we cannot see - Anthony Doerr Opens in new tab
- Recursion - Blake Crouch Opens in new tab
All three of them are great books I can recommand. I think Iâm getting better in choosing books I might enjoy. Especially the last one made my mind go crazy. I won't spoil anything but the genre is science-fiction and the main topics are parallel-universes. I dreamed almost every night about it. What a book.
đč Video Games
Iâm dreading the ending of Elden Ring. Iâm still in front of the final boss and havenât touched it since. Instead I switched to Dark Souls 1 on my switch and itâs a lot of fun. Iâm curious when Iâll find the courage to actually finish Elden Ring. Or if Iâm going to complete Dark Souls 1 first.
đ Podcasts
Iâve listened to an episode of darknet diares where
Ed Skoudis shares super interesting stories from his job as a penetration tester â
. Some of them are absolutely insane and I couldnât believe them at first. Web Security is such a fascinating topic.
Thatâs it for august 2022 in the web developer diary series. See you next month!
I hope you enjoyed this post and learned something new. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter Opens in new tab or via Email Opens in new tab.
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