Weeknotes 26:16

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Week of April 12–18

  • It was a shorter work week as I took off on Friday. My dad came into town to see my youngest perform in As You Like It at Chattanooga State.
  • I visited the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center with my dad on Friday. My dad served in the Navy during Vietnam. We enjoyed the exhibits and it led to some conversations about his service. I enjoyed getting to spend some time with my dad.
  • We saw our daughter perform twice, Friday and Saturday night. She was the lead role of Rosalind, which was a dream role for her. She commanded the stage and I am really proud of her. This was her ninth Shakespeare play.
  • I continued to have more smaller tasks this week. I built out a new landing page on Tuesday and then came back to certain portions of the page to edit or rework on Wednesday and Thursday.
  • I worked on a freelance project on Tuesday night as we received client feedback.

The Layout Maestro endorsement

Ahmad Shadeed had reached out to see if I would be willing to write a testimonial for The Layout Maestro course. He had seen that I had posted about it last week in my weeknote. I was glad to recommend the course.

The Layout Maestro is unique among the current courses offered. First off, this is the only course that I am aware of that addresses CSS layout. Second, Ahmad doesn’t just dive into syntax but helps you to develop the mindset of a front-end developer.

This equips you to make layout decisions on your own projects. Everyone who takes this course will benefit from Ahmad’s clever solutions that combine several modern CSS techniques for more flexible and resilient products. Even an experienced CSS developer has plenty to learn and take away from this course.

I got some more good stuff out of the course and immediately applied what I learned to a layout I had been working on. I had an “aha” moment about flex-basis. I may have learned this before but forgotten. But I also made the connection with a similar Grid technique of using auto-fill. Combined with flex-wrap: wrap, I could make my layout more flexible. Normally I would use Grid in this instance but I wanted me second row to have the item centered if there was just one item and you cannot do that with Grid.

Articles I read

What I watched

Books I am reading

Walking

  • Sunday – 3.68 miles in 1 hour 8 minutes
  • Monday – 1.28 miles in 24 minutes
  • Tuesday – 1.28 miles in 24 minutes

What I played

MLB The Show 23 (Orioles) – I went 3-2 this week. Both the games I lost were 1 run games against the Guardians and Giants.

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