18 votes

today is a good day. how ya doin?

Posted by Bishop
Tags: chat, casual, ask.survey

emotionally abusive ex-girlfriend tried to reach out.

blocked her number.

started looking for therapists.

i started following through FreeCodeCamp (more tech talk (MERN) at the bottom - i gots questions)

i started flossing two weeks ago.

i've been consistent this past week with learning japanese

and right now i got one of my comfy outfits on, chilling at the house, and i just made a french press with some beans from a roaster i used to always buy from back when i lived downtown.

i'm feelin' alright today. it's gonna be a few more months until i get where i want, but for now, i'm good.

how bout you - how you doin?

(if you stuck around for the tech stuff - here's that)

  1. what's a good book to follow up EloquentJS? i'm reading through that now, and i really want to get a good feel for the language itself. i know how to get something built, but i don't know how my tools work - and that's an issue for me.

  2. on a similar note - what are the best books on React? i've got a 2017 copy of Fullstack React, but someone told me that's outdated by this point, and i can't exactly afford the 2018 copy right now. anything else i should keep an eye out/save up for?

  3. and lastly, best reading on CSS3? i know (again) a good enough amount of Bootstrap to be able to get something up and running, but i want to get better at vanillaCSS, css animations, and making sure that my site is responsive and supported across across all browsers.

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  1. poweruserplus
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    watching the super bowl and eating lots of food and having a good time with the fam (mom dad brother cousin) for the first time in years after insanely difficult times and everything falling apart...

    watching the super bowl and eating lots of food and having a good time with the fam (mom dad brother cousin) for the first time in years after insanely difficult times and everything falling apart over and over. it's miraculous.

    there is nothing in the world more important than those people... you know who they are. do everything you can to make things right with them and yourself and sleep comes easy.

    fuck the pats

    5 votes
  2. Hypersapien
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    I've been something of a hoarder or pack rat for a good part of my life. I'm finally purging a bunch of the crap I don't need. I realized that I was keeping a lot of it because of the connection...

    I've been something of a hoarder or pack rat for a good part of my life. I'm finally purging a bunch of the crap I don't need. I realized that I was keeping a lot of it because of the connection it gave me to my past, but I finally made the connection that the past it connected me to was kind of crap and has probably been feeding my depression. A lot of this has been at the urging of my girlfriend. She's wonderful and I want her to be comfortable living with me, and there just hasn't been enough room here for her. What's worse is that my depression had started infecting her. That was the last straw. I couldn't allow that to happen, and it forced the realization of what I've been doing and made it that much easier to start making positive changes.

    4 votes
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    clerical_terrors
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    I send out a couple of emails to test the waters on finding a thesis project, need to start putting something together soon. Spent the rest of the day reading papers and shitposting when I got...

    I send out a couple of emails to test the waters on finding a thesis project, need to start putting something together soon.
    Spent the rest of the day reading papers and shitposting when I got bored, which was a lot because papers are dry as desert sand.

    techies tuff

    Yo don't worry too much about books. EloquentJS is more then enough to get started. Maybe get an O'Reilley book on React if you want. There's also a bunch of free ones here

    but i don't know how my tools work - and that's an issue for me.

    You mean like your development environnement?

    and lastly, best reading on CSS3? i know (again) a good enough amount of Bootstrap to be able to get something up and running, but i want to get better at vanillaCSS, css animations, and making sure that my site is responsive and supported across across all browsers.

    Take a look at CSS Mastery maybe, otherwise just test some stuff out. CSS animations can do some neat stuff but most practical applications I've seen are usually very simple, don't crack your head open over it. Just do stuff.

    3 votes
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      1. clerical_terrors
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        I don't really have a thesis project yet, one thing I'm looking at is deceptive AI but I still need to hear back from the professor if there'll be some way I can slot into that research project. I...

        I don't really have a thesis project yet, one thing I'm looking at is deceptive AI but I still need to hear back from the professor if there'll be some way I can slot into that research project.

        but given that my focus was on building and not learning, there are still a lot of basics I've managed to skip over.
        like just recently i learned how to render components dynamically with .map()
        just today i learned that you can pass a setState function to a child component in order to access (for example) form data in a parent.

        I dunno about other people in here but I've done a lot of coding, including paid work, with documentation of base functions open on a browser tab near-all-the-time, even if I learned all of JavaScript's basic functions tomorrow I probably wouldn't remember half of them. Don't be too ashamed of rediscovering base functions over time, it's all part of it.

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  4. patience_limited
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    Just got back from a 3-day weekend of downtime in Miami, dreading the plunge back into the maelstrom at work tomorrow. We had some amazing food and drink (though I had to boot and rally from a bad...

    Just got back from a 3-day weekend of downtime in Miami, dreading the plunge back into the maelstrom at work tomorrow. We had some amazing food and drink (though I had to boot and rally from a bad oyster), no-agenda relaxation, and lounging around people-watching.

    I'm starting to do research on what it would take to quit corporate life and hang my shingle out as a consultant.

    3 votes
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    biox
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    had a panic attack last night and vented to an old friend, felt zen after that. played half life two today, saw four more close friends. realized how lucky i am to have such a good support circle....

    had a panic attack last night and vented to an old friend, felt zen after that. played half life two today, saw four more close friends. realized how lucky i am to have such a good support circle. felt better.

    3 votes
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      1. biox
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        hey, thanks for lending me a hand anyway, i really appreciate it. i've had a rough couple of weeks and this comment cheered me up. weird what the internet do.

        hey, thanks for lending me a hand anyway, i really appreciate it. i've had a rough couple of weeks and this comment cheered me up. weird what the internet do.

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  6. starchturrets
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    I'm doing fine — a lot of things could be better, but they could also be much worse. Also, good luck with your learning! I'm also trying to get into (basic) JavaScript. Lots of bugs, headaches,...

    I'm doing fine — a lot of things could be better, but they could also be much worse.

    Also, good luck with your learning! I'm also trying to get into (basic) JavaScript. Lots of bugs, headaches, and confusion, but whenever something actually works, it's super fun.

    2 votes