Personal Goals
Personal goals made open source for accessibility across computers I use, transparency, accountability, and versioning. Learn more about it here.
Overarching Goals for 2015: Just do it.
- Build quickly, ship things, and learn.
- Contribute to Open Source
- Share knowledge as often as possible
- Appreciate the creative & talented people in my life
- Use Vim + the keyboard more often
- Up my JS Game (patterns, node/io, angular)
- Performance-first advocacy
- Foster designer participation in OS projects
- Participate in conferences & community
- Use web components
- Be kinder
November 23, 2015
This Week's Focus: Thanksgiving
Things I'll do This Week:
- Design Eyeglass Site
- Work on building out Eyeglass site
- Scrollbar plugin (start it)
- Write post on all my recent ideas for bettering browsers
- Put photos from past few weeks onto Facebook
- Add service worker to una.im for offline cache
- Practice dotCSS talk (make sure its < 18 mins)
- Play with lightblue bean and offline web ideas
- Finish signing up for Roth IRA
- Touch up filters based on test page
- Calligraphy open source quote
- Sort out arttheweb.com copy
- Record audio for ClassyCSS Post
- Go to high school reunion
- Run Turkey Trot 8k
- Give talk at BeyondConf
Things I'll Do in the Future:
- Set up yeoman generator
- Learn about web scraping with node
- Get Source Maps Working — source maps & gulp
- Add search & tagging functionality to blog
- Read all of Google's Web Fundamentals
- Make Visual model of this for blog post
- Read Eloquent JavaScript
- Create Grand Budapest Hotel in CSS
- Read Google's Web Fundamentals
- Play with Velocity.js
- Learn about & try out Meteor.js & Famo.us
- Skillshare classes about hand lettering
- Look at Myth & Rework
- Learn about Phantom JS
- Use Polymer to build web components
- CodeSchool Javascript Best Practices course
- Learn about Require.js
- Look into Harp
- Play with slack bots and its node API
- Picturefill my portfolio
- Grunt Perf Budget or Page Speed Insights
- Build something cool with Arduino
- Create my own, cleaner reveal.js
- Submit an article to A List Apart
- Learn to use a screen reader to navigate the web
- Use CSSNext PostCSS plugin for something
- Use Kimono to scrape Sass notes site (Sass Me CLI)
- Try out Ractive
- Build web app that uses React.js
- Check out CSS compositing/blending modes
- Make something with Two.js
- Do this Functional Programming course
- Play around with CSS Transforms for fun