Keeping track of what I'm learning about on any given day in 2023. You can see my commits and look at my code, but it doesn't give you any sort of context about what I'm actively pursuing. Hence, this doc.
My first task of the day is to spend some time in Udemy. I'll be spending some time on learning advanced git/github stuff, and getting re-started on the learning for getting my Azure AZ-900 certification. Those are my primary points of attack. I'll work on some code later for the Todoist/Twitter social accountability script that I've been needing to wrap-up this month (so I can move on to other things).
Lately, I've been thinking about going after an MBA. I should. That will require me to go finish off my BA -- one class -- that I should've done decades ago.
I finished the Git & Github course on Udemy yesterday. Today, I had to work the second job, so I didn't get much coding time in. Played around with datetime in python a bit...but I'll spend more time on it tomorrow. I'd like to get this little script I'm working on done before the end of the month.
Had the kiddos today and a bunch of life stuff got in the way. Spent maybe 10 minutes fucking around with python code. Did a quick commit to github for the consistency. Will do better tomorrow.
I took the day off from coding today so I could spend time with the kiddos after work. I did watch some Udemy videos on Azure AZ-900 certification, though, so the day wasn't completely devoid of learning.
Wasn't as productive as I'd have liked -- I opted to spend more time with the kids and less time working. Did work through some more training for Azure AZ-900 certification.
Started building out a new plugin for Wordpress (yay, PHP!) to handle the extra content types I want to add to my personal site. Spent some time in Udemy on the AZ-900 stuff.
More Udemy/AZ-900 stuff today. Hoping to get that wrapped up by EOD tomorrow. Got some python code to sling tonight. I need to buckle down on that.
Lots of errands had to be run today, but I did manage to make some serious headway on the date functions in my Twitter/Todoist script I'm writing in python.
More progress on the Twitter/Todoist script.
Twitter/Todoist script work. I found some fuckery in my datetime setup, where after 9pm, my script thinks it's a different date. I've got that resolved. Current script works if the full character-length on the generated tweet is less than 288. I need to build out the logic for breaking this thing up. And having it reply to the first tweet so it builds a thread, as opposed to three separate tweets.
Chasing down the date glitch some more. I took a break from chasing that glitch -- for some reason after 8pm local time, there's some fuckery with converting from UTC to local time and that's skewing the results of the app. I did however, chew on other parts of this script, like the part of breaking the list down into a series of tweets, and figuring out the Twitter API so that I can post the series of tweets as a thread, rather than as three unrelated tweets. So I'm still making headway. I also spent some time on Udemy today with the AZ-900 course prep.
My subconscious worked on the "break the list into a series of tweets" problem last night and figured out a much more elegant way to do it. I'll be implementing that today...and then going back to deal with the bullshit with the UTC/Local fuckery. (Should I be swearing in what amounts to my portfolio? Probably not. But here I am.)
Thought I had everything dialed-in and ready to go with my Todoist/Twitter script, but I'm getitng some errors re: tweet length. Guess what I learned today? Emoji count as more than one character. Ooops. Going to have to tweak some stuff with the line length calculations. Blasting through more AZ-900 certification prep today, too.
Got that python script working as-planned. Did a bunch of AZ-900 studying today.
More AZ-900 studying.
Mom in hospital after a fall in her basement. No studying today.
Digging in to making my WP Littlefoot plugin for handling footnotes.
Plowing through more Azure AZ-900 certification coursework.
Finished the AZ-900 Certification Prep on Udemy. Tonight, tearing into some stuff on TailwindCSS, and doing some code work on WP Littlefoot.
Today was a bit nuts -- had to work the desk job and work the side hustle (bike shop). Did kick off learning TailwindCSS (thanks, Udemy), and spend some more time getting acquainted with Azure. So, uh, yay? Tomorrow, probably more Tailwind, plus I have some freelance stuff I have to blast through. Scheduled my AZ-900 certification exam for next Tuesday.
Did some Tailwind stuff in Udemy, also cranked out a simple PHP plugin for a client site that replicates some functionality done by another plugin that's got some security issues. Pretty pleased with that. Because it's a client project, it's in a private repo. Sorry, kids.
TailwindCSS coursework.
TailwindCSS coursework.
TailwindCSS coursework.
Nada.
Took the Microsoft Azure AZ-900 (Fundamentals) exam and passed. So I've got my first certification.
More work with TailwindCSS. Working through the basics, have a few projects that are part of the course, and then I'm going to use it to build up a new template for a Wordpress site I want to build.
Taking a break today.
Registered for Microsoft Build in Seattle next month. Gonna be pretty awesome. Spun up another VM to run a couple of Wordpress sites on.
Debugging the Wordpress server, getting the old site restored, and getting that ready to go. Made some edits to the girlfriend's site theme to add some functionality that was not previously there.
Taking a little downtime due to issues with mom's health.
TailwindCSS course: basics.
TailwindCSS course: basics. Azure AZ-104 certification prep coursework.
TailwindCSS course: basics.
TailwindCSS course: basics.
TailwindCSS course: basics.
TailwindCSS course: mini-projects.
TailwindCSS course: mini-projects.
TailwindCSS course: mini-projects wrap-up.
AZ-104 coursework in prep for certification. More TailwindCSS work, this time on the bigger projects. Also did some AZ-104 certification prep, and read up on HTMX.
Didn't get anything done due to having to deal with mom's health issues again. This could become a recurring theme for 2023, unfortunately.
Did some more AZ-104 certification work and some more TailwindCSS work. Hoping to get the latter wrapped-up by the end of the month, but who knows?
Here's the shortlist of the things that I'm curious about and/or about to tee-up and start stuffing my brain with:
- potentially getting an MBA
- TailwindCSS
- HTMX
- MermaidJS
- Docker/Kubernetes
- ReactJS
- more python stuff