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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 2016: Small Dreams are Boring

  1. JavaScript!
  2. Write a Book
  3. Bridge the Designer/Dev Gap
  4. Build a Lot of Things
  5. Prioritize my Health

January 31, 2016

This Week's Focus: Book Org

Things I'll do This Week:

  • Start to build ecard generator (sort out architecture)
  • Make a few possible header covers for ecard generator
  • Finish image formats chapter (finish the research on it)
  • Start chapter on "How Are Images Rendered in the Browser"
  • Find a better solution for writing this book (markdown probably -- maybe put it on Github?)
  • Find a better software solution for book writing/editing
  • Deal with my Wordpress Travel site being hacked
  • Watch this video: Server Farm to Table
  • Check out this CodeSchool course on ES2015
  • Start thinking about talk for April
  • Finish Promises article
  • Write 5 more letters
  • Figure out what to do with js-together.com
  • Get Heiroglpyh oAuth Working
  • youmightnotneedjs.com <-- work on it
  • Create a sublime text plugin for SVG filters (SVG filter snippets)
  • Organize 2016 trips (planner) -- should I buy one?
  • Make Valentines
  • Reorg book outline into chapters with descriptions

Things I'll Do in the Future:

  • Be Familiar with all of Google's Web Fundamentals
  • Picturefill my portfolio
  • Build something cool with Arduino
  • Create my own, or work on helping build a cleaner JS presentation framework
  • Submit an article to A List Apart
  • Use CSSNext PostCSS plugin for something
  • Make a JavaScript Game
  • Finish an Algorithms online course
  • Play around with CSS Transforms for fun
  • Do something with youmightnotneedjavascript.com
  • New version of Happy Moments for 2016
  • Create a typeface
  • Build a project using ES6 best practices

Backlog: Side Projects & Other Ideas