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Melanie Sumner
Unapologetically awesome.

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Wait maybe that was clickbait. Oh well.

Has anyone noticed that we are not just writing thoughts anymore? Everything is “10 simple ways to….” or “You won’t believe the results!”

I was listening to The Web Ahead podcast, and Jen’s guest was lamenting that while there are a plethora of pieces being written about how X is right and everything else is wrong, we keep forgetting that the web industry is an incredibly young industry.

Then he said something that really got to me- no one just writes down what they’re doing at that point, to sort of keep track. I realized he’s correct- we’re so focused on branding and metrics and conversions that we are forgetting why humans write/journal/blog in the first place- to keep track.

It almost makes me want to buy some leather-bound notebook and a writing desk with an elegant chair. Almost.

Instead, I have set a weekly reminder on my calendar, to come here and write down the technology in the past week, and tag it so I can look back and watch the evolution of work. It’s probably not going to be thought-provoking, or inspiring, or interesting…it will just be. And since being is the entire point, it will be enough. ;)

  • EmberJS for an internal-use, desktop-only app. (this one pays the bills)
  • Material Design Lite (MDL) — branching out from my Bootstrap roots and giving something else a go — developing UI.
  • Using AWS for this same app, although I’m pretty frustrated with how I can never seem to connect property and constantly am saying “OMG JUST LET ME GIT PULL ORIGIN ALREADY.” However I am confident that I will get better at this & this frustration should lessen.
  • I signed up for an Heroku account so I can learn that.
  • I’m a GRID beta tester, and have been trying it out, but so far I don’t like it. It puts too much pink on me (and anyone who knows me, knows how I feel about pink).
  • I bought a book to teach myself Jenkins but I haven’t started reading it yet. However it was my goal to read it before March 1, so I don’t have much time left before I fail that goal, & since I don’t like failing, I will probably read it in the next couple of weeks.
  • I’m reading about how assets will be delivered with http2 and it feels like 1997 all over again and I don’t like it. ALSO WHY IS ALL THIS INLINE CSS HAPPENING MAKE IT STOP. I feel like I just finally got through to everyone to quit writing inline CSS already and now it’s like, oh hey we do this again. BECAUSE THERE WAS A REASON WE MADE YOU QUIT DOING IT BEFORE. Really does no one remember what it’s like to inherit code from someone who loved inline styles?!!! /endRant #sorrynotsorry

And that’s my #webhistory for today.