I’ve been reading about Dat Project, a distributed or decentralized way to securely share data. If you use Dat or Beaker Browser, you should hopefully be able to see this photo of Sedona, Arizona.
#100DaysofCode Day 18
I have been under the weather… I don’t talk about my life with disabilities here, and I might someday (this was created for people in my circles to follow my journey after all), but for now I’ll just cryptically say that I’ve just been a little unwell, and I’m proud to say I’ve kept up with regular coding, but not regular blogging.
At this point, I feel like the days of my #100DaysofCode are more of a guide rather than a true count. I’m okay with this. I hope you’re not here for a linear progression. 😉
Since the last post…
my Local Weather App is finished… I’m comfortable listing it on my Free Code Camp profile for now, but I would like to tweak it and make it my own startpage to remind me of how far I’ve come since I started coding. ♥
I am now working on The Whisker Shop (link is a placeholder as of this writing, but this is the current working draft), my spouse’s cat furniture business he’s been talking about starting for years. We’re working together as a crossover Coursera project, as he’s currently in the project management specialization. It’s been a lot of fun so far.
I’m also working on a Wikipedia Machine. I absolutely love working with APIs. They’re really frustrating and infuriating sometimes, but when they work, it’s so satisfying that it makes it all worthwhile. Practice, practice, practice.
#100DaysofCode Day 17
been working on my local weather app… it works! but it needs to be prettied up, and it needs to change based on the weather.
having some health troubles of late, but am on the mend, so I needed to take a few days off where I didn’t get much done, although I did make a point of at least glancing at code each day. (I wouldn’t count it as a Day of Code though.)
#100DaysofCode Day 16
Started working on a local weather app (which is subject to change/improvements without notice).
My goal was to communicate with the API today, which I did, but I’ll add some style next.
May end up taking a few days off from #100DaysofCode for medical reasons this week, but when I’ve had some bad days (I’m disabled), coding is something I can do more often than not… so it’ll be a good test to see what happens during an actual recovery-from-something-specific situation.
My weather app goals: the FCC project has specific requirements, but when I’m done, I want to fork it and make it so users can enter cities or airport codes (or something) to get weather that way.
#100DaysofCode Day 14 & 15
Finished my Quote Generator!
I had a little trouble finding a free API to get the job done… but then I got too picky about the quotes (most quotes in a lot of these collections are kind of terrible…?)
I plan on revisiting this someday and seeing about using something like the Goodreads API because then I could pull quotes from favorite authors or topics from books. 🙂
Next, I’ll be working on this Free Code Camp project to display the weather.
#100DaysofCode Day 14
Been working on this random quote generator, as a project for Free Code Camp. (Still a work in progress, as of this post.)
#100DaysofCode Day 13
For the last two days, I’ve been working on a website for The Whisker Shop, my spouse’s cat furniture store we’ve been talking about making for ages. This started out as my capstone for WD4E, but it’s turning into a pretty awesome project: my spouse is also doing a Coursera capstone, but it’s for the project management specialization. So he’ll be focusing on implementing the business’s online presence, and I’m focused on making the website happen. If anyone from Coursera ever reads this, I hope you get a kick out of this capstone crossover collaboration. 🙂
Here is the link to The Whisker Shop’s Codepen, and I post this with the caveat that it will change over time, and will eventually be migrated to a live site. Some features so far:
- Responsive design: mobile first, with an alternate wide screen view
- Currently only utilizes HTML and CSS
- Monochromatic color scheme for accessibility
- Lightbox for displaying photos
- Must pass validators, including accessibility validators
- Minimal JavaScript for simplicity and ease, with a noscript option
- I need to start taking some photos to display!
Wishlist and future plans:
#100DaysofCode Day 12
I fully admit I’m slacking with the documenting– I’m getting so wrapped up in whatever’s caught my eye that day, that I forget to jot it down here after I jot it down in my notebook when it’s time to walk away for the day. (as an aside: all this learnin’ has reminded me how much I love to just WRITE stuff in notebooks. I retain everything a lot better if I physically write it with a pen and paper. So far I’ve gone through half a box of pens, and countless random pens, several notebooks, and my hands are TIRED.)
I’ve been working with Django more. Current project: a CATalogue of my cats. (get it? CATalogue?) I’ve created the model and the view(s) and next on my agenda is to figure out how to get image files in on this action. Because what’s the point of cataloguing my cats, if I’m not including pictures with adorable captions and descriptions?
example: models.py
from django.db import models
class CatProfile(models.Model):
cat_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
# should change this to approximate year of birth:
cat_age = models.IntegerField("cat's age")
cat_desc = models.CharField(max_length=200)
def __str__(self):
return self.cat_name
def elderly(self):
return self.cat_age >= 10
elderly.short_description = 'Is this cat a senior?'
#100DaysofCode Day 11
I took the previous day‘s code for the Morse Translator and changed it to include list comprehension.
Through a series of unfortunate events, I had an unexpected allergic reaction two days in a row. One reaction often throws me for a loop for a day or two, requiring extra rest, but two in a row have left me feeling pretty wiped. It can take a short minute to get back in the swing of things when something like this happens (I partly blame the Benadryl hangover). This is one of life’s minor annoyances when living with chronic illness or disability. Some annoyances are bigger than others, of course. This could’ve been much worse, all things considered.
#100DaysofCode Day 10
I didn’t get too fancy with the Morse code converter… I ended up reading a whole lot of stuff about testing, though. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python has a great primer on code testing to start.
I really like testing.
I dropped today’s code on Github.