Mad Times » Tiny Challenges http://tomecat.com/madtimes "To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart." - Wendell Berry Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:21:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 March challenge http://tomecat.com/madtimes/index.php/2016/03/01/march-challenge/ http://tomecat.com/madtimes/index.php/2016/03/01/march-challenge/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2016 02:46:34 +0000 jeffy http://tomecat.com/madtimes/?p=542 Regular readers will recall that I was doing a “tiny challenge” for February that I dubbed “Clear the desk”. That actually went okay until the physical desk was clear and then things got abstract and difficult to share. And then all the kitty badness. But overall, I declare it a success since my desk has been and remains visible and useful.

For March, the community challenge is a doodle thing. I have no particular objection to that, but I’m not ready for something quite that whimsical. So for my March challenge I’m going to spend a little time each day refreshing my web development skills. I’m starting with a udemy.com course I got cheap in a bundle last month. The Complete Web Developer Course covers a whole bunch of web tech stuff, some of which I’ve known before at various levels of competence, and some of which I’ve never used.

As in February, I’ll tweet my progress, hopefully with links to samples of whatever nonsense websites flow from my fingers.

Today I upgraded my old iMac (20-inch Mid-2007) from Mavericks to El Capitan. I did that mostly because 1password wasn’t supporting what I had and not having it was seriously cramping my style. Then I went through the first four lectures of the course which included signing up for the included free hosting account (which I don’t really need since I’ve got a server, but decided to use so I don’t wander down compatibility and configuration ratholes.) Behold my not-a-web-site.

ETA: Oops, I need a hash tag. How about #webbing. Yep, that works. On twitter it’s all about climbing and upholstery.

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