Today’s activity is research.

I’m a little nervous about what is coming next because this was the first time that I saw the syntax for templates and custom containers.

I’m going to have to read it again before I go to bed and hope that it makes more sense in the morning.

Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷

Day 2: morning beverage

I bought an aeropress years ago and it’s really made a difference in how I enjoy coffee.

Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷

Day 1: Close up

This is a pic of what I see when I look straight down. So I decided that I’m going work hard to see my toes again.

Today, I was reading reddit like I normally do and I came across a quote on the GetMotivated forum.

I think it fits with what I’m doing with Hacking with Swift program.

MarsEdit has a wonderful feature that allows you to take a snippet from a website and start a post to put in your own page.

When I use it, I feel like I’m closer to some of my favorite blog writers.

There is this problem… I told myself that I’m not going to do another technical project until I finish the Hacking with SwiftUI challenge.

But… I think going a little into customizing some software shouldn’t count, right?

SO…

I was looking at the text that MarsEdit brings in and started thinking about the template for it.

It just didn’t feel like that was really the style that I was going for. It kept nagging me… Is this the most semantic way to show a block quote?

Boom! I started a search on DuckDuckGo and fell down a rabbit whole with questions about <blockquote>, <cite>, and even the <q> which I’ve been using in the last several posts¹.

I’ve been going back and forth with MDM, html5doctor, and w3 schools. I finally just went to the w3.org site and will be happy to use the following.

I would spend the time learning how to put the raw code into this post but I spent an hour looking into this.

Project 2, Part 2 almost sounds like a title for an action parody, but it’s the title for today’s work. I think the following really captures what I’m feeling:

Oprah Winfrey once said, “do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” By the end of this 100 days course I hope you’ll be able to do exactly what you want, but in the meantime stick with it – you’re learning key skills here!

To be honest, the first app does looks very basic in the middle of the project and I feel like I’m fighting my own ego in the fact that my application isn’t on the same level that you’d see in the app store. Then I have to take a step back.

I’m just learning!

Of course my app isn’t going to look that great!

If this is what I can do in a few weeks with only a couple hours every day, then the things I’ll be able to do after 100 days will be better. The things after a year will be better still.

It’s all part of growing and I that’s why I’m here.

In the end, I think I made a pretty good starter.

I’m fresh off the high of creating my first application and I SO want to charge ahead. I keep thinking “It’s a marathon, it’s a marathon, it’s a marathon.”

Today’s activity is pretty fun in that it allows me to experiment with colors. I spent some time just messing around with how to expand my application.