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White Mustang Oh my God I'm so overwhelmed. Everything is changing and I'm so overwhelmed. I'm in the middle of a line management change and I'm starting a bootcamp at the same time. And it's wonderful. And I absolutely love every single person that I am working with.  And I just love it (the concept of starting a bootcamp).  I just love it. Music video for 'White Mustang' by Lana del Rey But it is all so so much for me and it is all so overwhelming. And I don't know how to cope with change so well. I mean, in a way I do. I survived and worked through the very sad collapse of Bulb. And I have survived and worked through changing jobs 3 times in 2 years - and that doesn't include changes in teams.  And I do know one way to cope with change: buying notebooks. Buying Notebooks I love to write. Can't you tell?  I would never have written so many posts on my blog if I didn't live writing.  But more so than that. Writing is there for me 24/7. It al

You're The Best Pilot We Ever Had "You're the best pilot we ever had". This is from the magical line in the movie where Coop finds the secret NASA station and finds out he is going into space! 👾👾👾👽 I'm quoting Interstellar! I love that line - it inspires me so much. It inspires me to be really thorough in my learning so that I can be the best possible Software Engineer that I can be. Back-End Validation  "No matter how complete the front-end validation of a website or application seems, validations must also be completed on the back-end or server side" It says that: "Front-end validations are easy to bypass - a malicious user can simply turn off JavaScript on their browser, for example".  There's also a potential for "middleman attacks in which data is changed after the requested is submitted by the user but before it arrives at the server".  Huh what? How does that even WORK? I didn't know that that was even POSSIBLE. &qu

Phase 09 - Sombrero Phase 09 - Sombrero is an amazing new song that I have discovered from Solar Fields. Totally obsessed with it.  Totally can't stop dancing to it. Also, I love music that just makes me DANCE! When you have no choice but to do dance - when your body just dances in and of itself - then this is the best kind of music. I am in big big trouble with myself. I am in big big trouble with myself for not believing in myself more. For not seeing my gift, my passion, my potential. Life is hard enough anyway. Life is harder when you don't believe in your potential.  Life is harder when you don't see - well no - when I don't see: How lucky I am.  I quite literally have something in my life that I live for. And I love it so, so, soo much - and it's my job.  It's my ACTUAL DAY JOB. I wanted this more than anything else in the world. And now I've got it. How gifted I am. I have this AMAZING neurodivergent brain which is so good at patterns and so good at n

Dance of Shiva 'Dance of Shiva' by Karmacosmic is absolutely one of my favourite songs of all time. I mean... the joy... contained in there... is just magnificent. It's just magnificent! Introduction to Form Validation Websites require a lot of information to function - things like our usernames, our passwords, our 'friends/followers/connections', 'likes', credit card information, and so on. These all have to be filled out by users on the front-end (or provided).  User information is traditionally collected using HTML "forms". "If you ever entered text in a website, selected options on a list, or checked a box and then hit enter (/pressed button), YOU LIKELY FILLED OUT AND SUBMITTED AN HTML FORM!!!!".  Wow. "The process of checking that the information submitted through a form adheres to expectations is called form validation". Why Validate Forms? Most data once submitted into forms is stored by a website or a web app.  It's

I hope you, get to know me WHY AM I SUCH A MUG This is CSS AND HTML talking to me as usual "I hope you, get to know me", WHY DIDN'T I TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY IN THE FIRST PLACE. I MEAN DON'T GET ME WRONG. I DID.  I did take them seriously. But why didn't I take them MORE SERIOUSLY? I was so embarrassed and so ashamed to 'only' be doing HTML and CSS but that is a mistake. They are proper, real, serious programming languages and you need to know them PROPERLY. At least if you want to be a front-end dev that is - which I do - MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD!!!  How are you going to do React without them? Yes you can do it but you won't be as successful and you won't be able to debug as well.  And how are you going to build accessible websites without them? This blog post's title quotes Weyes Blood's 'Cardamom' once again

Are there still beautiful things? I am so so grateful for everything in my life.  And for the very first time in my life I can honestly say that this is true. I am so so grateful for the people who I have in my life and who I feel so supported by. I feel so supported. And here is a picture of the Lac de Longemer in France. P.S. I'm referencing 'Seven' by Taylor Swift. It is the first song I ever heard off of folklore and it changed my life forever. I just love it. Are there still beautiful things? I love programming so so much. I love my job so so much. I still can't believe that this dream has come true. From where I started this blog to where I am today - I still can't believe how much this dream has come true. But as my manager always tells me, it hasn't come true yet. There is still so much more to work for. And I can't wait. I can't wait to do it. I can't wait to build. I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait to build. Really.  I can&

Down By The Lakes "Bold was the waitress on our three year trip getting lunch down by the lakes/ She said I looked like an American Singer" - Taylor Swift, Invisible String Invisible String was one of my favourite lockdown songs.  The whole of Folklore was just incredible. It sounds like the forest where I am from. It sounds like the forest that I just grew up in. It sounds incredible, I mean just incredible. CodePens Here is a CodePen on mouse events: CodePen And here is a CodePen on keyboard events: CodePen That's it for now, but I look forward to continuing to build my Piano Keys event listener project tomorrow. Event Listeners Keyboard Events "Keyboard events can have unique properties assigned to their event objects like the .key property that stores the values of the key pressed by the user." We did it for the Right Reasons And all of a sudden I remember everything. I remember how I wanted it so so badly. There was nothing I wanted more in the world than t

Second Sun I've been listening through Spotify's coding mode playlist. Some of them are so good and really hit the spot - so I've been adding them all to a new playlist. One of the songs I loved is "Second Sun" by Nils Hoffman and Ben Böhmer. Why did I love it? I don't know.  It's just so relaxing. And so beautiful. And so soft. And so soothing. And so beautiful. Here's Some CodePens Including the new one on Removing Event Listeners , my first topic of the day!!!  Event Object Properties Wait, WHAT???! EVENTS ARE OBJECTS? From my coding course with Codecademy:  "JavaScript stores events as Event objects with their related data and functionalities and methods. When an event is triggered, the event object can be passed as an argument to the event handler function." Wait, WHAT??! I think that my brain JUST EXPLODED!!!  Here is my CodePen on Event Object Properties: => => Event Object Properties <= <=

The Secret Staircase The secret staircase is a staircase that I have located at the very very back of my town.  I spotted it from the Downs when I was hiking along them. It feels so great to be outside again and hiking.  A combination of injuries, illness and other factors in my life have meant that it has been months if not years since I have been able to do proper hiking especially beyond my home in Luxembourg. So it has really meant the whole wide world for me to be able to go outside again. Also, here's a picture of me at a Codebar.io coding workshop a few weeks ago. Soooo cool: Some CodePens First I FINALLY finished the one on Traversing the DOM. I also finally FINISHED THIS ONE AT LAST WOOHOO . On styling an element. The Secret Staircase Here is the best image that I can find of it.  Taken from Google maps. It's beautiful - isn't it? Especially when seen from much higher up. And the views from there are just ASTOUNDING. DOM Events with JavaScript After a specific even

 Can You Read My Mind, I've Been Watching You Yep! I'm quoting Ethel Cain as usual and the song is still 'Crush' and my preferred version of this song is still 'Crush - Stripped'. UX and UI Because I want to be a front-end engineer I was inspired to do some UX/UI work over the weekend. Here is what I've learned. Design Design is a problem-solving process which is intentional. It is focused on planning or making something for a specific use or purpose. Understanding UI and UX This helps us to focus our work on the experience of the user. It also helps us to ensure our products meet the real needs of our users in an intuitive and a pleasant way.  UI or User Interface Design Focuses on the visual design of the interface. So it focuses on the interface that the users interact with the product or the system through. UX or User Experience Design This focuses on the holistic experience around a product or a service. It takes into consideration the user, the system,

Couldn't Fight To Save Your Life, But You Look So Cool I have a new obsession. It's called "Crush" by Ethel Cain and although there are two version, I'm obsessed with the 'Stripped' version. It's so so beautiful. Such a beautiful song. Back To Work  I have finished my giant secret coding project, although it is hopefully a prelude to the real secret coding project which will be quite literally about 75x bigger if it comes through. I want to code space. I like to code space. I like to code aliens. I want to work for NASA. Even though this is not really in line with the dream of renewable energy tech... it can all be a part of it right? Hopefully I get to work for NASA one day. Back To Work... Again Anyway where was I. I need to get back on top of all of my work with JavaScript and the DOM etc. What this entails: Finish off my CodePens Do a quiz (will probably pair on this one) Do a code along video - I'm dreading this - it's 20 minutes - might t

White Dress From Yosemite to White Dress Today is my 100th blog post, and I would like to devote all of it to gratitude (although I am also very very busy working!). Round about the time when I started my blog, give or take a week or so, I was listening to Lana del Rey on Spotify.  I had just listened to Arcadia a few times and then Blue Banisters came on. And then Yosemite came on and I nearly skipped it. But I didn't - I forced myself to keep going for at least 30 seconds. Yosemite went on to become my favourite song. I listened to it obsessively. Every time I felt like I needed motivation I would listen to this song and it would give me the motivation and the sense of purpose that I needed to keep on going.  And for almost 6 months I ignored the rest of the album - Chemtrails Over The Country Club - someone told me that Yosemite was their favourite of the album anyway.  But then in the May bank holidays... I opened myself up and I opened my heart and I started listening to the w

Sun stare, don't care with my head in my hands thinking of a simpler time  Lana del Rey, White Dress Still from LDR's 'White Dress' video I am having a bit of a hard time with my coding just because there are many different conflicting demands going on at once and I am finding it pretty hard to focus. This is definitely not a simple time. In a way it is simple because I know exactly what I am meant to be doing. I know exactly what I am supposed to be doing - I still don't want to say just yet but I am working and aiming towards something really cool which I will publish if it comes out. But it is simple in a way. It is exactly clear what I am supposed to be doing.  I am supposed to be working on a big piece of work towards this secret project. And everything else can wait. Codecademy can wait.  So what are the big pieces of work I will have to do after I have submitted this project? Here are the CodePens I have to write: Tweak an Element Select an Element  (Then ski

The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullaby 'Rocky Mountain High', by John Denver "He was born in the summer of his 27th year,  Coming home to a place he'd never been before He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again You might say he found a key for every door" Funny, that's how I feel about my summer of my 28th year. I found coding. I found software engineering. And that was it. That was that. I know what it's like to "come home to a place you've never been before". Rocky Mountain High, Colorado The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake  I have kind of had to drop everything and not in a bad way either. I had to take two days out. I needed a break. My eyes were hurting. They were really sore. I also needed a break to process some personal stuff that was going on. I'm so glad things are better now. I have come back so much stronger and feeling so much better. I have so much new motivation. Eyes are still str