Lifelog

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

42 things I learned from 42 roundtrips round the Sun:

Being rich is not about money, but freedom.
Being okay with being misunderstood is a superpower.
Own assets, not liabilities or responsibilities.
Health is the first-mover.
Creating is life-giving.
Over-optimising for success ironically reduces it. Dabble.
Unlearning is more educational than learning.
Nothing is permanent, even happiness, or wisdom.
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What was just assumed to be a tiny feature for adding profile images had now blew up into one which required new content-type, multiple new fields and substantial refactoring.

Another day in life of developer.

No, not the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.

It’s just me turning 42 today.

You know, the average life expectancy of Singaporean men is ~ 84, and at 42 I’m exactly at mid point.

Mid-life crisis, anyone?

Nope, I’d prefer a mid-life breakthrough, thank you very much. That will be my birthday wish.

Here’s to another crazy 42 years ahead!

ONWARDS.

• Moved submit/cancel, edit/delete buttons to below toggle box for better UI.
• Edited SQL for fetching goals endpoint on the /write page, to order by desc order.
• Tweaked logo anchor link function refreshHome to not double fetch data.

Having deep specialized ‘vertical’ expertise in 1-2 areas (not necessarily equal depth), and a broad ‘horizontal’ generalist skills to bridge the two, makes for a very attractive talent. For example, a designer who is also learned to code, and have horizontal marketing skills.

✅ NEW features on Lifelog

🎯 You can finally edit/delete your goals now. Also toggle the status of the goal from ongoing/completed/archived.

🔁 Added "Most Streaks" leaderboard to home page to showcase the master streakbreakers of Lifelog

📸 Added IG social link to footer

🐞 Other bug and style fixes on mobile screen
- Finally fixed the Heroku deployment error by switching the offending package versions to fixed numbers (instead of ^ >= ) which worked before in combination - knex, strapi-connector-bookshelf, npm. Wiped node modules to sync them. And deployed. IT WORKED!

I miss dabbling.

The unboxing, the adventure of trying new software. The unstructured form of learning that is dabbling.

I bookmark so many but forget them. It's time to do sthg abt it.

I'm blocking Fridays for dabbling. Will pick 1 from my "dabble list" below, and PLAY 👇🏻

https://twitter.com/jasonleowsg/status/1405441829592461316

Issue is unable to resolve dependency tree.
While resolving: strapi-lifelog@0.1.0
Found: knex@0.21.19 node_modules/knex knex@"^0.21.18" from the root project

Could not resolve dependency: peer knex@"^0.20.0" from strapi-connector-bookshelf@3.2.4
node_modules/strapi-connector-bookshelf
strapi-connector-bookshelf@"3.2.4" from the root project

Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.

[Update] - nope, that's NOT the bug! 🤬 Server still crashed even after applying the fix. Got my hopes high...

"Many people assume they are bad at writing because it is hard. This is like assuming you are bad at weightlifting because the weight is heavy. Writing is useful because it is hard. It’s the effort that goes into writing a clear sentence that leads to better thinking." ~ @JamesClear

Isn’t this the case with anything truly worthwhile in life?

This is a insightful heuristic to try out, a beautiful question to ask whenever things get tough:

Is this hard because it has to, in order to be useful?
Is this hard because it has to be earned?

Nobody’s passionate about a laundry business, but everyone gets passionate when the business helps them get rich.

I wonder, would I one day choose to work on something that I’m not entirely passionate about, but had validated scale (and/or riches)? So far, optimising my enjoyability of the process is a key factor when considering any new project or product. It’s be interesting to one day try out Scott Adams’ approach.

How does one go about finding such a project?

• Added select element for goal status.
• Added default goal type "Ongoing" to the axios post req in SetGoals pg.
• Created separate select component for goal status selection but ended up not using because I didn't wanna wrangle with v-model on a component.
• Fixed sort order for goals in profile pg by adding sort DESC params to API endpoint.
• Updated roadmap to reflect goal edit feature is developed.

Hot take: We got to unlearn more than we learn. Unlearning gets you more ROI than learning.

“Most people don’t want accurate information, they want validating information. Growth requires you to be open to unlearning ideas that previously served you.” ~ @JamesClear

We don’t unlearn enough.

What if we tried to unlearn more than we learned? What if we took our first principles or assumptions about anything, and searched for contrarian information instead (of searching for only validating information)? Wouldn’t it be interesting if that’s our first reflex on any topic, old or new?

What if we made unlearning a top priority in our learning?

Just imagine that. Imagine how much your life would change in 5-10 years…

• Removed ext links open in new tab feature in roadmap.
• Added function to clear input, textarea in setgoalspage when clicking "add goals" navbar btn.
• Fixed bug on featured goals on home pg where avatar in tooltip is not showing the right avatar.
• Added notifs to setgoals page, and redirect to new goal pg instead of home.
• Added notifs to goal pg when deleting.
• Fixed profile pg GET req failure for fetchPosts by adding another GET req to fetch useridandnames.

“Follow your passion”, they say.

Some problems with that phrase:

• It assumes everyone has an inherent passion just waiting to be transformed into their dream job
• It assumes that passion is intrinsic, internally motivated and powered by some unique personality trait
• It assumes no external force, extrinsic motivators are necessary to have it

It might be true for some people, but not true for 100% for sure, because Passion can come later, over time, when it scales, or when you get good at it......

Trying to copy and paste code over (even if it's your own code) is harder than coming up with it from scratch!

I'm developed inline editing before, for posts and comments, so it was just a matter of copy-pasting it over. But that was a few months ago and I forgot how the functions chained together already. It felt like working on someone else's code even though I coded it previously. And the uncertain feeling of pasting over something which you're not 100% sure how it works...

• Removed target="_blank" for all ext links except to payment provider. After some research, realised that the default behaviour of opening links in same window is actually best practice (even though my preference is to open ext links in new tab), because most people go with default. By keeping it to default, people have more control - if like me, they prefer to open in a new tab, they can right-click. It also appears less spammy. Most importantly, opening links in same window is more accessible - folks using screen readers will get lost and cannot click back on the browser.

• Added IG icon to nuxt config and footer.
• Fixed bottom padding issue for commentBox.

Success is having something to live for.

Success is having someone(s) to love.

Success is having something you love to do.

Success is financial freedom.

Success is being able to say no.

Success is not falling ill ever for an entire year.

Success is a fit, athlete’s body.

Success is the feeling of wellbeing from a good night’s sleep.

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Tweaked editing textarea for posts:
- auto scroll to top for textarea scroll bar,
- auto scroll browser scroll bar to start of textarea,
- set cursor to start of textarea,
- removed textarea.style.height to auto.

Creating is life-giving
It’s such a amazing feeling. Coding—and creating, in general—is my craft, my purpose, the life blood of my core. How could I have forgotten to create for so long? No wonder I felt so uninspired, lethargic, and listless for the past few months. No wonder I was being “inauthentic”. Like a fish out of water for too long, I had started to wither from being away from my source of life, my fountain of youth.

Yes, creating energizes me, makes me feel young and strong again. I feel motivated. There’s a spring in my step. My mind is clearer and focused. My eyes, optimistic and ahead.

Fixed styling for postText and commentBox on post page
Fixed personal streak not showing up on home page after login, by changing v-if to v-show
Added router.push to navbar logo to force reload home page