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Just Keep Coding

Happy Monday! Over the weekend, the social life of France has essentially been placed on lockdown, but we're well-prepared. I'm especially excited to get some major coding done over the next few weeks.

I just did an unexpectedly cool (and surprisingly easy!) thing this morning in removing all of the '.html' extensions from my page URLs. Essentially, it has to do with adding a .htaccess file to your root directory and then creating a couple of rules and pushing it to your server (pushing it to GitHub, where my portfolio site is hosted, for me).

Back to Monday. I ended last week on my third build of my budget app. At this point, it's becoming clearer and clearer where exactly I need to focus my learning energy. YAY for clarity because, let me tell ya, I didn't know which direction I was quite going last week during my solo build of the app. As one of my mentors, Marie Forleo, says: Clarity comes from action, not thought.

My three things I'm focused on today:

  1. Picking back up on my budget app and focusing on the 'Delete Item from list' functionality specifically.

  2. Writing out my list of steps to take and what to focus on when building and rebuilding an app (from tutorial to full mastery of it)

  3. Checking out an online course called Full Stack Open and seeing if it's something I should add to my learning strategy at this time or not.

Happy Monday, again - this week is fully underway!

This post was originally published on March 16, 2020 on my blog.

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