[0/15] How about 15 weeks of code?

Introduction 👋
Hey there dev.to community! My name is Seth, and I've been working in tech and software for about 7 years. I've worked across many tech stacks, and even started my career as a mainframe operator. Much of my career has been spent working with databases and infrastructure, but lately I've really been getting the itch to become a full stack engineer. I decided to start working on a portfolio website about a week ago, and that was probably a good decision!

Being Laid Off 🦠😔👎
Unfortunately, I was laid off along with many of my team members last Thursday morning due to the COVID-19 situation. If nothing else, this has really highlighted the necessity of having good examples of my work available for others to see. Because of this, I've decided to commit to do #100daysofcode, but to reduce spam and better organize my time, I'm going to publish a weekly update here on dev.to.

Planning 📝
Over the next 100 days, I want to accomplish the following:

• Get comfortable blogging about technology (this is a good start, huh!?)
• Build a portfolio website I can be proud of
• Start my youtube channel -> create interesting content that revolves around my interests and experience
• Learn a popular SPA framework and build my html+css skillset
• Build javascript skillset -> become proficient with node/express
• Build multiple projects with REST APIs built in NodeJS, Python, and maybe Go
• Experiment with GraphQL & FaunaDB

What I've done so far 💪
My next post will go into greater detail, but I would like to highlight some of the work I've done so far for week 1.

• I've purchased sethcenterbar.com, set up route53, ssl certs, cloudfront etc.
• I've played with react and svelte. Currently, I'm moving forward with svelte, but I don't have a huge preference at this point.
• Worked on collecting all content I have to share for now
• Published WIP site

Before following up with post[1/15] I would like to: 🛠️

• Finish cross-browser support for navbar
• Implement routing in svelte
• Integrate with a third party api (maybe pull projects from github to display on my site)

In Conclusion 🧑‍🚀🚀
This has been a pretty scary time for all of us, and losing my job has been quite unsettling. I'm deciding to make the best of it. I would love to make some friends on this site and I'm always excited to talk about data, polyglot persistence, microservices, serverless, and backend dev.

If you want to follow my website work live, -> https://sethcenterbar.com