A rundown of the tech courses and tutorials I started but never finished, including Udemy purchases, 100 Days of SwiftUI, MIT’s Missing Semester lectures, and Stanford’s CS193p, with brief notes on why each was abandoned. I argue that quitting a course in favor of building real projects is usually a good trade, since courses are mainly valuable for discovering tools and concepts you didn’t know you needed...
My quick guide to two small MacOS tips: the built-in Digital Color Meter app shows the RGB values of whatever is under the cursor (useful when matching colours, as with the iOS calculator buttons), and screenshots can include the cursor by enabling it in the Shift-Command-5 options...
I compare my solution to the first CSS assignment in the Complete Web Developer course with the instructor’s, covering differences in semantic HTML choices, the use of classes versus selectors, and layout techniques like flexbox. I also note new concepts introduced in the solution, including vh units, media queries, and a fixed-position sticky navbar, along with a centering issue that arose when applying it...
