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 Wow this blog looks like shit


I mean, I'm not entirely stoked with everything I have out there right now... and to call myself a designer right? Haha. I enjoy more of the back end design than the front end. I like building the system, not decorating it. I think I've said that somewhere before. 

This is the first time I've really had a fire up my ass to finish everything off in a long time. I have 3 main things to be completed and then I think this app is really done. Adding anything else to it will go against the point - making it simple and effective. And for that to ring true, I need to keep that in mind when implementing these things as well. As above so below. SO it might look a little funny, but once you know how to use it, you'll be like "ahhhhh ok"..

Sigh. I really gave it a shot trying to code stuff alone today. It is not easy. I think I've effectively coded alone once. All this time I've been piggy backing off AI and live support. It sort of makes me feel guilty to need so much help, but that's a huge wound of mine I'm healing as well. As much as I want to carry the entire load, in my personal and work life, that's just not realistic or productive. I could definitely figure it out if I wanted to sit and burn my brain on it for hours, but I got a baby to take care of and sleep to catch up on so that won't work for me. 

I plan to create videos once all the apps are to my approval. Little tutorials at first, then a vlog of my journey learning ukulele using the practice method the app suggests. 

Anyway. It's late. I got shit to do. And yeah... perhaps I could give a little more love to the aesthetics here.

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