013: How to Level Up - Dreams & Disasters

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting:

• Ben Hong
• Cassidy Williams
• Jason Lengstorf
• Phil Hawksworth
• Tara Z. Manicsic

In this episode, we discuss our resolutions for the new year focusing on tech projects we plan to do and even NOT do. We'll throw in some resources that help us and some that we think may help you too! We do get a little sidetracked (shocking, I know) and talk about nose noises, the origins of phrases & species, foot taps, and oh so much more.

New Laptop, New You?

• setting up your shell & environment
• making scripts for laptop setup
• start clean or stick with what you like
• oh aliases (Sarah's post on aliases)

Resolutions

• Cassidy's nose plans
• Jason rebuilding in a Jamstack rabbit hole
  • Jamstack Explorers (post on how it's made)
  • Cloudinary API for video stitching on the fly
  • Tracking video progress with Hasura in the Jamstack
• Cassidy automating and improving workflows
  • Cassidy's Rendezvous with Cassidoo newsletter
  • setup cloud sync etc.
• Tara's resolution to not work on things
• Phil's not going to tear down his blog and rebuild it, swear
  • Eleventy
  • Zach is so threatening (😉)

Permission to Learn or Not

• not feel guilty and working extra and not feel guilty to NOT work extra
• don't try to be the best just make it work
• there is skill in refactoring
• learning in a low-risk project
• learning in public and we all try to be an empathetic and humble community
• foot five & master chef elbow taps
• toe the line origin

Personal Resolutions

• Ben's attempt to do more but say 'no' more
  • Building a Second Brain
  • Commonplace book

Strategies to Accomplish Goals

• 30 60 90 goal planning
• breaking down big plans
• The Practice by Seth Godin
• Focusing on the act of what you're doing instead of the outcome
• Cassidy's blogvent

Tech Resources for Coding Resolutions

• Look into serverless (with Jason!)
• Jamstack Explorers
• Code Newbie
• #100DaysofCode and learning in public
• The Practice by Seth Godin don't be afraid to ship things
• git workflows and rollbacks!
• take the time to fix just one little thing a day

TidBits & ThoughtThings™️Name one resolution that you've made more than once. Have you stuck to it? Have you never stuck to it?
As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

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