I believe if I stick around this would be an easier record to beat.

But what counts more is my consistency here which I often struggle with everyday tasks

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Its been like 4 years since i read a book and actually finished , mainly due to my attention span problem lately I bought 2 books .I have also collected PDFs online but starting seems to difficult than pushing a mountain. I hope I'll break this curse this week

Now that I'm blogging my progess on this adventure. I hope it would be a good motive to actually make it happen

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A year can really make a difference and the proof is this(@sifendev) guy I know. I remember when he started his journey from the very basics.

We’re actually at the same university, but in different majors. The difference? His dedication to his true passion stood out. Through consistency and effort, he’s now a full-stack developer.

What can I say , call him a role model, or someone who inspired me to rewind and restart my own journey. I genuinely appreciate his drive and the example he has set.

Is this just me or everyone? I cannot read a PowerPoint or a module by any means even when exams approach. I always choose those textbooks with a lot of pages in essence that I get a good grasp on the foundational concept of that area of study and trust me this may help if you are self self-teaching kind of person. But it is not helpful especially in higher education institutes like a university when exams approach, may be it's only in Ethiopia, but from my personal experience that's what I observed.

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Let's reproduce the calculations from Interstellar
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ABFGKdKKKyg&si=J2_2HhUfCq2rGpqZ

I had enjoyed watching the movie and finding the raw scientific truth behind it made it even more interesting

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Alright these are my progress so far on my coding journey I have said I started recently

Week 1–2:Basics of Web Design

I started these two weeks by revisiting how the internet works behind the scenes , things like servers, requests, responses, and how browsers interpret what we build. I didn’t spend too long on this part since I’ve already been exposed to it before, but refreshing the fundamentals helped me understand why certain web design decisions matter.

After that, I moved into learning HTML and plain CSS, and it’s been a great start to my journey, even though exams forced me to pause for a bit.

Here are the biggest lessons I’ve learned so far:

Building the basic layout of a webpage is underrated.

Most people jump straight into styling, but the real challenge is creating a clean, reusable, and flexible structure that won’t break later.

Elegant code requires planning.

Writing structure that can adapt to future changes taught me more than just applying CSS properties.

CSS inheritance isn’t magic.

Not every property from a parent automatically passes to the child. I only truly understood this through hands-on practice when I tried to build a dashboard but not from theory.

Projects are far beyond passive tutorials.

Actively solving problems helps me retain knowledge better than watching endless videos.

Tools matter.

Using VS Code extensions that track progress or block distractions has boosted my focus and productivity.


Overall, I’ve realized that real growth in coding comes from building, experimenting, breaking things, and reflecting not just consuming tutorials.

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#progress_report

My Challenges ?

Like anyone new to the programming world, the first few days were rough.
I struggled with aligning divs, made lots of syntax mistakes, and kept forgetting semicolons in my CSS and HTML.

One thing that hit me hard was that CSS doesn’t show errors inside the IDE so debugging becomes a real puzzle. Sometimes one small missing property or typo would break the entire layout, and I had to hunt it down manually.

But doing this consistently every day has helped me improve a lot. What used to take me hours is now something I can fix in minutes. I’m still learning, but the progress is real.


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#challenges #progress_report

Buckle up, cause shit is about to get serious
Imma spam ya'll

Websites & Tools that helped me understand much of what I have been doing lately

Here are the lifesavers that turned my confusion into "oh that makes sense! "moments

FlexboxFroggy.com

The site where I learned flexbox by helping frogs find their lilypads.

Honestly, 10/10 better than any lecture I’ve ever had.

CSSGridGarden.com

A game that teaches grid by watering vegetables.
If only real farming was this satisfying.

fonts.google.com/icons

Specially while doing with dashboards for adding clean, modern icons to my pages.

Makes every project instantly look more professional.

specificity.keegan.st

The calculator that saved me from

“What now? Why isnt the CSS working !” rage.

It visually shows which selector wins the fight.

And finally this one

Excalidraw.com

My sketchbook before the chaos begins.
I use it to design dashboards, layouts, and any idea that needs to look "organized" before I turn it into code and make it slightly less organized.

Basically, it’s where my UI dreams go before CSS humbles them.

I was challenging myself to build dashboards without using any framework. Just plain concepts of CSS.

Afterwards, I to start frameworks like Bootstrap and Tailwind

The progress sofar looks like this

I have to complete the thumbnail part .

Just to keep my promises ):

Rookie stuff

Learned new concept today Retrospective Evidentialism