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It's been a huge effort, but my new kids book, Skill Seeker Young Maker Edition is coming out soon - Perfect for holiday activities! I'm so happy with how it's turned out and excited for kids to enjoy these. Available in mid November ready for Christmas.

Stream - Gifts and Research YouTube video by Basement Electronics

I'm taking a break from soldering this week to look at a bag of gifts from @simpleelectronics.bsky.social and to work on research for an upcoming video.
youtube.com/live/jGfDbvu...

Too exhausted to learn to code today and as much as I want to push myself to learn quickly - I have to also give myself a break from time to time. This will only be the 3rd day I don't learn to code since I started this journey, 44 days ago. I'm pretty happy about that!

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A table with orange, red and green gradients. The table has 3 items; all of them are programming textbooks.

Day 41 of ??? of my learning to code journey! Not a lot of "progress" to speak of but I have spent HOURS on the pictured lab and I figure I am about half finished. Most of it is trying to figure out what @freecodecamp.bsky.social wants me to do - quite muddy when you are targeting 3+ elements deep

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Day 40 of ??? of my learning to code journey! This time the cheeky buggers at @freecodecamp.bsky.social added more HTML, so I went to do the workshop and started on the lab - busy day today but I made time to code a bit!

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a balance sheet for AcmeWidgetCorp completely fictitious to practice CSS skills

Day 39 of ??? of my learning to code journey! Finished the balance sheet workshop and that's all for today, had a busy day, but the importance is to make time to learn something! Course by @freecodecamp.bsky.social

What can makers do for you? Are there any simple modifications we can do to our processes that would be helpful to someone with reduced vision when sharing our projects? Possibly a silly question but I am learning CSS right now and there is a LOT in the curriculum about accessibility

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Day 38 of ??? of my learning to code journey! Those sneaky buggers at @freecodecamp.bsky.social added some stuff in the HTML category (go check yesterday's post!) so I polished that off and got 2/3 of the way through the workshop I was working on.

A nofrills assembly of the I2C Scanner by @simpleelectronics.bsky.social. To expose the female I2C header, I used an angled header for the display. I bent the pins on the display instead of trying put new ones on. My first attempt to desolder the header delaminated the pads.

Looks awesome!

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Day 37 of ??? of my learning to code journey! Today was a few lectures and partially a workshop on Attribute Selectors - the workshop hasn't progressed to the point of demonstrating its use yet so - tomorrow! Course by @freecodecamp.bsky.social

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A house, terribly drawn in CSS code

Day 36 of ??? of my learning to code journey. Today was a lab about positioning and making a house. The borders are a bit messed up because the lab requires exact positioning. To make it look nicer, it doesn't pass the requirements. Oh well! Course by @freecodecamp.bsky.social

Nice! I'll be true envious!

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A grey cat made exclusively with CSS applied to <div> boxes

Day 35 of ??? of my learning to code journey. I am REALLY enjoying the workshops more than the lectures and labs - I love when I have to do things in order to demonstrate functionality. Who guessed yesterday's image would be a cat? I'm more of a dog guy myself. Course by @freecodecamp.bsky.social

Stream - Surface Mount Soldering #3 YouTube video by Basement Electronics

Looks like this is becoming a weekly stream. Why stop when we're having fun?
youtube.com/live/lihThWk...

YouTube video by Simple Electronics Every Tinkerer Needs To BUILD This! | DIY i2c Scanner!

My new video is up - and it seems to be a banger! Check it out if you're interested in #electronics and #diy:
youtu.be/NPpPVw-4qi8

So are we talking gas? electric? battery? high-end? low-end? Inquiring minds must know!

Haha I wish! This is a guided workshop so nothing related to me

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a horizontal grey oval with a touch of darker gray at the bottom. Violet background.

Day 34 of ??? of my learning to code journey! Didn't get quite as much done today as I wanted to but I did it anyway. See attached and guess what it's going to become!

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Day 33 of ??? of my learning to code journey. Today I just knocked out a few lectures about positioning but I am pretty excited by tomorrow's workshop to solidify the concepts! Course by @freecodecamp.bsky.social

YouTube video by onecircuit Optus SNAFU and the Little Bin

A lethal Optus outage may also have nuked the 2.4 GHz band on my router, or maybe it was a coincidence? Anyhoo, poor old Little Bin who tells me each week whether it's recycling day or not lost contact with the outside world. Here's the story of its rebirth...

youtu.be/KnXiz07Npq4

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a simple website declaring Verowak of youtube.com/@verowakreacts fame as the best person in the world

Day 32 out of ??? of my learning to code journey and today I only had 30 minutes to dedicate to coding, so this wasn't a real lesson, it was only a tribute! (building a tribute page) course by @freecodecamp.bsky.social

Time to start a flour fight!

Do the dishes as she's done with them - then you guys can both relax while they bake! Also I love pointing out when my wife gets flour all over herself, so I'd do that too!

Enjoy!

I HAVE SLAIN THE PROCRASTINATION MONSTER! (for today) - New video on patreon!

UGH - why does the procrastination monster always rear its ugly head when you're on a deadline?

Beautiful NSX! I wish LEGO had championship white bricks!

Whaaaaat? This is awesome! I hope they really do donate - I have a ton of KiCad files from my past projects that people sometimes email me to get - this would be a great way to distribute them!

@css-tricks.com Your flexbox infographic is god-tier! Thanks for making visual references for those of us on a learning journey!