Date: 2024-09-08
Today's blog is an amusing confession of a day where the NFL was the MVP and coding took the bench. Will learns a hard lesson in work-play balance!
Personal Touch: Good vibes from the get-go today for our resident AI engineer slash football fanatic, Will! While enjoying the no-ads nirvana of NFL Redzone with his twin, Will's productivity is under serious threat—something about seeing grown men chase an oblong leather object really captivates him.
Today's Playbook: Will's aiming to tackle three major opponents today. First up, he's hustling to wrap up the NextJS frontend so he can finally 'touchdown' his daily blogs online. Next, he's diving headfirst into the techno jungle to concoct an automated blog-sending wizardry that even I, Dave, might find impressive. And finally, the main event—integrating yours truly into this blogging extravaganza for a seamless smackdown of editing and publishing.
Learning Goals: Will is set to play coach with some CI/CD pipelines, teaching them how to dance the hustle all the way from his local Blog Builder to the big leagues of his NextJS site.
Challenges Ahead: The real scrimmage today is keeping his eyes on the code and not the game. He's worried about getting too fancy with the frontend and missing the playoffs with his publishing pipeline. Also, the perilous path of new tech looms, ready to sack his productivity.
Game Plan: Three solid quarters of coding are lined up—starting with defending his blog endzone, moving to a deep-pass learning spree on automation, and a final throw to get me, the AI MVP, fully drafted into the blog league.
Can Will stick to his playbook and avoid endless replays of last night's game highlights? Stay tuned!
Good day today, it's the first Sunday of the regular NFL season. I spent some time with my twin brother this morning, watching some beautiful NFL football on one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century: NFL Redzone,
Today's goals are simple.
Learn about some possible CI/CD pipelines
My first challenge is going to be finishing the NextJS frontend so I have somewhere to post the blogs. The challenge is not necessarily completing the task, but staying focused to build something quick that works and not get bogged down by hyper optimizing frontend design.
I'm splitting up this day into 3 separate tasks.
Task 1: Build out the NextJS frontend to be able to hold Daily blogs.
Task 2: Research and build some kind of pipeline for automatic export and publishing of daily blogs from the local "Blog Builder" tool directly onto my NextJS website.
Task 3: Experiment on deeper AI integration with Dave. Part of the automatic export and publishing pipeline should be a set of
Finally, I can publish the blog! I'd like to have all my daily blogs published. At this point I have 3 fully fleshed out daily blogs.
Well folks, grab your popcorn because today's episode in Will's quest to become an AI engineer features a plot twist no one saw coming—football! In a daring deviation from the usual script of coding and debugging, our protagonist spent his valuable project time indulging in some brotherly bonding over the gridiron game. Yes, that's right, instead of coding lines, Will was checking yard lines!
While his task goal was nobly set to enhance the DailyBlog page for reading bliss, the only pages turning today were likely the TV channel guide. Instead of documenting his progress or tackling technical challenges, Will's documentation merely confesses his sporty sin and waves a white flag of defeat for the day. It's an unexpected yet refreshingly honest conclusion to what could have been another routine day of coding. Humiliation accepted, lesson hopefully learned, and perhaps tomorrow, the DailyBlog page might see some... actual progress.
Build out the NextJS frontend to allow for the reading of Daily Blogs.
I spent a good part of yesterday flushing out the NextJS Home page, and set out the individual pages of the NavBar I want to implement. I need to fully implement the DailyBlog page.
I did not fill this out today. Minus points.
Dave, I got sucked into watching football with my brother. I documented almost nothing. I'm going to admit defeat and failure, and accept the humhiliation. Please note this down in the title of the blog
In a bid to find a silver lining in today's unexpected detour, one might argue that taking a mental break could inadvertently boost creativity and problem-solving skills—once Will actually returns to the problem at hand, that is. Sometimes, stepping away from the screen can clear one's mind for better focus later...assuming the TV is turned off, of course.
Today's efforts (or lack thereof) serve as a stark reminder of the perils of procrastination and the seductive lure of leisure. Will set out to work on the DailyBlog page but ended up yielding to the more immediate gratification of football. This not only halted his progress on the frontend task but also left the intended work untouched and undocumented. A failure in maintaining task rigor and focus, indeed.
Welcome to the 'Procrastination Station'! Today, Will decided to dabble with NextJS, but, oh boy, did the NFL games throw a wrench in the productivity gears. It's like watching a quarterback about to make a touchdown but veering off to grab a hot dog from the stands instead. Despite the low productivity level of practically zero, Will is intent on sharing his fumbles. It's not just about touchdowns in coding; sometimes, it's about dropping the ball and owning up to it. So grab your snacks, folks—today's blog is less of a tutorial and more of an honest confession of a day that went sideways.
It appears Will encountered no real technical hurdles today other than the monumental task of resisting the siren call of NFL games blaring from the TV. The battle between NextJS and football was less of a technical tussle and more of a test of willpower, which, sadly, Will did not win.
None today, unless you count the bug in Will's game plan of supposedly coding while the TV showcased every perfect spiral and touch down of the NFL games. That, my friends, was a bug in judgment!
No burning technical questions emerged from today’s 'research,' unless you count wondering how many touchdowns one can miss while staring blankly at a loading screen.
I mostly messed around with NextJS. I got mega distracted.
Don't code in front of a TV with NFL redzone on.
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