Build 13/30: Word Counting Calendar PDF Now Available!

⊕ show captionAbout the Title Picture: This is just the November 2014 calendar retitled. It's a placeholder version so people have something to use in the meantime. Who knows how long it will take me to get the software-generated versions working.

For today's sharepiece, I posted the interim calendar to the following places:

1. My NaNoWriMo Word Counting Calendar page and the home page.
2. Instagram which still uses davidseah.com as its link page
3. Twitter, BlueSky, and Mastodon
4. Patreon

I thought it best to post this version rather than wait until I got the full color set generated, because it's taking a while to ramp-up on my software platform. Today was a distracted day with lots of aches and pains related to Typescript and ESLint configuration in the old project. I had never actually set it up, so there were a number of irritating little things to nail down. I got it working, though! It's just not very interestingIf you want live linting to work in Visual Studio Code, make sure that the javascript.validate and typescript.validate settings are active. They are enabled by default, but in my setup they were turned off. Also, you need the eslint.validate array to contain ["javascript, "typescript"] in one of the settings.json files, otherwise nothing happens. .

With that out of the way, though, I can proceed to start refactoring the code and add a new module to create Word Counting Calendars. The code for generating the 365-Day ETP Journal covers many of the cases for how to draw stuff on a PDF, though figuring out the layout and colors themselves may take some time. But once this is done, I'll be so much better off!

BUILD CHALLENGE COMMENTARY

As I mentioned above, it was a very start to the day. Either Seasonal Affective Disorder Syndrome (SADS) or a hormone therapy-induced "cycle" is affecting me physically. I experienced very low energy and extreme difficulty concentrating. But then I ate some honey and I felt better...so maybe it was all in my head? Or maybe it was ADHD-related understimulation? MYSTERIOUS.

I was able to push myself to start sorting out my living room in the morning to just get the blood flowing, but it didn't last. Around 2PM I started to feel better and was able to make progress. While frustrating, I think I'm doing an OK job of pacing myself rather than forcing myself into a miserable grind.

BONUS ACHIEVEMENTS

It occurred to me that my real business might be building a fun community. Despite the setbacks today, I talked to several people and got excited about connections being made. Now that I think about it, this is around the time my mood started to improve. Hm, maybe I am onto something?