Sri Story Notes
I’m continuing to play with the character voice, translating my current struggle for the day to something that sounds more conversational. However, I think it sounds more expositional than it does interesting.
I’ve pushed the technical detail in to marginalia, hopefully helping streamline the main article. Still, the whole thing still feels expositional. Hrm. A problem for the next entry.
Sri yawned mightily, shaking the brain fog from her head. She had made the mistake of eating two huge slices of locally-baked white bread slathered with imported French butter. It had tasted amazing for five minutes, and then Sri’s blood sugar spiked and wiped her out for the next six hours.
“I guess that settles whether I should eat bread of any kind. It’s definitely a ‘after work is done’ food if I eat it at all!” Sri mused sadly.
It was quite late now, well after 8:00PM, and only now did she feel like some energy was coming back. To gather her thoughts, Sri sketched out an idea about building a software ladder that was a chain of related career-building projects.
Ignoring the typos she was too lazy to correct, Sri noted that the software ladder was comprised of three stages that built upon themselves:
TECHNICAL NOTES
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Deno Local Server is the new personal development environment, being converted from the venerable NodeJS. It is ubiquitous and capable, but it drives me nuts with its inconsistent ecosystem of third-party libraries. Deno is the product from the original creator of NodeJS, Ryan Dahl, who introduced it in his talk 10 Things I Regret about Node.js. It looks capable and tight, so I’m giving it a go!
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Front End User Interface is a huge gap in my current interactive capabilities. While HTML5/JS/CSS is very capable, there is no expressive replacement for Macromedia Flash. Finding a way to design and code at the same time using visual keyframing is something I miss and need to replace.
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Sri-Style Design Language is the visual component of Front End UI which everyone actually sees, and therefore it’s actually important for attracting the interest of casual visitors online. If it doesn’t look cool, people don’t care! I have a specific style that I’ve never formalized for the web, but is in use on my productivity forms.
- The Deno Local Server is for making web servers that could be tested at home, which would be super convenient. It was a jump away from the older Node.js system that Sri found a little tedious. Deno, from the original creator of Node.js, was born to correct the shortcomings that had become obvious since its creation.
- The Front End User Interface is the code that runs in a web browser, enabling stuff like layout, typography, interactive responsiveness, etc. All the technical stuff that needs to happen! The past 10 years of Javascript development had shown Sri that that existing frameworks did not work with the way her mind understood real-time interactivity and data management, so making her own system was the future.
- Sri-Style Design Language is the actual part that matters to Sri and anyone who would look at what she made with the prior two items on the Software Ladder. Those enabled what counted: cool looking stuff on the internet that also worked amazingly.
These three ideas was a good start, though too high level to convert into a course of action. Currently, the DENO LOCAL SERVER was slowly coming together as a “minimum viable product”; the final steps were to be able to serve bundled javascript with html and css so it would be possible to work on the front end and web-based visual design language.
So…get the Deno server to MVP is the immediate step to push on! It’s the first rung of the ladder!