Ios-Dev on dev.endevour

What's unfinished in your Udemy?

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

If you work or study in tech, I always feel a good getting-to-know-you question is “what courses or tutorials did you start, but not finish?”

My Udemy doesn’t look too bad:

The ZTM course was good, but I got stuck on an AI API exercise. I think it’s a common sticking point for students since Andrei includes a little rant about how it definitely does work - but I downloaded his repo with the solution and it was having the same errors I was and I gave up in frustration. I probably should have just skipped that one.

Digital Color Meter

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

For the Calculator project, I needed to know the exact RGB values for the colours on the iOS calculator buttons so I could reproduce them. Assuming a tool for reading colours from the screen exisited, I googled it, and was surprised to find this exact tool is already installed by default on MacOS.

It’s called Digital Color Meter and just shows the RGB values for anything on the screen under the cursor.

99 CSS Layout Feedback

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been in the swing with the #100DaysOfSwiftUI course of having frequent assignments to test my understanding of the course content up to that point, then watching the feedback video and reflecting on it here. So far, in the Complete Web Developer I’ve only had this single CSS assignment, so I was excited to see how I got on.

I was a bit chuffed that one of Andrei’s first actions was to edit the html to make it more semantic - I’d used

for the top bit, he used

which is probably better, and then I could have recycled

for the cover. Although in general, there was a lot of use of classes, where I had just used selectors carefully. I guess my thinking here was that the html should be free of information about how to display it - and we break that if we say add class="sticky" to the nav bar. The argument could be made the other way though - with my system I’m building dependency on a particular page structure into the CSS if I use a selector to pick out the last child in a list to apply a style to it.