I wrote a #blog article quick-quick, because I wanted to share what happened to me. I accidentally tricked my brain into thinking it was on vacation and it felt amazing!

#humanbrain #patterns #lifehack

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I know you don't like to read other people's source code, but remember, "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." -- The Butcher at the Red Wedding, George R.R Martin.

Finally, a bit of progress on the ToDo app. The basics for the app are set. I have models, view, and viewmodels.

The Daily Update:

Today I had a more productive day, then yesterday. If you recall yesterday I started working on a big task that I was assigned at work.

I thought I'll finish the rework today. While I did make visible progress I'm like 25% done...not 100% done.

Today was tougher 💪🏼. I realized that the previous dev has placed all the good stuff in the View's code behind 😭. So I've spent the morning trying to understand the business logic and I managed to make some progress.

Hopefully I'll be able to make some progress tomorrow.

Progress is progress! 😃

Yesterday was so nice. I finished the training and was happy to stop reading manuals and start looking at the codebase.

Monday I was assigned my first feature and I got to start looking at it.

Outside the temperature feels like -25°C (-13°F).

I managed to get from my home to the bus shelter.

Now I know why it has that name 😜😂

Alright... I now have the M and the first V from the MVVM. I got the views. 4 hours of work.

Next week-end I will do the ViewModels and hopefully the Commands, such that doing an "Add" actually adds data to the list.

In any case, progress is progress.

Just realized that my serious ToDo app will take time... I spent the late morning (11am to 1pm), just on finding out how to style things the way I want. Lots of googling.

It's nothing on the scale of making the app with CRUD functionality, before talking about communicating with a back-end server.

So far I was able to get some work done.

I started with a Figma... and created the view in WPF to match it.

Next I want to do the ToDoListDisplayView.

Good morning, everyone! I am hoping that I will get done, today, what I was not able to get done, yesterday.

Wishing you an amazing Sunday!

Finally! Got a the display pic up.

I took care of getting the car up and running, I did groceries and I did some cooking. I thought I'd have some energy left for programming and what-not, but I think I'll take it easy and work on all that, tomorrow.

What has everyone planned for the weekend?

I started my day with a trip to the mechanic, but I have a lot planned for the weekend including some programming time. Hopefully I'll get a chance to put my profile picture up.

Saying hello again to Bluesky. So is there a #TechBlueSky? If not there should be... You know as an equivalent to Tech threads community.

So the answer was yes, there is an app. How do I know? I'm using it!!!

Good morning, Bluesky!

I need to figure out if there is an app for this! I'll have to do my research this afternoon.

Until then, I'll leave you with a photo I took yesterday 😁

Saying "Hello World" to yet another social media platform. I'm a full-stack .NET developer!

Happy to be here! To new beginnings 🥂