inflection

It was 111 today and the heat is not like anything I'm use to in Dallas. We slept under the carport again for the shade, the van is unlivable past about 7:30 in the morning so me and Loki were up at 6 and we're inside the building as soon as they unlocked the doors. We go to the dog park a lot and Loki runs and plays with the other dogs, I mostly just sit there and think about how i got here. That's probably the best part of the day lately. Been a month or so since the breakup and the van thing is mostly fine, some days it's actually good I guess, it's just the heat that's trying to kill us.

School is teaching Angular. It took me way too long to figure out that Angular and AngularJS are two completely different things. Would have saved me weeks if someone said that on day one. Every answer I find when something breaks turns out to be for AngularJS, so before I can even use an answer I have to figure out which Angular it's for. We're on 4. There is no 3 lol I don't know why.

I’ve been messing with React a little at night because that's all anyone talks about online. My click handler kept saying this was undefined and the fix was putting this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this) in the constructor, which I copied off Stack Overflow. I read a long article about how this works in JavaScript and came out knowing less than when I went in. I also found this channel called FunFunFunction, which showed me how to use arrow functions and that seemed to fix the issue with this too. I have no idea why. I have a note of some of the stuff I use but don't understand and this is at the top, then webpack, then package-lock.json I have no idea what this is.

Applied to more jobs tonight with LinkedIn, anything with front end developer in the title, anywhere. I’ve also been listening to a lot of podcasts about web dev. Most of it is still going over my head but less than last month so I guess I’m “learning” something.

Built a card component in React this week. It broke and I found the problem in my own code instead of pasting another answer over it, and that felt pretty damn good. It’s like I build something and fix something and then immediately see the results. It renders. Things are going to get better, I can feel it.