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  • Day Six

    This is from my “Treat LinkedIn Like a Blog” series.

    Day 6 of treating LinkedIn like a blog.

    I will stop counting eventually. 🙂 Maybe even move onto an actual blog. Imagine that!

    Sunday morning was spent messing around with the UI/UX on my “100 hours” project. After sifting through some stock images I whipped out Sebastian’s tube feed supplies and created my own background image. The nicks in the wood just add character, right? 🙂 Then all I did was invert the colors in Photoshop to make a dark mode toggle image. The purple theme is kind of perfect since it is a popular feed supply color (the other option is blue).

    A few months ago I connected Google Analytics with my tube feed web app. Other than a spike in views whenever I’ve publicly shared the link, it appears there are about 20 regular users per week. I need to show the tubie communities how to download it to their home screens so I have that data as well. (In case you have no idea what I am referring to, I will share the link to my original post in the comments!)

    I’m excited because, thanks to 100devs and Appwrite, this is the week I plan to add user profiles so folks can save their feed histories, etc.

    Fingers crossed it works out!

  • Day Four

    This is from my “Treat LinkedIn Like a Blog” series.

    Day 4 of treating LinkedIn like my little bloggy blog.

    I wrote something up the other day and deleted it all. It was too much. Too open. I tried again, same thing. Depressing word vomit. Third time’s the charm?

    The gist of the story is that I wish I was more like Sebastian, my medically complex kiddo. And I sort of am. We are both hanging out on the sidelines, wishing we were in the game. At least we are moving forward, regardless of the pace. And forward is forward.

    His innocent little heart focuses on the positive. His smile is infectious and sincere. I wish I could smile through all the parts, too.

    Don’t get me wrong, Seb definitely has it harder. The kid is a champ. Yet the parallels are inevitable when we are both longing to be somewhere we can’t reach just yet. (insert short joke 🙃 )

    Well there you go. Maybe that was a bit much, too.

    Baby steps.