EPISODE · Oct 15, 2023 · 18 MIN
When you don't know where to start
from General Musings with Kevin Powell · host Kevin Powell
You follow a few tutorials and feel pretty good with the small projects you’ve been able to build. Then you have a cool idea for your own project, you open up VS Code, and you have no idea where to start.This is a common problem, and it happens because understanding something is not the same thing as being able to do something.Other awesome stuff around the web: Naming Variables in CSS by Jonathan DallasWhat I’ve been up to this week: How to create and style lists with HTML & CSS Simplify your code with this underused pseudo-class Using CSS custom properties like this is a wasteFind me elsewhere on the web: My Newsletter My YouTube Channel Twitter Threads
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You follow a few tutorials and feel pretty good with the small projects you’ve been able to build. Then you have a cool idea for your own project, you open up VS Code, and you have no idea where to start.This is a common problem, and it happens because understanding something is not the same thing as being able to do something.Other awesome stuff around the web: Naming Variables in CSS by Jonathan DallasWhat I’ve been up to this week: How to create and style lists with HTML & CSS Simplify your code with this underused pseudo-class Using CSS custom properties like this is a wasteFind me elsewhere on the web: My Newsletter My YouTube Channel Twitter Threads
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