Concepts about space and time travel, Artificial intelligence, Virtual reality, and Human augmentation filled my dreams and I desperately wanted to live to see a world where they could be practical. It was the possibility of a world where our daily lives where ingrained in the use of tools from these industries. These concepts have dramatically and practically evolved over the 10 years since I got my Computer Science degree.
I am grateful I was able and encouraged to channel a futurists’ dreams into a focus on school as the main platform of possibilities. Writing my first BASIC code to add 2 numbers, compiling it and watching it work, solidified my conviction that a human could design a thinking robot among other things. At that point, I just needed to learn how.
Possibilities can be very stimulating
After 12+ years of education on computers, I have realized that I learn faster by doing. I have had many projects start and die off leaving me with graveyard portfolios and a deeper insight into the workings technology. At the beginning of the year, I decided to finally start scratching my own itches. Whenever I was not at my place of employment, I spent my time planning and building side projects, watching tutorials on things that interest me and building the Clear Cut Communications brand. As you can imagine this quickly became a heap of goals that intersected and quickly started to induce some anxiety.
I took some time earlier in the year to sort out my approach to the journey ahead of me. I tried a goal coach and joined a therapy group in Winnipeg, more on these later.
As part of my framework to manage my personal goals while maintaining an engaged life, I harnessed my passion for lifelong learning and decided to create a syllabus for everything I wanted to accomplish over the next few years.
These are the major study points of study around web design are baked into the following programming projects.
Clear Cut Communications Application. An application I’m developing for my business, an agency based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company website is a WordPress site and I am in the process of developing an app using Ruby on Rails and would ideally like to integrate it with the WordPress site as seamlessly as possible. The Clear Cut app is being designed to improve the workflow of company consultants from strategy to creative content development and finally distribution.
Personal portfolio. Another WordPress site. It should be able to serve Project post types that can be categorized as a website, app, graphic design, brand identity, code, audio, and text. On this project, I’m focused on improving my front-end skills and am developing a React skin to query the WP-API. I am hoping that with this approach I can create a flexible front-ends that provide a smooth UX experience for users. The skin is designed to aid the curation of creative work on a custom WordPress plugin.
Collabo. This is a passion project I am collaborating on with the talented developers at Aluui. Our stack includes ASP.net and AWS. I am hoping to refresh my C# development skills on this project. The vision is to design and develop a web service that secures the exchange of intellectual property and simplifies creative collaboration.
As of December 5, 2018, these are my major ongoing web projects and they serve as a training ground for my practice. If you can give any insight or guidance to any of the web development projects listed above, please DM me on twitter @Niyi_adewole.
Thanks for reading, until next time.