@davidfoxio

Freelance Developer

 United Kingdom 🇬🇧
davidfox.io
Joined July 2011
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TIL that 'React and Next.js Snippets' exists 😍 Makes building with Next.js so much quicker!
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The ability to learn effectively is a high ROI skill that will give you a competitive advantage in your career 3 proven principles that have worked for me and countless others THREAD 👇
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Writing high quality tweets on a regular basis is really difficult! Huge respect to anyone who is doing this consistently
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David Fox@davidfoxio3 Jan 2022
Went live on my custom domain name! Made a few small visual tweaks throughout the site too, including changing the font to IBM Plex
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David Fox@davidfoxio2 Jan 2022
4 x 12 week sprints > yearly goals Long enough to make meaningful progress Short enough to retain optionality throughout the year
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TIL that Nextjs 11+ has blur placeholders for images built in! All you need to do is statically import the image and add the placeholder="blur" property to your Image element
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Set up my blog and blog index pages to pull in my MDX blog files Still some work to do on styling, but the basics are now working!
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I attribute a lot of my initial traction as a freelancer to strong communication skills Who knew working in customer services would come in useful some day? 3 tips for better interactions with your clients 👇
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Working on a React application with TypeScript? I found React TypeScript cheatsheet today, a fantastic resource to quickly check some of the most common patterns/types Link below 👇
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Spent the morning working on my contact form Used react-hook-form for the first time which simplified the process a lot, especially TypeScript types Highly recommended for any forms built in React!
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And we're live! You can see the beginning stages of my new portfolio site at the link in one of the below tweets Still lots of work to do, but happy with the progress, given that this has (mostly) all been done today
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Time to start building 😎
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Decided to go for a slightly different strategy with this section At least for the moment, it's going to be integrated into a larger text block (might look to break the content up in future) xitter.cf/davidfoxio/status/1472…
David Fox@davidfoxio19 Dec 2021
Spent a little time working on a 'my tools' section I'm not sure about the green caption above the section title though 🤨
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Spent a little time working on a 'my tools' section I'm not sure about the green caption above the section title though 🤨
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Worked on my testimonial component this morning (heavily inspired by @tom_hirst's site) Going with this approach because I don't think the grid of cards that I'm using on my current portfolio site looks good until you have at least 10+ testimonials (I don't yet)
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Some progress I've already made on the hero section I'd love to know what you think?
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I'm not too artistically creative So for any website I design, I follow a small handful of helpful principles 👇
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I've rebuilt my portfolio site twice already this year Now I'm going to do it for a third time Am I crazy for doing this? I don't think so, here's why 👇
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TRUE WEALTH Worriless sleeping Clear conscience Reciprocal gratitude Absence of envy Muscle strength Frequent laughs No meals alone No gym classes Good digestive functions No meeting rooms Periodic surprises Foamy coffee Crusty bread Ability to nap Access to a hammock
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David Fox@davidfoxio3 Nov 2021
JavaScript tip 💡 Use destructuring to extract elements from your JavaScript array and save them as their own individual variables
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