Tiny Wins
Last Updated: 4th September 2022
4 min read
A tiny win is when you achieve something small that takes you a step in the right direction. The concept help you celebrate the journey and build up momentum as you go.
Mentioned in the blog post Tiny Wins.
December
- Travelled to Portugal 🇵🇹
- 100 Standup streak on Trends.vc
- Completed SaaS (Next, Supabase, Stripe) Course
- Completed Nx Course
- Listened to Tim Ferris #542
- Found accomodation for Lisbon
2022
January
- Setup personal site (this one you're on now 🎉)
- Survived Covid and made it to Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
- Completed Ultraworking Pentathlon XVIII
- Pushed Next.js template to GitHub
- Watched Building a Modern Full Stack App – Theo T3 Tools
- Shipped Here: usehere.co
- Read Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Met up with Dru Riley in Lisbon
- Setup production / staging Strapi v4 environment with custom Firebase Auth + GraphQL endpoints
February
- Improved Here journal editor and exercise templating
- Completed Timeless Career Advice for Software Engineers
- House sitted a dog and two cats with Hannah in Edinburgh
- Build an iOS app and custom Next.js site to interface with Strapi using Apollo Client, URQL and GraphQL Code Generator
- Visited Poland (Krakow) for the first time 🇵🇱
March
- Arrived back in Tenerife 🇪🇸
- Finished How We Work playlist from Basecamp
- Built out Progress to help me track my day to day learnings
- Finished Stripe Payments Course
- Span out Method from Here
- Finished React-beautiful-dnd Course
- Finished Cloud Infrastructure Fundamentals with AWS
- Read Getting Real by Basecamp
- Visited Family in London 🇬🇧
- Experimented with Bedrock
April
- Visited Montengro 🇲🇪
- Finished Storybook Next.js Course
- Add clickable links and Markdown export to Method
- Finished Build an NFT Based Ticketing System
- Add Search to Method
- Finished Terraform Course
- Watched Tour of Composable Architecture
- Soft launched Five Links Friday, but still a WIP
- Experiment with PlanetScale after watching Sam Lambert Interview
- Arrived in Mexico 🌮🇲🇽🎉
- Finished watching WeCrashed 👌
May
- Watched Building a Modern Full Stack App
- Rebuilt Learnso in Blitz.js with full db, auth and user submissions
- Watched Christopher Alexander Primer
- Updated design for Method, added priority task support
- Setup Postmark and Quirrel for Progress
- Read 12 months to $1 million
- Updated and tidied up old Ghost blog deployments
- Built out full GraphQL endpoint, site and mobile app feature for freelance client
- Watched Tour of isoword, learning more about Composable Architecture
- Arrived in San Cristabol de la Casas ⛈🇲🇽☂️
- Listened to all of The Manager's Handbook Podcast
June
- Watched WWDC announcements 🍏
- Updated WWDC tracker project
- Added priority tasks to Method
- Researched CDMX
- Switched notetaking app to Reflect
- Wrote Stripe server for freelance (using Typescript + Express + Railway)
- Investigated SvelteKit
- Finished up client work
- Read Elon Musk Biography
July
- Arrived in Mexico City 🇲🇽🐕🌳🚲
- Watched Point-Free Modularization episodes 171 + 172
- Setup GraphQL Yoga + SwiftGraphQL + GRDB ready for Progress iOS app
- Read Build by Tony Fadell
- Listened to Pieter Levels interview on My First Million
- Setup Method landing page, switched to PlanetScale
- Watched Lesson 1: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
- Watched talk What nobody tells you about documentation
August
- Arrived in Oaxaca 🇲🇽🏠🌮🍸
- Experimented with Arc browser
- Explored Refocus Your ADHD Brain
- Watched Clean iOS Architecture Playlist
- Attended iOS Dev Happy Hour
- Watched Iman Gadzhi inspirational life story
- Arrived in Antigua, Guatemala 🇬🇹🌋⛈
- Rebooted Beeminder career goal
WIP
- Meta Learning Book
- Fast.ai Deep Learning for coders
- iOS Lead Essentials