Weekly Summary: 7/4 - 7/10
Tags: 100daysofcode, codenewbie, productivity, devjournal
Published: 2021-07-12 21:28:44

Welcome to the 3rd installment in my "Weekly Summary" series where I provide quick recaps for what I worked on the previous week to help keep myself accountable. 

First, let's go over my weekly schedule:

## Current Weekly Schedule

- **Monday - Thursday**: Study from 6:00pm - 8:00pm-ish. 
I'll go until 9 depending on how I'm feeling.
- **Friday**: Study from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
I like to give myself more time to study when I can and working half-day Fridays for my current job is a great way to get in some extra time.
- **Saturday**: Study from 7:30am - 9:30am
I give myself at least 2 hours on Saturdays even though I can often get in more time.
- **Sunday**: Day off
This is my day to recoup, get energized, and prepare for the coming week!

This all works with my personal goal of studying/coding 2 hours per day. I would love to do more but I don't have the mental bandwidth throughout the week to do more, typically. 

I don't always get to stick to this schedule but I try my best to do so.
Now then, let's get to it!

## Monday, July 5th

Monday I was off as Independence Day was observed and it's a national holiday in the US. I caught up on some emails/newsletters that were piling up in my inbox, posted last week's "Weekly Summary," and sent out my first newsletter via Revue! While this contained last week's "Weekly Summary" and I don't have much of 

I also built our a link sharing page on my website that I have placed in my social media channels that links to my portfolio, blog, twitter, etc.

## Tuesday, July 6th

Friends from out of state were in town so I took the night off and enjoyed dinner and catching up with them. While no coding was done, I thoroughly enjoyed the White Castle we ate 😋

## Wednesday, July 7th

Wednesday was a bit tough for me...it was not the night I planned on having as I had to stop what I was doing to be there for my fiancée through a panic attack which also means being there for her the rest of the night.

Before that, however, I got in some studying React. Not a very productive night but things happen and you just have to adapt.

## Thursday, July 8th

Thursday was fun! I got new switches for my mechanical keyboard so I installed those before diving into studying React. 

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## Friday, July 9th

Friday was a fun day for me! I messed around in React and Gatsby a bit to learn it more in-depth. While I don't plan on using Gatsby for future projects on my portfolio, Coding Catchup is built on it so the more I learn the better, in my opinion.

I also created my own blog cover images to be more personalized. Though basic, I'd prefer using my own that I created in Affinity Designer. Previously I was using [CoverView](https://coverview.vercel.app/) by [Rutik Wankhade](https://rutikwankhade.dev/) which worked well, but I wanted to create something I had total control over.

## Saturday, July 10th

On Saturday I had to do some updating to my Wedding website, however, upon opening VS Code I saw how messy everything was. The HTML was not as semantic as I'd like and the SCSS was a garbled mess, so I chose to rewrite it from the ground up!

I spent Saturday only worrying about the mobile site as making it responsive wouldn't take too much. 

## Moving Forward

I have to finish my wedding website, that is first and foremost, as our wedding is in October and invites are going out *very* soon. Other than that I plan on doing some more writing this week and actually diving deep into React again, life-permitting.

If you don’t already, I’d love for you to follow my journey to becoming a web developer on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/TheRyanFurrer) where I’ve committed to and post updates daily! Come and say hi, I’d love to support you.