General

I'm building an interface for an event which utilises quadratic voting. Quadratic voting is a new concept to me, but the limit boundary - scarcity of voting resources - is what makes it pretty useful to gauge what people really favour imo. Basically, the more you vote for a particular item, the more it is going to cost. First vote costs 1, second vote for the same item costs 3, and so on, based on this formula:

Cost to the voter = (Number of votes)^2

Why rainbow? Cos it represents variety in thoughts and sentiments! Though, someone in my team says the norm about the word "rainbow" = LGBTQ. Didn't know that.

There are so many journaling tools out there now to help kickstart my work journal. I've shortlisted them to three:

1. Medium – I love the possibility of showcasing my articles to readers there, but the advertisement is really turning me off. I can't help but think there are better ways than to irritatingly block users from reading premium articles after 5 articles. I also dislike being shown premium content 90% of the time which is meaningless if I were to get paywalled anyway. When I'm not blabbering and have unique ideas, I'll probably share them on Medium. Even as a possible way to market Selfi Personal and Corporate.
2. Blogger – I can write as normal on Blogger and pull the blog content from the API for display on my site. There's even an upgraded mobile app now which I can use to post quick entries, reducing the friction of writing spontaneously.
3. Ghost, hosted on my own website – I chose this because it's just easier to manage and it comes with tons of customizations. I also want to own my own content and write anything I want, so it's undoubtedly a winner.

The thought of leaving Mercurics back in early March meant I have to prepare something to show to prospective employers. This means I am going to revive my portfolio website from two years ago. (I've decided to stay because what I really wanted to get started is finally getting the manpower resources I needed) Over the past 2.5 years, how I view design and front-end development has changed with obstacles and successes. Sadly, I didn't document how my views had evolved or degraded. Not that I would have gone back to read all my journal entries though, but it's a good time to sit down and start writing. I'm writing mainly to reflect, record what I've learnt and possibly share them on consolidated entries on Medium. My primary aim is to write better so I can curate content better on Selfi Personal and possibly write articles about Selfi to get it out to the world through readers.

To get started, I have to revive my old, rusty site built to convince prospective employers of my skills. The old site was built with pure HTML, CSS and JS. I took a while to finally get it converted to Gatsby. In those days, I had to code all interactions in pure JS. Transitions, button clicks, splash page animation timing. The frameworks available today sped up development tremendously. It's a boon for the growing number of developers around the world.

Layout is done, CSS almost there. Now I'm finalising the content about Selfi on my website. You know, describe what the project is about, my thought process and so on. A static entry like that is too boring. I want a living documentation. So I'm starting this journal to consolidate my past, current and future work on Selfi. Let the floodgates open. Let's begin. roar