Version 1.0.2: A Link to the Past
Wow. The fact that you can get stuff done so quickly, even for a novice like myself, is kind of surprising. Of course, it’d never been this easy without the guidelines created and shared by others. What would we all do without The Internet?
Anyway. Today, I released version 1.0.2 of May The Code Be With Me. I’m not sure if 1.0.2 is the correct way of naming the different versions — which I, by the way, save in separate folders both on my hard drive and on various cloud services (iCloud Drive, WD personal cloud etc). Perhaps I should name them 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and so on. I dunno. I just thought that 1.0.x sounded nice or something.
As you can see, all I’ve done is adding a background color, a short info text and a link to my publication on Medium.
In order to do this, I finished seven chapters of W3 Schools HTML tutorial. At first, I really focused on the task ahead of me and did not try to rush through anything. I’m serious about understanding everything. Nitty gritty.
That’s what I like about the exercises. The first ones felt like a piece of cake, of course, but that was before I started to get sloppy. (Perhaps a sudden burst of hubris? Let’s hope not. Or at least, let’s hope it really was sudden and short lived…)
You need to be careful to get things done properly. Nitty gritty. Oh yes.
I made some tiny tiny tiny errors in some of the exercises, which ultimately resulted in failure.
Failure is good. We learn from our mistakes.
And, most importantly: they teach us to be patient and meticolous. After properly getting the background color in place, I quickly started day dreaming about meta tags and javascripts and this and that and whatnot — everything that, right now, is out of my reach, far from my comprehension. All the sweet stuff that is yet to come. Stuff I can barely see on the horizon, because it lies way way way down the road.
That’s probably why I forgot a semicolon somewhere, and put an < or an > in the wrong place. The list goes on (not that long, though — phew!). My webpage consists of a modest 33 lines of code.
I must not forget that.
(By the way: Yes, the headline is a pun. It refers to the fact that I’m saving every live version of the webpage. And by live I mean uploaded for the world to see.)
