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What are your goals for the week? #202

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:10:54 +0000

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Make some Halloween CSS Art.
Blog.
Events.
- 28th-29th GitHub Universes virtual.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
Unpack from weekend trip.
Process Pictures from trip.

Last week I received my second Community Favorite badge. This was for an older post, so thank to the Community curators that support my writing.

Chris Jarvis

Aug 3 '22

Is it time to replace Hello World?

#discuss #humor

1 min read

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- ❌ Make some Halloween CSS Art.
✅ Blog.
Events.
- ✅ Tuesday-Thursday Cypress Conf
- ✅ All week Reverse the Search webinar
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
✅ Pack for weekend trip
✅ Early Vote. Did it this AM.

Your turn, What do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 202"

What are your goals for the week? # 201

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:27:07 +0000

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Make some Halloween CSS Art.
Blog.
Events.
- Tuesday-Thursday Cypress Conf
- All week Reverse the Search webinar
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
Pack for weekend trip
✅ Early Vote. Did it this AM.

A side project with my photography. Made some phone wallpapers. Also made one from my CSS Gradient post.

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How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
- Apply
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- ❌ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
✅ Blog.
Events.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee 11AM CDT.
- ✅ Attended some virtual events.
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack..

Your turn, What do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 201"

What are your goals for the week? #200

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:16:38 +0000

Fall break, time to get ready for Halloween.

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
Blog.
Events.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee 11AM CDT.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
- Apply
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- ✅ Work on my own projects.
- ❌ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
✅ Blog.
Events.
- ✅ Seminars * a day 1 hour art seminars. Attended some Hacktoberfest streams. Comments were filled with people wanting the login code for a sticker. It's pinned on every stream. And another guy complaining cause others are connecting on linkedIn.
- ❌ Thursday Virtual Coffee 11AM CDT.
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

Your turn, What do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 200"

What are your goals for the week? #199

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:31:44 +0000

Another morning where I need to make calls, just don't feel like it yet.

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
Blog.
Events.
- Seminars
- Thursday Virtual Coffee 11AM CDT.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
- ✅ Apply
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- ✅ Work on my own projects.
- ✅ Learn more Co-Pilot.
- ❌ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
Blog.
Events.
- ✅ Tuesday Non-tech meeting.
- ❌ Thursday Virtual Coffee 11AM CDT. Attended the Hacktoberfest kick off instead. Said that it's only focused on ai open source instead of just Open Source.
- No other meet-ups, maybe cause it's end of one month start of next.
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
✅ Prepare for art show Saturday. * Awesome show.

Your turn, What do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 199"

What are your goals for the week? #198

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:42:31 +0000

Another morning where I need to make calls, just don't feel like it yet.

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Learn more Co-Pilot.
- Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
Blog.
Events.
- Tuesday Non-tech meeting.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee 11AM CDT.
- No other meet-ups, maybe cause it's end of one month start of next.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
Prepare for art show Saturday.

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
- ✅ Apply
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- ✅ Work on my own projects.
- ❌ Learn more Co-Pilot.
- ❌ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
✅ Blog.
Events.
- ~~Monday Python Meeting.~~ Edit: Canceled.
- ✅ Tuesday Dallas Software Developers.
- ❌ Thursday Virtual Coffee 11AM CDT.
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
✅ Wait for ink delivery then print more photos. * Ink arrived. started to print but the printed heads needed cleaning. Ran some cleaning cycles then ran out of ink of other colors. Gave up and printed what I wanted at Walgreens. I'll order more ink after the next art show.

Your turn, What do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 198"

What are your goals for the week? #197

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:12:30 +0000

I'm on the phone all morning, setting appointments and filling out forms. Not building stuff.

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Learn more Co-Pilot.
- Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
Blog.
Events.
- ~~Monday Python Meeting.~~ Edit: Canceled.
- Tuesday Dallas Software Developers.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee 11AM CDT.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
Wait for ink delivery then print more photos.

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- ✅ Work on my own projects.
- ✅ Learn more Co-Pilot.
- ❌ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
Blog.
Events.
- ❌ Thursday Virtual Coffee
- No other events on my calendar, need to look into that. Usually there's something. * Python Meet was postponed.
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

Your turn, What do you plan to do this week?
What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 197"

What are your goals for the week? #196

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:21:24 +0000

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Learn more Co-Pilot.
- Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
Blog.
Events.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee
- No other events on my calendar, need to look into that. Usually there's something.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- ✅ Work on my own projects.
- ✅ Learn more Co-Pilot.
- ❌ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
- ❌ Examine updated Codepen. Maybe blog on it.
✅ Blog.
Events.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee Nope same time as GitHub Co-pilot
- ✅ Thursday was GitHub Co-Pilot Day. Watched some demos.
* ✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
* ✅ Prepare for art show this weekend.

Your turn, What do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 196"

What are your goals for the week? #195

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000

It's Labor Day in the US so this is a scheduled post. I plan to sleep in but may wake up normal time anyway. I won't be checking in till Tuesday.

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Learn more Co-Pilot.
- Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
- Examine updated Codepen. Maybe blog on it.
Blog.
Events.
- Thursday Virtual Coffee
- No Other events on my calendar, need to look into that. Usually there's something.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
Prepare for art show this weekend.

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
- Apply
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- ✅ Work on my own projects.
- ✅ Learn more Co-Pilot.
- ❌ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
- ❌ Examine updated Codepen. Maybe blog on it.
✅ Blog. Couple mini blogs about Commit Your Code.
Events.
- ✅ Commit Your Code (virtual) * Thursday and Friday. Commit your Code
- ✅ Still need to build my agenda for the event. Six tracks, I'll be mainly Frontend or leadership.
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
✅ Reset my dry erase Calendar.

Your turn, what do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 195"

Commit your Code: Takeaways

Chris Jarvis — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:34:08 +0000

Commit Your Code is taking place in Dallas Sep 3&4. You can attend virtually for free or you can donate to them which goes to a charity. I will blog some of my takeaways.

Never Click Apply Get Hired

Leon Noel

Leon's talk was about networking and building relationships to help you get known and get interviews. He said only 2% people that use easy apply actually get interviews.
Instead you should be talking to people, commenting on their posts and chatting now and not just when you are on the job hunt. Talk had a lot of resources which he's gonna send out.

Ship It First, Fix It Later

Roxy Rodriguez-Becker

Roxy made a tool to help track her son's medically required diet. She made an app for her family to use. Then deployed it and got a lot of users that gave feedback and helped her improve the app.

She encourages you to build your project and then put it out there for people to use and help you make it better.

These talk will eventually be released on the Dallas Software Developer's YouTube page.

Tip from Commit Your Code

Chris Jarvis — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:25:01 +0000

Danny Thompson just delivered the Commit your Code Keynote.

His biggest AI advice was to make the AI read and reread your files before you prompt it. Tell it to ingest the files by reading them. Then say if when change X how will it affect the files. So it has to read the file again to think.

Then you tell it to make any changes. S0 it better understands what you want.

Commit Your Code is taking place in Dallas Sep 3&4. You can attend virtually for free or you can donate to them which goes to a charity. I will blog some of my takeaways.

What are your goals for the week? #194

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:02:19 +0000

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Learn more Co-Pilot.
- Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
- Examine updated Codepen. Maybe blog on it.
Blog.
Events.
- Commit Your Code (virtual) * Thursday and Friday. Commit your Code
- Still need to build my agenda for the event. Six tracks, I'll be mainly Frontend or leadership.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
Reset my dry erase Calendar.

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- ✅ Network
- Apply
✅ Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- ✅ Work on my own projects.
- ✅ Learn more Co-pilot.
- ✅ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
- ❌ Examine updated Codepen. Maybe blog on it.
✅ Blog.
Events.
- ❌ Thursday Virtual Coffee.
🚧 Printer ink pads arrived. I will install them. Installed but need the software to reset the ink waste counter.
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

Your turn, what do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 194"

What are your goals for the week? #193

Chris Jarvis — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:18:00 +0000

What are your goals for the week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

This Week's Goals.

Job Search.
- Network
- Apply
Project work.
- Content for side project.
- Work on my own projects.
- Learn more Co-pilot.
- Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
- Examine updated Codepen. Maybe blog on it.
Blog.
Events.
- Tuesday Dallas Software Developers User group (Virtual).
- Thursday Virtual Coffee.
Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.
Printer ink pads arrived. I will install them.

How I did last week.

Job Search.
- white_check_mark: Network
- Apply
Project work.
- ✅ Content for side project.
- ✅ Work on my own projects.
- ✅ Learn more Co-pilot.
- ❌ Complete 2 or 3 CSS Battles.
- ❌ Examine updated Codepen. Maybe blog on it.
✅ Blog.
Events.
- ✅ Monday Memphis Python User group.
- ❌ Thursday Virtual Coffee. Can't make this. Have a meeting that may overlap. Was not home in time.
✅ Run a goal setting thread on Virtual Coffee(VC) Slack.

Your turn, what do you plan to do this week?

What are you building this week?
What do you want to learn?
What events are you attending this week?

Cover image is my LEGO photography. It's Daffy Duck working at a desktop computer. In the background is a mini rubber duck.

-$JarvisScript git commit -m "edition 193"