Studying for my AP Chem test :)) Smiling through the pain :))
New app coming soon :)) Here are two of the Figma layouts! :figma:
I finished that AP Comp Sci project! My job was to create a simulation of animals that move around and infect each other.
It was more fun than I expected, and I managed to finish it in 2 hours even though it was supposed to take about a week. :hyperfastparrot:
My only symptom from the second dose was crying for too many hours after getting a haircut. In retrospect, it wasn't about the haircut, I was just tired and also needed a reason to cry. AP exams haha am I rightttttt :ultrafastparrot:
I have an insanely busy day today, including a CS project whose instructions are 6 pages long. We had a week to do it and it's due today at midnight. I haven't started.
I'm going to try to find time to read today, which usually fixes a few things mentally. Anything by Neil deGrasse Tyson is my favorite.
Life updates! I customized my Scrapbook profile yesterday: scrapbook.hackclub.com/lola
Track season started, which means it's time to hurl myself over a pole using a long stick. It also means that my entire body is in excruciating pain. If I don't look like The Rock by our last meet, I will be asking for a refund. :buffdoge:
In other news - I'm fully vaccinated! :))
It's week 3 (I think) for me in Qoom's Creator Group Spring Cohort!
For my Qoom project, I'm creating Partix, a visual representation of micro-particle pollution levels worldwide. I touched up the particle animation today, and this week I'll work on adding a dropdown to choose a city, as well as to start building a database of cities and pollution levels.
Keep up with my progress at: karolina.qoom.space/~/partix
Already posted about this on #ship but wanted to add it to my scrapbook as well!
The website is DONE - for now! It has changed a huge amount since the original concept, and I really love how it turned out. I started by just slapping elements and colors onto the page and played around with them for a few days until I came to the final version.
Thank you for all your kind words and for following along with me! This was a super fun project and I'm excited to see it develop over the years. 👾
www.karolina.mgdubiel.com
Taking a break from my website - I stared at it for so long that I stopped liking it, so I'm going to come back to it soon while I brainstorm ideas for how to finish it.
Meanwhile, I worked on nonprofit stuff today, focusing on planning our workshops for the next sixth months. Planned workshops include:
• How To Get Your Pilot's License
• Astrophysics 101
• Q&A with a NASA Astronaut
I've also been staying busy planning Instagram takeovers, the first of which happened today! It was a ton of work but totally worth it. Looking forward to where we'll be a year from now!
Also - follow us on Insta - @girlsinaerospace and www.girlsinaerospace.org:spaceduck:
Light and dark mode screenshots of the "completed" gallery view - I made the images a little smaller (2x4 instead of 4x6) and added a webkit hover animation.
I think the font and color scheme look great on light mode, but I'm not loving the green and black clash on the gallery cards in dark mode. I'll work on fixing that today, as well as adding some more content and a footer.
Also - the button changes from a moon to a sun and I just think it's the cutest thing ever.
Website saga continues:
I continued adding content today, focusing on a 4-card gallery layout, from which I took heavy inspo (aka literally tried to copy as closely as I possibly could figure out how to) from Lachlan's website. It's still not quite as nice as theirs, but I'll try to add some nicer shadows and smoother hover effects soon. But, it is RESPONSIVE, including on mobile!
All-in-all, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The cards are just blocks with an image that takes up a set amount, then a caption. Padding and margins keep it looking clean on every screen size.
My website idea has already changed a ton, but I love it. Here's my progress from the past 24 hrs in light and dark mode!
I've laid out most of the basic design and color palette that I want to use. My next steps will be to set some constraints to make it look great on all screen sizes, adding the rest of the content, and making a mobile version! :)) :hackclub:
My problem is this:
I change my mind.
I'm always juggling millions of ideas, Pinterest boards, program ideas, homework assignments... I live in a jumble of words in my mind. I borrow personalities, words, phrases - I take inspiration to make up for the fact that I'm too burned out to create my own, too overwhelmed to assign a simple 'yes' and 'no' to what I like and don't like.
Currently, I have seven (7) personal websites, and only one is finished. They're all half made, with different fonts, ideas, colors, aesthetics; different snip-its of the people who were in my life at the time that I made it. Last night, I wondered why I was struggling so much with picking a theme for my website and sticking to it.
I want my website to represent me: to be the corner of the internet where I show what's important to me. I want it to be a visualization of my values written in code, and with that changing so often... it's hard.
I know that this feeling isn't foreign to many people my age, and I've recognized that the issue was that I was making websites to reflect who I wish I was, not who I am. It may just be a personal website, but to me, it's also a reflection of self-acceptance and understanding.
I'm back on Scrapbook to get my life together, and for Day 0 (v2), I decided to create a moodboard for my new website. An array of fonts, colors, ideas, emojis - we'll sort them out later, we'll stick to them, and we'll make our own corner of the Internet. I highly doubt that my final website will look anything like this, and that's ok. We'll get there eventually.
Day 6 - Worked on some Google SEO for my website! SEO still confuses me slightly, since my page shows up as the first result on Edge but all the way on the third page of Google results. The whole concept is very new to me, so I'm learning through trial and error.
I also finally got around to making a final commit of my completed (as of now) site - github.com/dubiels/personal-website:github:
My website is at www.karolina.mgdubiel.com - let me know if you have any suggestions for it! I'm hosting subdomains on it as well so that I can practice some other HTML concepts without wrecking the main page.
Day 5 - I worked on graphic design for the first edition of the Girls in Aerospace Magazine! It's been so awesome to work with a team of girls around the world to put together this magazine. I'm super excited as we get closer to the release date; it's a lot of work to coordinate with people all around the world but it'll be worth it for the final product. Official publication is on Dec 31, 2020, so only 17 days to go! Super super nervous + pumped 🌟
Day 4 - I published my first article on Medium! It's about what evidence of humanity may be discoverable by other intelligent life forms, and what remnants of our civilization will define us after we're gone. You can read the article here! 👽
Day 3 - Participated in Round 2 of the CyberPatriot XIII competition. Out of 2186, my team is currently 402nd (top 17%) nationwide, and around 45th place nationwide in the All-Service division, and well as 2nd in WA state All-Service. Learn more about the CyberPatriot competition here if you're interested!
This round's machines:
:linux: Linux Ubuntu 16.04
:windows10-windows-10-logo: Windows 10
:windows: Server 2016
as well as the Cisco Networking Security Challenge. Next round will include a Debian 9 machine, our current scores will hopefully qualify us for Platinum!
Day 2 - two different projects that I worked on today:
📲 LTEz (iOS app) - cleaned up my code a bit and fixed some bugs that I had currently. I’m struggling with having location services work on the app, but have a plan in place to continue to build an app in a way that will hopefully fix those issues. Tomorrow, I plan to set up CoreData so that I can start storing the user’s home locations permanently.
:firefox-nightly: Personal Website - a few nights ago, I decided I wanted to build my own website from scratch. I had never worked with HTML, Java, or CSS before, but worked with trial and error and ended up getting a full site set up in 26 hours. Today, I cleaned up some of the animations and made some finishing touches. You can view the completed website here. Next steps will be to clean up the mobile version.
Day 1: I've been working on a mobile iOS app for the past few months and have decided to start documenting it on Scrapbook. To see a summary of what the app can do for you, click here to visit my (unfinished) personal webpage and scroll down to the Projects section. Here's an early prototype of how the landing page of the app may look, stay tuned to watch me struggle to remember to post regular updates 😎
