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ep 5 - Thoughts on Q1๐Ÿ€

ep 5 - Thoughts on Q1๐Ÿ€
Photo by Byron Johnson / Unsplash

and with that, Q1 enters it's last week. As we usher in Spring, I hope the first quarter of your year has been good and that you have been keeping up with your goals. For me, it's been a mixed bag. Some places in life flourishing and others I'm giving myself grace for.

I think that is my biggest take away this quarter. Goals are in some ways, made to be broken. They are us at our best. Goals are me focused. But life is messy, days pass and time gets away from us. Goals keep me coming back for more. I don't care if I meet all my Q1 goals, but I will get close.

notion ๐Ÿ—’

Setting up my 2022 video store notion board has been a fun past time I've developed over the new year. Watching more movies, different movies, and experiencing new stories has been super easy with this board.

The sad part is, I cannot find the creator to give them credit (adapted from a reading tracker template)

on the playlist ๐Ÿ•ฏ

Gotta say, the creamy playlist on spotify has been my jam lately. In fact, several of the chill playlists have been on repeat lately.

github ๐Ÿ’พ

๐Ÿ”ฐ SODA to Mapbox - open data to an application near you
If you are looking for a simple and easy way to create meaningful applications with โ€œopen dataโ€ (Austin in my case) youโ€™ll definitely want to check out their

Adding SODA to Mapbox map using open data. Can't stop, ย won't stop. My new obsession is open data. I did a writeup this week on how I've been connecting SODA to Mapbox to create simple web applications with open data.

View the demo here

off topic ๐Ÿชด

Instagram hit 100!๐ŸŽ‰

Thank you for following, engaging and building one of the most creative and hard working communities on instagram. As much as you follow me, I follow ย you. I love seeing your work and you keep me inspirited to keep learning, keep coding, and keep creating.

Here's to the next 100 - Follow me and join in on the fun!

Keep the BLT Avocado Free.

Working back through a few episodes of the David Chang show, and I stumbled on his BLT competition with a few of his co-hosts. This reminded me of his BLT stance. No Avocado. I have to say, I agree.

A celebrity chef is going viral for his anti-avocado stance on BLTs โ€” but he has Mindy Kalingโ€™s support
David Chang advised sandwich-lovers to keep that avocado โ€œout of there,โ€ and revealed he prefers lower-quality tomatoes on his BLTs.