A quick reminder as folks are glorifying absurd hours again: 1. Sustained crunch mode leads to net negative productivity vs. 40 hr/wk 2. Working sleep deprived leaves you as mentally impaired as being drunk Working longer *feels* productive but it makes you worse at your job.

The latest project is going live today. Feels good to get the styling correct for this school club leaderboard. us-house-leaderboard.vercel.app #webdev #nextjs #hygraph

I've always felt weird about promoting myself. Maybe too many years working in schools. Anyway, I'm making my freelancing gig official. I added samples and my rates to my site for any website or multimedia freelance rquests: ryan-james.dev/freelance

Random, but how many people have switched over to Typescript for all projects? I use it for projects I can take my time with, but when I want to ship something quickly, I'm still going for Javascript. #webdev

It's been a productive week already: uodated 2 projects with new features and shipped 2 new landing page projects. Thankful for Netlify and Hygraph to make this stuff easier.

I haven't been on Polywork in a while. I'm digging the new profile sites there now. You can check mine out at: polywork.com/ryan_james

I just put this up in my blog and my account on dev.to. I've been reading the docs and learning more about the App Router in NextJ 14. I built a single page app with read, post, and mutation abilities for a database that's kept in a CMS. dev.to/ryanjames1729/…

It feels pretty good when your app is being used so much that Netlify asks you to go a level up in your account plan.

After using some inspiration from H. Ryan Jones Guess My Word site I've used with my students, I started to build my own version. I've used other big frameworks in the past but went lightweight and used Astro this time. Still a work in progress. word-of-the-day-james.netlify.app

Just tried Astro astro:db for the first time. I can't wait to play with this at work tomorrow!

I found time to dig into Astro's new db feature. I wrote up what I learned from this and you can read it on dev.to or my site. Shout out to the support channel in the Discord for Astro for being awesome! https://dev.toryanjames1729/learning-with-astrodb-25og

Testing out the 'streak' feature today. Seems to be working, only time will tell. lets-play-alpha.netlify.app

I just put up a quick write-up on DEV Community about how I built my word game, lets-play-alpha.netlify.app. You read the article at dev.to/ryanjames1729/…. #webdev #astro #react

HUGE NEWS IN 3 EXCITING PARTS 🔥 1. new season of 4 Web Devs 1 App is coming! 2. 4D1A is now filmed in person! 3. we're expanding 4D1A to include you — and giveaways! build an app by May 10 and you could win Jeff Sheldon's complete Gather Collection! details in thread

I just put up a long overdo write-up on my spelling app, CDS Spells!, that I made for our younger learners at my school. This was a full stack app I built originally for my children and found it useful in the classroom as well. dev.to/ryanjames1729/… #webdev #graphql #nextjs

Best part of my day was booting up this old Macintosh we found at work this week. Can't believe it still works!