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Summertime Web Design for 100 Minutes a Week (#wywof)

17 points by tswicegood 16y ago

pook 16y ago
This is a great idea. It reminds me of daf yomi in studying talmud, "a page a day". A page a day is barely a burden, yet in 3 years you can have thoroughly read Misner's Gravitation, Programming Erlang 3 times over, and any number of grad-level textbooks. In 1 year, you will have read a good-sized textbook at almost no perceptible time cost, and with very high comprehension. If he can give this a 43things style UI with publicly stated goals, integrate it with book lists and codebase repos worked on, it could be amazing.
- tswicegood 16y ago
  @pook Hope this means you're in…? I'm going to start on it for a redesign of my site, but with one change. I'm doing 15 minutes a day (105 a week).
  - pook 16y ago
    I'm joining, definitely. I just started my own similar project: One Month Codebase http://zipwith.blogspot.com/search/label/one%20month%20codebase http://zipwith.blogspot.com/search/label/one%20month%20codeb... The idea for my project is to focus exclusively on a single codebase to study, experiment with, and contribute to, each month. And write it up in such a way that those who haven't yet gotten the courage to jump in, can try their own hand at contributing to OSS.
tswicegood 16y ago
I've started a Slinkset for this project as well. If you're participating, add your blog posts and such to it: http://wywof.slinkset.com/ http://wywof.slinkset.com/
seo4whitehats 16y ago
YES!!! I did redesign all day. Check it out http://seo4whitehats.com http://seo4whitehats.com
csytan 16y ago
In my experience, one big block of time is worth more than the equivalent in small blocks of time. Rarely do I find a task taking less than 15 minutes (especially in design, which I'm admittedly weak at), and I usually can't get into the "flow" at set times.
seancron 16y ago
I'm in on this. I'm going to work on a personal website for this challenge. I've tracked how I spend my time online using RescueTime, and it's amazing to look at see how much time I could be using to work on my own projects, instead of reading about other projects. 15 minutes per day would be a great step in the right direction. For me however, it's more like While You Were On Hacker News ;)

17 points by tswicegood 16y ago

pook 16y ago

This is a great idea. It reminds me of daf yomi in studying talmud, "a page a day". A page a day is barely a burden, yet in 3 years you can have thoroughly read Misner's Gravitation, Programming Erlang 3 times over, and any number of grad-level textbooks. In 1 year, you will have read a good-sized textbook at almost no perceptible time cost, and with very high comprehension. If he can give this a 43things style UI with publicly stated goals, integrate it with book lists and codebase repos worked on, it could be amazing.

tswicegood 16y ago
@pook Hope this means you're in…? I'm going to start on it for a redesign of my site, but with one change. I'm doing 15 minutes a day (105 a week).
- pook 16y ago
  I'm joining, definitely. I just started my own similar project: One Month Codebase http://zipwith.blogspot.com/search/label/one%20month%20codebase http://zipwith.blogspot.com/search/label/one%20month%20codeb... The idea for my project is to focus exclusively on a single codebase to study, experiment with, and contribute to, each month. And write it up in such a way that those who haven't yet gotten the courage to jump in, can try their own hand at contributing to OSS.

tswicegood 16y ago

I've started a Slinkset for this project as well. If you're participating, add your blog posts and such to it: http://wywof.slinkset.com/ http://wywof.slinkset.com/

seo4whitehats 16y ago

YES!!! I did redesign all day. Check it out http://seo4whitehats.com http://seo4whitehats.com

csytan 16y ago

In my experience, one big block of time is worth more than the equivalent in small blocks of time. Rarely do I find a task taking less than 15 minutes (especially in design, which I'm admittedly weak at), and I usually can't get into the "flow" at set times.

seancron 16y ago

I'm in on this. I'm going to work on a personal website for this challenge. I've tracked how I spend my time online using RescueTime, and it's amazing to look at see how much time I could be using to work on my own projects, instead of reading about other projects. 15 minutes per day would be a great step in the right direction. For me however, it's more like While You Were On Hacker News ;)