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Day 180: Finished
- bobbles 13y agoFull list of the 180 websites on the main page: http://jenniferdewalt.com/ http://jenniferdewalt.com/
- shiftpgdn 13y agoThe lack of rate limiting on the chat box didn't take long to cause things to descend into chaos: http://i.imgur.com/IhaqMR3.png http://i.imgur.com/IhaqMR3.png
- Pent 13y agoThe entire journey is very inspiring. I wonder what she will do now that it's done? You could take this idea and run with it into other niches, like music or photography projects.
- hownowstephen 13y agoOr if you're really ambitious (also: independently wealthy), try a new niche each day. Must have been draining coming up with a new toy-size web project to do daily...
- sillysaurus2 13y agoThis is by far the most interesting aspect of her journey. What was her process for coming up with 180 unique ideas over 180 days? It's like there's some secret wellspring of creativity she happened to stumble across. When I think about what she's accomplished here, I get stuck in a mental loop like, "How the heck did she think of 180 projects, each able to be completed by a non-veteran developer within a single 8-hour work session, and then unfailingly complete them all?" Congrats, Jennifer!
- ktd 13y agoThe secret is that there is no secret. The more time you spend on generating ideas, the better you will be at it-- just like any other skill.
- wallflower 13y ago"Before I started the project I freaked out and wrote down a list of every idea I could think of. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to run out of ideas but I usually get inspired by what I've been working on." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097456 Wow. Kudos!
- ivanhoe 13y agoa good friend of mine had done a similar photo project a few years ago: 100 days of kissing (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29413748@N00/sets/72157622794595107/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/29413748@N00/sets/7215762279459...). He was capturing a "kiss a day" with his girlfriend in front of a different London landmark for 100 consecutive days :)
- DigitalJack 13y agoSo, he was learning to kiss? the 180 web project was about learning.
- gknoy 13y agoI don't know about you, but I'm sure that there could be some benefit from practicing something like that with diligence.
- damncabbage 13y ago... "Paul Graham is gay"? http://i.imgur.com/UTk9DlM.png http://i.imgur.com/UTk9DlM.png
- jere 13y agoSounds like an old case of the unmoderated user input. I've actually seen this kind of thing on a company page beforehand. There's really no excuse in that environment.
- pgisgay 13y agoPG IS GAY
- frenger 13y agothe page takes user input & displays it in the background for the next visitor.
- damncabbage 13y agoAh! Oops. Thanks.
- hawkharris 13y agoI was really taken aback by the "Paul Graham is Gay" in the background. Seems like that line is in poor taste unless there's some inside joke, which is not mean-spirited, that I don't know about. Other than that, great work. I admire the author's dedication and her ability to create so many great apps on such a tight deadline.
- hawkharris 13y agoOh, sorry, this was a silly comment. I just realized that the background displays user input. So some people in the HN community are sophomoric, not the author, which makes more sense. :p
- jankins 13y agoThat wasn't her, it's users on the website typing stuff into the 'Say Something' text box and hitting 'Send.'
- macarthy12 13y ago> Paul Graham is Gay anyone can type in the box to add text
- ratsimihah 13y agoHow can you assume it was NOT her? Well no one knows for sure whether it WAS her or not, and it's highly likely that it was NOT her, but it's still possible that it WAS her. Just saying.
- Sukotto 13y agoThat's just more anecdotal evidence supporting John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad theory http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
- joe_computer 13y agoPaul Graham is gay -- is not derogatory unless you think being gay is wrong; it's simply factually inaccurate. Like saying, "Harry Potter is in Ravenclaw." Which is offensive if you have a prejudice against Ravenclaws.
- mmanfrin 13y agoFalling words are user-generated.
- holyZoso 13y agoCool! Where does the "Say something! > Send" field go when I click send? EDIT: Nevermind, it looks like the confetti dots were previously words, and displayed unfiltered user input from the form. Always hilarious, always dangerous, this thing with the unmoderated user input.
- vacri 13y agoAn important day 180 lesson :)
- faddotio 13y agoLesson from Day 180: 99% of user generated content sucks.
- bandwevil 13y agoI think that value might be a bit optimistic. http://i.imgur.com/zYsc6oa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zYsc6oa.jpg
- hayksaakian 13y ago"You should really rate limit this thing"
- newppc 13y agoYou mean day 179?
- BWStearns 13y agoCongrats Jennifer! I am quite impressed by the dedication you showed. Good luck in your future efforts!
- andyl 13y agoA web page with photo of bacon and sushi? Congrats I guess.
- chernevik 13y agoHere I posted that into the site submit box for you. You're welcome. PS stop being a goddam grouch
- pests 13y agoDo you not understand what she is trying to do? This is not an MVP, a tech demo, being entered in design competitions, meant to conform to any specs or requirement... it is to learn. Why does it matter if the images is of bacon and sushi? The way you interact with images do not depend upon their content.
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- kevonc 13y agothat's pretty impressive. usually a web idea takes more than a day to execute, not including the learning part.
- ratsimihah 13y agoWhy the heck is it raining bacon?
- vacri 13y agoEverything on the page is 'awesome'.
- fedepyt 13y agotype this into the browsers console: setInterval(function () { $.post('/node/hello_world/message', { message: 'lol' }); }, 1);
- ValentineC 13y agoCongrats, Jennifer! Now that you're done with 180 websites in 180 days, what's next in life?
- d0m 13y agoAround the world 360 days!
- kyro 13y agoCoulda probably done all that in a weekend. Just kidding, great job! What's next? I'm sure you've already received a handful of job offers.
- ValentineC 13y agoSome background to this project: http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-to-code-by-building-180-websites-in-180 http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155)
- npras87 13y agoCongrats, Jennifer. You inspire me!
- ateevchopra 13y agoHope more newcomers will learn from you and make such goals. Not just in the field of Web Development, but also other fields. Thanks for always sticking to your goal. Good Luck !
- enry_straker 13y agoThis is awe inspiring. Programming is a hand-on activity, and the best way to learn programming is by doing it every day, in every way, till you can do it in your sleep.
- davvid 13y agoThe site is inspiring. Unfortunately the "rate limit this" and other stupid comments are annoying. The internet is 12 year olds, I guess... whaddaya expect
- smartwater 13y agoI was involved in a company that hosted and rented servers for video games. It grew really big, but shut down solely on the basis of, "these 12 year olds are going to drive us insane."
- __voidcast__ 13y ago+1 to say it out loud that "Programming is a hands-on activity". Imagine the inspiration she could be to countless people who, for various reasons, are afraid to even begin programming/continue after the initial(failed) efforts.
- jenniferDewalt 13y agoAs a side note, I have on countless nights been coding in my sleep. Sometimes I'll wake up realizing there is a bug in yesterday's code or having gained some insight on a new concept. Other times I wake up and wonder why I was trying to code an app to cook me ramen noodles.
- zemo 13y agostop flooding her server you assholes.
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- SlowButEffectiv 13y agoWell, actually, the quotes are whatever the public keys in the field on the page.
- epic9x 13y agocongrats! I remember seeing your first post and sticking with it. start day 181 by rewarding yourself - you earned it!
- dmak 13y agoIs the site down?
- obilgic 13y agoNow the next challenge 1 website in 180 days.
- sanderjd 13y agoMaybe she'll take a job where that will be exactly what she'll get to do!
- jbenn 13y agoAmazing and inspiring... how did you find the time to do this? Were you employed?
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- chestnut-tree 13y agoVery inspiring. I think this reinforces the idea that regular practice every day (even if it's short practice) is often better than longer sessions done intermittently or spaced apart more widely (like once a week). Here's another example of the "daily practice" approach from a different domain. A self-taught designer callled Mike Winkelmann has been posting his "everydays" on his website. From his site's description: "Originally I started out drawing and did that everyday for a year. Then I decided I'd like to learn a 3D animation package so I did a render using Cinema 4D every day for two years. Then I did some photography and also Adobe Illustrator for a bit..." http://www.beeple-crap.com/everydays.php http://www.beeple-crap.com/everydays.php Edit: Just to add, another great post on the idea of practicing everyday from a motion graphics designer. I think it's applicable to any field: http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2013/01/one-a-day/ http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2013/01/one-a-day/
- philtar 13y agoI don't think short practice does anything for you when it comes to something like coding. I can't see anyone benefiting from less than a couple of hours of coding
- ZirconCode 13y agoSure you can. Answer a hard stackoverflow question in your favorite field, Voila, you learn something, or need to connect the dots.
- klibertp 13y agoFrom my own struggle to learn something each day I can tell you that - at least for me - what you said is wrong. There are many "workflows" I tried and am still using, but generally speaking even 15 minutes is enough to gain something valuable. For example, when reading a technical book 15 minutes is enough to read a descriptions of a (sub)problem and to understand high-level concepts used in it's solution (if it's not, you're reading wrong book). I then go to work and think about the details of the solution during the lunch break and commute. Another 15-30 minutes in the evening is enough to check what I thought up with a book and realize where my thinking was incorrect. Then the next day I can code up whatever I was reading about in an hour max, but frequently less (if not, then I was reading wrong book - that is one which I was not prepared to read yet). Then in the next days I can deepen my understanding with 30-45 minutes sessions, and at the end of the week I have the problem internalized and I can move on. That being said, when I'm not under extreme time constraints, I'm using other approaches. For example, for a whole week I'm reading and gathering bits of information I will need to build something. I have a large file, where I paste links, paragraphs of text from articles and write tiny little snippets of code, either mine or borrowed from somewhere. All this takes an hour or a little more each day (but it's nice that it can be divided into pieces). Then over the weekend I try to make this amorphous mass of data into understanding, in one or a few coding sessions. There are other ways to make the best use of what little time we get, too. They'd better be, because otherwise we'd be royally screwed as working programmers :)
- hnriot 13y agoThis is really awesome, some of these are really well thought out and executed.
- ryan-allen 13y agoCool experiment, lots of discipline and lots of creativity. I poo-pooed the experiment in the past as the author described no programming experience prior, which I disputed. But irregardless, this is pretty awesome in my opinion, especially because the project was continued to completion, and that in itself is a 0.5% thing. Inspiring effort.
- rorrr2 13y agoTo be fair, many of the websites she made would literally take most of you 3 minutes to build, like this one: http://jenniferdewalt.com/whats_my_ip/page http://jenniferdewalt.com/whats_my_ip/page But there are definitely others that would take me a couple of hours, like this one: http://jenniferdewalt.com/hangman/game http://jenniferdewalt.com/hangman/game
- thenomad 13y agoMassive congratulations to her. I'm about to start on a similar project myself, and seeing Jennifer complete her 6-month journey is both encouraging and quite a high bar to beat!
- lnanek2 13y agoThe difficult thing in writing web sites or apps isn't writing them, or writing a lot of them, it's is writing a polished, successful, end product people love. So I think having a goal to write a certain number is self defeating.
- overgard 13y agoPractice is never self defeating.
- mattholtom 13y agoCongratulations! This must have taken an incredible amount of personal discipline to accomplish. I can't even bring myself to floss for 180 consecutive days!
- sanderjd 13y agoIn fairness, flossing is a lot harder than making web sites... :)
- jenniferDewalt 13y agoI agree :)
- kirklove 13y agoCongrats!
- Lily23 13y agojust as Jeremy implied I am impressed that you can get paid $7702 in 4 weeks on the internet. Read Full Article ............ http://bit.ly/1aL7N9L http://bit.ly/1aL7N9L Open HOME tab for more details
- ufmace 13y agoCool project, and really cool on her actually sticking it out and producing a site a day for 180 days straight. I am curious about her status/background. Is she in high school, college, out of school? Working a basic or full-time professional job? If she has a full-time job doing something else, it's a hell of a commitment to do something like this on an ongoing basis. I'm not sure how you could work 8+ hours a day, then come home and work on a project like this every day for 6 months straight. Even giving up more sleep than you should and any attempt to have a social life, it'd be tough to pull off. It's a little different if this is the only thing she has going on right now. Not that it isn't still a great achievement - if I was in a position to do so, I'd be interested in hiring somebody with the intelligence, independence, and drive to complete a project like this with no definite payoff at the end. It may even be better that she can maintain a reasonable work-life balance on a long-term project and not burn out. I'm working on my own project outside of work, but I sure couldn't spend 8-ish hours on it every day over the course of 6 months while still working at my normal job.
- fibbery 13y agoShe doesn't have a job, according to her blog.
- jenniferDewalt 13y agoThanks for the kind words! Making a website a day takes a lot of time. I've been working on this project full-time and on average worked for 10 hours a day including weekends. I'm looking forward to getting my social life back!
- jdotjdot 13y agoI think the question is, how were you able to afford to take so much time to do that? Everyone agrees that your effort is admirable; it's a matter of understanding how you even had that kind of time to spend in the first place.
- mjhea0 13y agogreat job, jennifer. you basically put yourself through an intense bootcamp. the amount of technologies you had to learn is inspiring and you've really taught yourself how to learn a new concept/technology quickly. did you track your hours? what's next? build a course. get it on kickstarter. start freelancing. contact me. i'll hire you. :) on a side note, i cannot believe some of things others have said. it's sad. what's worse, is the lack of moderation. don't let a few naysayers ruin what you've accomplished. congrats again. cheers!