development journal

by: victor lau

2024-12-11

Started on course: "The complete 2024 web development bootcamp" by Angela Yu.

2024-12-13

Started on a meal planning app to see our meals for the week and shopping list.

2025-01-02

On the topic of database: great talk by the Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite, on how it works and interesting architectural decisions that he has made.

2025-01-06

A great lecture series on how to build a transpiler from scratch

2025-01-17

Starting to learn VIM

2025-01-18

Started course: Master Typescript and design patterns

2025-02-28

Completed courses: Modern React Redux, React Testing Library and Jest, and React Query

2025-10-01

Participated in Google's Chrome Built-in AI Competition: created Plop.

2025-11-01

Participated in Meta's Horizon Competition: created Season Dash.

2026-01-01

Started to learn Machine Learning, Pytorch, linear regression model, neural networks, and transformer archiecture.