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 Working Plan for 2024 (revised 4/16) Learn React: NextJS by Example (Complete) Improve Online Presence: Blog, LinkedIn, etc FUNFT NextJS Online Game Godot Demo Projects Large Game Project Finish Zoomies Learn React: NextJS by Example (Complete!) My original goal was to complete the NextJS course by Feb 2nd.  It wound up taking me until Mar 15th to complete, but I still believe the course was very useful to my career development and I have an official certificate. Improve Online Presence This project is still underway. In an effort to make my goals more timely, I'm going to set an estimate for completion for each of these tasks. I may get them done sooner, but I just want a roadmap to keep me motivated. See dates below.     This project has multiple parts: Improving my LinkedIn profile, Creating a personal webpage for my projects, Making a blog, Improving my Itch.io page. LinkedIn Profile (Complete by 4/19): This should be pretty self-evident. I need to update t...

 The professor of my NextJS course just posted this: Mirko posted an announcement Authentication with the Next.js App Router Hi all, Today I have published two new sections on Authentication with the App Router to the Next.js by Example course:     Section 19: Authentication: Cookies and JWTs     Section 20: Authentication: User Database Authentication is a functionality many of you have asked about, and the new sections will hopefully give you a good starting point. As I mention in the Overview video, it's actually a pretty complex topic, and it isn't really feasible to cover all possible use cases in a course. In the 20 lectures and nearly 2 hours of new videos, my aim is to give you a good understanding of the most important concepts, that should help you whatever approach you then choose for your own projects. Some of you may also remember that my original plan was to cover NextAuth.js, a popular library. However, version 5 (the one with full suppo...

I'm back to this blog! Come to find out, Ghost.io was just a free trial and I can't post there anymore without paying money. I'm planning on self-hosting eventually, but I haven't got that setup ready yet. I have still been working through NextJS. It's been taking a little longer than anticipated, but I think it's still moving along alright. I think the info will be very useful.  I think creating Web Apps is a good skill for any kind of programmer to have. People interact on the web, that's just how the world works today and being able to code for the web is a valuable skill to have. I also hope that I can find some freelancing opportunities to monetize this skill as well. I'm still working on some ideas for a post-class project: Database for Game Ideas with comments and voting Page that creates a custom filter for speedrun.com Secret game page disguised as a mundane website Web page to monitor stream activity for favorite streams The project ...