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So I’ve been doing a lot of work on the Vantage-Fit project and I’ve been starting off by doing a big UI overhaul. I’ve acutally been using a lot of AI for this because frankly it’s just bettere at coming up with good css ideas for me and it’s really easy with something like supermaven and tailwind to style the fontend. I’ve decided to do the UI overhaul mainly because I was unhappy with parts of the exercise builder. The spacing was inefficient and the UI itself looked clunky but with the help of supermaven we’ve gottena lot better of a UI going for us. ...

i’ve been doing a lot of work on several different projects this summer and I’ve had to think a lot in terms of AI. What tools I should be using, what applications should I be using these tools in and how can I really maximine both my learnign expereince and my ability to build quickly and leverage the speed benefits of AI without introducing horrenodous lines of code. I think I’ve definitely swung form one side of the the pendulumu to the other and back and forht over the past year. I was intilaly using no AI at all this time last year, believing it best fror the larning expereince and then I embraced it fully, getting a lot fo pseed ups in my personal projects and then afterward I noticed it was reducing my ability to think for myself particularly in lettcode-esque problems. At which point I really began being very intentionaly with how I use AI in my devleopment. ...

Recruiting season is coming up in a matter of months now and so I’m looking into shoring up my tech interview skills and some of my more basic data structures and algorithms skills. It’s been a semester since I took Data Structures and Algorithms so I’m really looking forward to it, that course was really fun to get into. At the recommendation of a good friend of mine, I’m going through the Blind 75 on leetcode. My goal is to get through all of the questions by the end of the semester and more than that, I want to be able to solve all the problems without any help. I want to be able to take the skills and the types of problems I see and be able to map my growing skillset onto the problem. I think that’s going to be the difference between me having done all of these leetcode problems vs really getting a good understanding of these interview questions. ...

I recently fell down the rabbit hole of Neovim, learning how to configure my own setup through a guide by The Primeagen. It was interesting as I have been toying around with Vim in VSCode for some time now. I quite enjoy it since there’s something very comfortable about using VSCode, having all my features right at hand. I do however recognize that my set up is far from the most efficient and I’m sure I could program much more quickly and much more enjoyably if I took some time to really configure my setup. ...

This is the last real idea I have for projects, at least for now. I’ve wanted to make algorithm visualizers for certain algorithms for a while now. Specifically, I really enjoy the idea of visualizing path-finding algorithms like A* and Dijkstra’s algorithm. Dijkstra’s is the main one I’ve comprehensively learned about in my courses thus far. The interesting thing I noticed during my Data Structures and Algorithms courses was that I really benefited from using a visual representation of the algorithm. And for a lot of algorithms there was a good visual representation available online. The only case in which this wasn’t true was for path-finding algorithms so that’s why I’m focusing on these algorithms for this project. ...

Rain.txt was a project that I made a long time ago now. It was my first real working app with a decent frontend and backend. The original idea was to make a better text editor for writers since I myself am an aspiring fantasy author. The end product was a decent enough application that was missing a few features mainly due to a lack of my expertise a the time. I used an npm package to make the actual text-editor which really limited the capabilities of the app. ...

Vantage-Fit is a project that has been in my head for about a year now. I had a major development cycle on it in the Summer of 2024 and I’m revisiting it now to properly finish the job. The idea behind Vantage-Fit was to create a training app that could provide as good of—or perhaps an even better training—advice compared to a personal-trainer at a fraction of the cost. For me this means making a program-builder, a progress-tracker, and an AI-toolkit that worked together to essentially emulate a personal-trainer. ...