#frontend developer

working on a new blog/portfolio site that's designed to feel like a fucked up fever dream version of 2011 facebook

Today I turn 31. 2025 has been a very challenging year.

I’ve completed my two-year frontend education, but I’m currently unemployed and applying for all kinds of jobs. At the same time, I’ve been living with constant pain for about three years, which has affected much more than I may have wanted to admit.

After Christmas, my partner and I went our separate ways, and I moved back in with my parents. This is not how I imagined my life would look at this point, but sometimes life takes paths you can’t control.

On the positive side, the pain in my calves has finally disappeared, and for the first time in a long while I’ve started focusing on myself and my well-being. I want to move forward — toward my own place, a car, and an independent life — but it’s not easy without a job.

If anyone wants or is able to support me right now, my PayPal is open, but regardless, all encouragement and kindness are appreciated more than you know 🤍

Although it is IMPOSSIBLE to ever get align-items vs justify-content right on the first try, getting familiar with how flexbox works will allow you to know at least one of them does what you want them to. If there's anything I've learned during my studies it's that development is much more about knowing you can do certain things and being able to google it when you don't know how, rather than having everything memorized. What you need to memorize you will memorize from practice, repetition and experience.

That being said: here are some (two) resources for learning flexbox!

Play Flexbox Froggy

This was such a huuuuuge help for me when learning flexbox. I completed all of the exercises once, and then I would use this as a guide and reference when trying to figure stuff out on my own projects. It's a great interactive way of learning, and it really simplifies and makes flexbox digestible. I recommend just crunching through it once, and you will be exposed to all the different ways of using flex! Then you will have in the back of your head what is possible with flex, and you will be able to recall this and maybe use the next resource to implement it if you don't remember all the keywords yourself!

CSS tricks - a complete guide to flexbox

This was recommended to me by a developer waaay back when i started studying, and it has saved me countless times. It's so good for referencing the different properties, with clear visual examples and a super easy-to-follow structure of the page. I have this bookmarked because of how often I use it.

Starting my studies on JavaScript 👩🏻‍💻