✨ Highlights of the Week
glad that i have apple care+, i got a new phone by paying the service fee 148sgd, but… unfortunately, i lost everything from my old phone, lost all the settings, app data, shortcuts, general setup. therefore, i had to redo everything in the settings, and i think it’s only about 90% back, but it’s alright, i will only need to change them when i need them again. it’s like life pressed a reset button on me.
after that detox trip back in Phuket, i felt like living without much toxic social media really felt different. instagram is really a weird place for us; i’m not someone who loves to care about other people’s grass; i would be proud and happy for others, tho.. but whenever i see negativity, i get affected, even tho i bounce back, it still gets to me. so i decided to cut all these noises, i thought of reanalysing how i build my branding on xiaohongshu, i’m planning to properly manage my branding and better promote my pt package.
nonetheless, this reset button not just reset my phone, but also reset how i think about things like noises in my life, those noises might be important to them, but they are all “i can reply/respond later” and it doesn’t change much in ur life if u know it later, it’s reunderstanding what things can be done later and cannot be skipped now, it’s leading me back to think about my priority queue mindset. damn. a good reset, i didn’t know i needed that.
📋 Recap
📚 NUS
- TCX2005 T2 (Netflix case study) submitted. Post-trip backlog finally cleared.
- L2 caught up, T3 tutorial done, group project proposal in.
🔧 Blog / Projects
Blog
- deferred Firebase + auth to idle for faster load
- meta descriptions across all content
- font preload for above-the-fold text
- robots.txt + pagination links
- trimmed custom.scss down to design tokens
- rewrote 18 journal descriptions in my own voice
Gym Buddy
- new Plan tab + plan management (create, archive, set active)
- workout recap on /today after a session
- live mid-session exercise swaps
- session-end results reveal animation
- restyled the map (warm canvas, gold pin)
- tap feedback on exercise cards (haptic + press)
Glide
- added Mod+Enter to run code in Glide (NUS’s in-browser Python IDE)