Day-10 Finishing up with Pomodoro App and improving Calculator App code. ||#100daysOfCode

Hey Fam, I hope y’all are doing good. If you want to connect with me then search for the username @fabcodingzest on any platform like Instagram, Twitter, GitHub and you’ll find me 🤓🔥.

So today I mostly worked on Pomodoro App and finally completed it. Here is the link if you want to check it out. The code is a bit messy right now as I write this blog but I’ll improve it later. The app now has the default session of 25 minutes and break for 5 minutes with the play, pause, and restart feature. There is also a setting option to customize the Session and Break time according to you. The only thing I want to add is something to show how many sessions a user had. But I am not in the mood to work on it right now so I’ll work on it when I am free.

Also, I made minor improvements in the calculator app code and made a lot of comments to make sure I know what I did and why in case I visit the code in the future.

Now I have build 2 apps in Vanilla JavaScript in the last two weeks and I plan to build few more things to make sure that I am comfortable with building apps in Vanilla JavaScript and have good grasp fundamentals. I just don’t feel confident enough even after practicing it for a year. Maybe I just suck at it but meh I’ll keep trying until I get decent at least.

Ugh, I really don’t like talking about depressing things but then I’d be lying if I show that I get everything. I don’t want to misguide anyone hence letting y’all know of my struggles which might be embarrassing sometimes, but do I care? No! I don’t feel good seeing that people learn front-end in 6 months and here I am struggling like a noob even after a year, no I am not jealous of them I am just disappointed in myself that why can’t I ? because a year is a lot. I keep going on though because I gave myself 2 years to give my all to coding and if I still feel that I am bad at it then I’ll make coding a side hobby and try some other things I am interested in because as much as it feels good to listen to motivational speakers/other coders that they became good at what they do after several years but things are different for coding as for me. If I can’t solve a simple problem even after 3 years then what’s the point of doing the thing you can’t get good at even after trying for 3 years with all your dedication ( please don’t say shit like maybe you didn’t try hard enough cuz I know I do my best and it’s easy for someone to say I didn’t ).

Whatever I said is not gonna happen though because I know I’ll become good someday and I have 2 more years to try which are a lot, after all, life is all about figuring it out isn’t it? It’s just I gave myself an exit condition else my life would be in an infinite loop of me trying every time and getting disappointed every day for life which will be too toxic for me at least (hope that doesn’t happen), and we don’t want that now do we? Also, I think coding is a part of my life, not my life so I can have other parts too. I am still tasting shit (not literally like ew why would you think that if you did LOL) to find out what I’m passionate about. So yeah I like what I am doing and I am always open to other options too but only after I know I really did try with all my dedication for years. I just love the process of growing as a person and learning new stuff. So yeah, if you are stuck give yourself a good long deadline and give your 1000+% until it ends without quitting and thinking you have other options so when you do try others after the deadline you won’t regret leaving it. Just don’t judge yourself too early, keep trying!

Thank you so much for reading this, I appreciate you💙.