I have repeated patterns seasonally every year. For instance, my end of July and the beginning of August were always super busy. My October and November are friends gathering seasons. Speaking of pattern, my real year often starts in March. January and February were often passed without any notable things done.
The reason is the Chinese New Year in February.
Usually, I have to conclude my work by the end of December. The last few days of December were usually busy wrapping up all projects. This makes the first week of January in low energy mode. For this year, I have to finish 2 classes in the first half of January, making my low energy mode span for the entire January.
The low energy mode creates procrastination and a mindset to wait until Chinese New Year to start anything. Then comes the 2 weeks of holiday mood.
By the end of February, or even the beginning of March, that my mindset finally gets tuned into working mode again.
Maybe next year, I should schedule some work that crosses December and January to allow some momentum to avoid procrastination with the pre-holiday mood and holiday mood in January and February.
The reason is the Chinese New Year in February.
Usually, I have to conclude my work by the end of December. The last few days of December were usually busy wrapping up all projects. This makes the first week of January in low energy mode. For this year, I have to finish 2 classes in the first half of January, making my low energy mode span for the entire January.
The low energy mode creates procrastination and a mindset to wait until Chinese New Year to start anything. Then comes the 2 weeks of holiday mood.
By the end of February, or even the beginning of March, that my mindset finally gets tuned into working mode again.
Maybe next year, I should schedule some work that crosses December and January to allow some momentum to avoid procrastination with the pre-holiday mood and holiday mood in January and February.
Links worth sharing
→ Conic CSS Style
The conic gradient is one of my favorite styles. It allows some unique graphic effects.
→ SVG Color Matrix Mixer
Very nice color matrix filters applying to <img>. Pure CSS and SVG.
The feColorMatrix SVG filter can be used as a value for the CSS filter property. Combining these powers we can change the color of HTML elements.
→ React without Build Tools
This method uses the htm (Hyperscript Tagged Markup) that allows JSX-like syntax in modern browsers without the transpiler.
→ FlowChart.fun—Making flow chart from plain text
I love using this kind of plain-text-to-graphic generator. Bookmarked.
For lightweight usage, the plain text allows quick creation. For heavy usage, the plain text allows a version-controlled for consistent output.
→ Google Fonts for Icons
By the way, I always have concerns about using Google services. So I look it up and seems using Google Font is safer than other API usages.
→ What does using the Google Fonts API mean for the privacy of my users?
Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail.
–Thomas Mak, 2021-03-07,
Makzan’s Dispatch 2021 week 10.