Matt Weeks
Notes on writing, habits, code, and running.
Writing
My budgeting Journey — going from broke, without a hope to financially stable, and a regular budgeter.
In 2018 I read two books that changed my perspective on budgeting. James Clear's Atomic Habits, and You Need A Budget by Jesse Mecham. Two seemingly unrelated books, but actually deeply intertwining in their themes of acknowledging the present situation, and executing change.
How (& Why) to Add a StorybookJS Design System to your existing React Application in 10 Minutes
Adding StorybookJS to your application shouldn't be some month-long endeavor. Instead, you should add the basic configuration and setup now, with a few simple examples, and improve your codebase incrementally over time.
This daily journalling routine will help you stay focussed, and get the most important things done.
My daily journalling routine for focus, clarity, creativity, and health.
Why I write 3 morning pages every day
How daily Morning Pages changed my life.
Adding an RSS Feed To My Gatsby Site To Automatically Cross-share New Posts To DEV.to
With Gatsby, you can automatically distribute every blog post to Dev.TO and Medium with a few simple plugins and set up!
Write better commits with semantic commits
Good commits can make the difference between a well-maintained product, and a terrible product. Well-written commits following a standardized format will enable viewers of your codebase to easily understand the type of change, what modules it affected, and why it occurred. Below, I will outline my format for commits, based on the Semantic Commits style popularized by the AngularJS team.