Since I have some downtime this week, I’ve asked Maddy and Valerie to learn Google’s Material Design CSS Framework. Overall, it’s pretty similar to Bootstrap, but I like how the overall look and feel is very different. Another thing that I really like is how they explain design principles, the knowledge of which I lack. Here are some screenshots from the blank HTML page I made and put random components in.
I’ve been working with Abriella on our reflection project for Chatter. We decided to do a slideshow and an infographic. Here are some screenshots from the slides we’ve been working on.
It’s been a while since I update my blog regularly because I’ve been busy with Chatter (which I really like), so I wanted to make this post to catch up on some life updates and also classical music recs, because I’ve been neglecting my weekly post :p.
So a lot has happened over the break professional-wise for me . . . I got two rounds of interview for a summer internship, and I was fortunate enough to make it through! I’ll be interning at Facebook this summer. I’m very relieved and grateful to have found an internship while COVID-19 is still going on. Special thanks to my roommate Jennifer for the insane amount of time she spent helping me practice technical interviews (and her big brain).
Some past winter break funsies.
And lastly, the part we’ve all been waiting for, playlist recs!!! I found a Liszt’s Piano Transcriptions playlist on Spotify, and I’ve found some fiery, flashy, glistening, but melodic pieces. Here is Schumann-Liszt Widmung (Dedication) and Frühlingsnacht (Spring Night) by French pianist Jean-Baptiste Doulcet. I’ve shared a different version of Widmung before on my blog by Tiffany Poon, but I also really like Doulcet’s interpretation and performance as well!
I’ve been pretty busy with Chatter the last week and up to now. Chatter’s been going really well, and I’ve learned a lot from Chris. It’s also been really fun working with Maddy and Abriella on the UI / UX of the application as well, Abriella did a great job making the design for the app.
Things that I’ve learned throughout this project: Vue, basic Vuex store stuff, using SCSS map to help with responsiveness, reverting a specific file in git, making pull requests and working across forks, accessibility testing, etc. I’ve really enjoyed this project, and I hope there’ll be future projects similar to this for me to work on :).
Here are some screenshots from the demo.
And the mobile view:
I’ve been working on Chatter with the project managers, Chris, Maddy, and Abriella. It’s been really fun so far. I get to learn a little bit of Vue and did a lot of front-end stuff to implement Abriella’s design. Here are my progress for this week. Although it’s a holiday week, I’m really glad I’ve chosen to work this week, I’ve learned a lot and the work was really fun and exciting!
Today is also the last day of 2020! So much has happened in 2020, and I’d say that overall I’m proud of myself of what I’ve accomplished this year:
Learned React / React Native
Transferred to a major that I enjoy (so far . . . :p)
Learned how to create responsive web designs
Found more classical music to enjoy
Designed classical composers tote bags for a Charity
Learned Liszt’s Sonetto del Petrarca No. 47
Got more flexible in yoga
etc. etc.
Here’s a piece of music to close out 2020. Kreisleriana is one of those pieces that is very Schumannesque. The piece is supposedly the visualization of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s eccentric conductor Kreisler. It also features a lot of contrapunctal, dramatic, and stormy passages. The piece also reflects Schumann’s (supposedly) schizophrenic episodes featuring Eusebius and Florestan.
This rendition of Kreisleriana is performed by the legendary Martha Argerich.
I’ve been forgetting about this weekly post but I’ll get back onto it now! I’ve been revisiting old pieces that I was obsessed at one point. Not that I don’t like them anymore, they’re great still. By obsessed I meant listening to it on loop for a few hours. So I still listen to them now, just not on loop.
Here’s Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F minor. This is one of Chopin’s most favorite pieces, and it is both technical and lyrical / musical. Personally, I felt like there are a lot of characteristics packed in this piece: sweetness, sorrow, drama / climax, resolution, etc.
My favorite performance of this is below, by Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman.