Life Update, and some Classical Music Recs!

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!

Chatter Updates

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:

After Effects Training

For my after effects course graphic I picked an entomology class since I like working with insect art. Below is the storyboard for how all the elements would move in the GIF. Then below that is the final GIF of how it turned out. This training was something completely new to me so it took a bit of time to figure out the basics to create this but once I got that down the rest went by pretty quickly.

Chatter Welcome Page Ideas

Here are different versions of the chatter welcome GIF I had made. I was toying around with the composition a bit before Maddy, Thuy, and I decided on the simple one with just once squirrel and the text.

Anti-Racism Edits Part 3

They decided to change the overview and resources banner so I needed to retype some of the stuff on the blackboard. Here is how it turned out based on the specific edits they asked for.

Chatter Welcome Graphic

This the welcome GIF I have made for the homepage when people first log into Chatter. Underneath will be quick tips and instructions for using the controls on the page. I used what I remembered from the after-effects training I’m still working on to create this. So far it has really come in handy!