Recurse: W1D2

Recurse center: W1D2

Here are some things we did today during my first on-site day at the Recurse hub!

Learn by commute from UWS down to the Recurse Hub in downtown Brooklyn
Got a tour of the facilities
Socialized and met other folks in the batch over 🥯 ☕️
Did a code pairing workshop -- wrote a Conway's game of life implementation as a pair via React/NextJS with freeman-jiang (source code and deployed web app)
- Was incredibly intrigued by a novel implementation using typst with PDF outputs as 'steps' in the game of life
Built this blog with this basic static site generation tool 11ty -- thanks Paloma for pointing me in the right direction, there!
- Also learned some basics of leveraging GH actions for some build/deploy steps (commit -> update blog will keep this sustainable!)
Started some course browsing for getting started to code tomorrow. Considering:
- The last algorithms course you'll need, introduction to algorithms, and computer graphics
- thinking through if there's a way to start on a prototype game soon enough as a jumping off point to learn and implement these kinds of things
- if not 'the game', then at least some web things demonstrating some 'what I learned' in a fun, interactive way!

Anyway, this day flew by and I had fun putting out at least a bit of code through the pairing experience! ✌️