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There’s been a paradigm shift in my mode of work. For three years I’ve worked remotely as a front end developer at da-manager ltd, but it all changed with the company’s decision of getting a full fledged branch here in my city.

My initial reaction was “nooooooooooo”, because I loved working remotely. Who doesn’t love to?

I could wear briefs all day, work from the bed or work from the death star (my workstation) , I could work from a friends place, watch comedy central all day and decide to complete my tasks at night. The pros seem endless, I even had a blog post in the works titled “the pros and pros of working remotely”. Yep you read that right pros and pros. But I could never complete it because as much as I had all day to myself at home, my time management skills sucked on a multiversal level. I procrastinated a lot, the day seemed shorter every single day.

My work was suffering, my blog was suffering, my relationship with friends was also suffering (it’s about to get on a whole new level of suffering tho). NEPA didn’t help matters either and mum could pick up her phone anytime and “hey son I need you to come do this”.. and I’m like its 12 noon mum I’m at work, and then she’s like but you are at home..and I’m like “@#%@$##” .. she never seemed to get the remote thingy…

Back to the post, in the midst of all pros I noticed all the cons above and much more so I keyed into the office decision because I knew working with a specific time path or schedule could do me some good and alas I was right. At the end of the days work I can now work on my pet projects (the force css framework), write a blog post, think of random stuff or just lazy about waiting for the next day..lol

So I supervised the setup of the office space and integration of the other remote staff we had working around in Warri.. setup is about 70% done , still have the custom wall arts , embossed wall logo and insignia pending for delivery. But what the heck we resumed anyways..

Here’s a little gallery of what we have done so far

source: https://blog.hanxolo.com/remote-to-daily-commute/

Lines blurred, the definition of boundaries unknown
My doubt stacks on fears as more questions unfold
Will the history of the end be documented on bones?
Or does he transcend to forge a new path without woes.
I seriously doubt that, for what are we without woes?
It’s like the church without the devil, nothing but dusty pews.
Draw the attention of the light with the blood of six million Jews.
But still silence, He once spoke to a selected few.
When all hope departs, my soul clings on to the darkness and his rhetoric.
As my vision fades I whisper aesthetic.

Source: http://blog.hanxolo.com/as-my-vision-fades-i-whisper-aesthetic/

Sync201:
U should finish it

im working on it

donproject:
It is great...kudos

thanks bro

It’s May 4th and my theme is still just 20% done. If you are probably lost and wondering what I’m referring to, I’m referring to the HTML5 template I intend putting up on themeforest. Or maybe I might just put it up for free here.

So this template is called “The Force”, Yep you should know I’m a star wars fanatic (It’s super obvious from my alias).

While making this template I came up with a cool idea from my “class naming conventions” in CSS, why not make the template and a mini CSS framework? It was pretty cool when I thought it up at first, but as days and months passed my resolve began to waver because of standardizations, proper documentation, “clean code for everyone” and extreme and rigorous testing to cater for all possible user devices out there, because no one wants to make a framework and spend the rest of their life as support, fixing bugs. Oh I forgot to mention my job took a whole load of my time too…Did I just say a whole load? I actually meant it took all my time.
https://i1.wp.com/blog.hanxolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/First-Day-At-Work.jpg?w=625
Now to the point of today’s post I’m going to share the steps I took (or still taking because I’m not done) during the course of this project.

1..Think about the cool idea. (Yay let me make a framework).
2..Day dream about the world wide success of the project.
3..Still day dream about it.
4..Actually attempt to start the project.
5..Abandon the idea because of pending client jobs ( my project supervisor makes my heart skip every time I get his call on Skype or Whatsapp).
6..Day dream a bit more
7..Created an AI file on illustrator with the name The force wireframe.
8..Create a beautiful wireframe of the template.
9..Day dream once again.
10..Discard the wireframe/mockup coz it doesn’t look so beautiful anymore
11..Accept that there’s no fame or world wide success coming and wonder why I decided to be a web developer instead of simpler career paths
like being an astronaut. Lol
12..Create another wireframe.
13..Convince myself its awesome.
14..Start coding on VScode
15..Daydream ( I do this a lot, and you do too, so don’t judge me.)
16..Take a break because of the dreaded Skype calls (I explained above)
17..Repeat


So here’s a screenshot from my browser on a lil section I’ve written little code on. Oh I forgot to mention; Its also doubling as a portfolio because its actually a portfolio template.

I hope it looks cool to you guys. Oh signing out now, the Skype call is coming in..
https://i2.wp.com/blog.hanxolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/scrt.png?resize=640%2C377

source:http://blog.hanxolo.com/