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My new writing routine - HabitDiary 21.11.2020

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Welcome to my new Habit Diary. In the last two weeks, I thought a lot about my blogging. First, I was unsatisfied with my current formats, and now I am just inspired to write my novel more than just a scene per week. If you are interested in a grimdark Scifi novel, then you can read it  here . I want to finish it this year, and for that, I want to write a new scene every day. I can't maintain the same blogging activity, but I don't want to pause all blogging. I decided to write a Habit Diary every two weeks, where I describe my current routine and how I plan to change it to hopefully achieve excellent results in all my projects. It is probably something I can maintain, and I believe that it could inspire you to change something in your life, too. Let's start in the night before every day: Around ten in the evening, I will turn off all electronics and begin writing the first version of a new scene for my novel or respectively a Habit Diary every second Tuesday night. I have
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Four step registration process and admin area - DevDiary #4

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Last week I wrote that only some legal writing and the admin area are missing. I forget about one thing: The registration process. I decided it needs to be a four-step process, but I will talk with David about that again. Usually, I implement details how I see fit and then speak with David about it. I don't want to write for every single thing. That is what I did last week. There is now this menu at the bottom of every page. There are symbols for social networks (not linked, though and kofee doesn't have that many social networks) and links to legal texts. It still needs something like a "terms and conditions for usage", so that we are legally allowed to use their logos and images on our website. Legal stuff is such a complicated mess. I prefer writing code :D This is the first step of the registration process: Mail and Password you want to use for the account. Those are the information that firebase authentication will save for us. Then a verification email is
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Read, Test, Write - My new approach to self improvement blogging

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My first approach to this blog was to just write anything. Soon categories emerged: DevDiaries, Tales of Nowardo and this kind of post: ArtursAdvice. The first two are well defined, but coming up with topics for ArtursAdvice is a struggle every single time and I feel doubt. My doubt means that I need to reflect on what I did and that is what this post is about. ArtursAdvice should help you achieve your dreams and ambitions. Maybe the articles helped you, maybe they didn't. The problem is, that I am not absolutely convinced of my previous articles. I presented ideas and strategies to you, that I read somewhere or came up with myself. They sound good, but do they work? I don't know. And that is the problem. I can't do that anymore. It feels dishonest to present something I am not fully convinced about. I need to change my strategy. I need to write differently. I noticed that my DevDiaries had surprisingly a lot of readers. I wondered about this since all I write about is,
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Train or die - Tales of Nowardo #5

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Jarek woke up from a horrible nightmare. He was almost killed my a plant and lost his gardening suit and his grandfathers knife. Then had to kill a flesh-eating okapi with his teeth and if that is not awful enough he had to seek refuge in a bunker full of probably horrible people. Then he realized it was not a dream but what actually happened. His leg still hurt, his hand was still burned, but he felt much better. Another day and he would be ready to go home. "Those bunker#3 people seemed to be not that awful after all", Jarek thought, "I am still alive and they treated my wounds." Just now he realized the humanoid creature squatting in a chair next to the bed. Jarek crawled to the other side of the bed and eyed the man from his frog-like legs to his smirking face. "Great! Enough sleep. Time for your first lesson. Here is a knife. Try to hit me.", the man said with a squeaky voice and throw the knife to Jarek. The knife fell in his lap. The frogman jumped
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Hide options and started an eBook reader website - Dev Diary 11.04.2020

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After my last dev diary, I thought about what actually is needed for a minimum viable product of my voluntary work job-search site and it is actually not that much. I didn't really develop a lot this week. The only thing I implemented is the option to hide the options. Even that is not that important right now, but it was fast to do it. There are just some texts missing and then we can make it available for the first organisations. We will first introduce the website to five organisations so that they can give us feedback. Before it can be released however there are some legal texts, that we have to put on the site since the Germany law demands it. An admin area is needed as well. We can't allow anyone to put content on our site. We have to allow every NGO's representation first and we have to see every change they make. The admin console should allow us to make them visible or invisible. That is what I plan to develop next week. I also started a second project, th
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Forget about goals, focus on systems - ArtursAdvice

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"Forget about goals, focus on systems instead", that is a line from the international bestseller Atomic Habits written by James Clear. If you don't know him, James Clear is a self-improvement blogger  with great articles. If you want to improve yourself I recommend you to check it out. His book Atomic Habits promises "an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones". If that is your goal then his book will help you. Those of you, that are not familiar with the concept of habits, might wonder what "forget about goals" and "focus on systems" is all about. Those are fundamentals that are explained in the first chapter really well. I will try to give you a short explanation, so you can understand why people including me are so fascinated by habits. James Clear defines a habit as "a routine or practice performed regularly; an automatic response to a specific situation." You probably already knew that but did you knew th
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A sudden departure - Tales of Nowardo #4

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Anna stood at the counter of the Three Moon Shine Bar and enjoyed a Green Dream, the only thing that helped her calm down as a voice interrupted her peace: "Ahoi, I heard you are looking for business opportunities." She turned around and examined the man that approached her. He looked old but not as old as his clothes. She lost the interest when she noticed the toe coming through his left boot. "Thread-level zero; recommended elimination method: punch to the face", said her warrior-brain. She couldn't turn it off and she had to spend a lot of strength not to act on it. She told him with clenched teeth to go away: "Whatever you want, you clearly couldn't pay us. You know I am a Hyper, so don't overextend my patience." Hypers were female genetically modified warriors, that were used by the Gori dictatorship to fight a rebellion against them. Hypers had hyper-stamina, hyper-speed, but were also hyper-aggressive and hyper-active. The dictatorship w
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