New update - work reel added

I was very keen on adding this section because I needed a place to showcase my work but I wanted to try a different approach from the classic case-studies. Case-studies are fine and I still keep some of them on VeryTheory. If enough time is put into them, they can actually be a better form of presenting large chunks of work in a narrative that can easily be digested.

The problem I have had for a while is that not all work is a big project and smaller chunks of work are still important and sometimes make a big difference while still having no place in a case-study. At least not how I am envisioning it.

Meet work reel

Work reel makes me “reely” happy because it feels like the right format that I can use to display both some context and a little bit of drama behind it.

Each reel is quite basic in itself. It is nothing but an array of images (will be adding Videos and HTML embeds) that I will be throwing into an entry that is then capable of displaying them neatly in a page.

Time to get technical

My main objective with this project was to learn build something functional from concept to implementation using the technologies I have described in this post. So it’s not just flexing about the design work I do.

These being said, this was a very good learning experience and I do feel much more secure about writing code after this sprint.

A few key points

• Sanity was a great choice. First thing I had to do before setting-up the grounds for the reels was to make sure I can hold all my data in Sanity. I had a few uncertainties because I needed to append multiple media assets to the same node. To my surprise, the headless architecture that Sanity is built around makes this into a terribly simple task;
• The carousel in each reel is a Vue component and this meant I had the chance to bond with it much more than before. What made it even more enjoyable was Astro - they get along really well and with nanospaces it becomes a real powerhouse;
• I kept the CLI tool in the back of my mind for the entire duration of the work sprint and despite it helping a big deal in certain aspects, it felt it’s not yet there in others.

More about these in future posts. Todeloo!