How to Get Past the Blahs and Finish Your Project

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The craziest! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes! Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax! Today, I have a case of the Blas. And how do we get past the
0:34.0	Blas and finish your project? The end section of a project where you're just
0:39.0	feeling that lack of productivity and that lack of burst of energy that you feel
0:44.0	at the beginning of a product. And this isn't everybody but certainly as me, my name is
0:48.0	Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Dead for Colorado and with me is always
0:51.0	Wes Boss. Hey, everybody! I was talking to Scott about this because I am finishing my
0:57.0	office. And I was like, you know, this is no different than a coding project where
1:03.0	the last little bit, the last push is just like, I don't feel like doing this. I
1:10.0	want to do other things now. You know, I have other stuff I need to do, but
1:15.0	it needs to get done. And it feels like that last 10% takes forever. So we're
1:20.0	going to give some tips on how to push through that and finish up your project.
1:24.0	Actually, ship the dang thing so you can move on to something else.
1:28.0	Yeah, I'm very much in need of an episode like this because I've been working on a
1:34.0	redesign for a little while now. I want to say a few months now. And it was
1:39.0	intended to be a few months. But we're a few months in. The site's as far, like,
1:43.0	it's far enough where it feels good to use for the most part. But there's maybe
1:47.0	like two or three things on every single page that need to get worked on or
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