Alright, let’s talk about this “alex burdon” thing. I stumbled upon this name, and figured, why not see what the hype is all about?
So, first thing I did was a good old search. You know, just googled “alex burdon”. A bunch of stuff came up, obviously, but I was looking for something specific – a project, a blog, some code, anything tangible I could actually do something with. I wasn’t really finding anything that grabbed my attention right away.
Then, I started digging a little deeper. Added some keywords to my searches, like “alex burdon project”, “alex burdon github” (hoping for some open-source goodness), “alex burdon tutorial”. Bingo! I finally landed on a few interesting links. One was a personal website (looked kinda dated, but hey, everyone starts somewhere), and the other was a profile on some online coding platform.
I decided to check out the coding platform first. Saw some projects listed there, mostly small stuff, but it looked like a good place to start. I picked one that seemed relatively simple – a basic web app using JavaScript. Figured I could clone the repo and try running it locally.
Cloning the repo was easy enough, just a quick git clone. Then came the fun part: actually getting it to work. Turns out there were a few dependencies missing, so I had to do some npm install magic to get everything set up. Of course, there were a couple of dependency conflicts (because why would it be easy?), but after some fiddling around, I managed to resolve them.
Finally, I fired up the app using npm start, and… it worked! Well, kind of. The UI was a bit wonky, and some of the features weren’t working as expected. But hey, at least it was running.
Next, I started poking around the code, trying to figure out what was going on. Spent a good couple of hours just reading through the JavaScript, trying to understand how everything was structured. Found a few bugs here and there, mostly typos and minor logic errors. Fixed them as I went along, and slowly but surely, the app started to behave a bit better.
I even added a small feature of my own – a little UI tweak that I thought would make the app more user-friendly. It was nothing major, but it felt good to actually contribute something to the project.
The website? Well, that was a dead end. Looked like it hadn’t been updated in years. But the coding platform stuff was cool, I might even reach out and see if I can contribute more.
So, yeah, that’s pretty much my “alex burdon” adventure. It wasn’t groundbreaking, but it was a fun little exercise. Learned a few things, fixed a few bugs, and even got to add my own little touch to something. Not bad for an afternoon’s work.
