Site Colors, AI Tools, & Alcohol Consumption

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Let’s jump into the 5 things you need to know…

#1 Site Colors in Membership Extension

I’m continually adding new things to the Chrome Extension, which is part of the Code Curious the membership. The most recent release, a Colors & Fonts panel that gives you easy access to the hex and hsla color values of your website and the css for your header and paragraph fonts. Become a member today to get access to this and a TON more.

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#2 - Use AI Coding Tools with Squarespace

There are a lot of AI Coding tools out there: Lovable, Replit, v0, Bolt, Base44, but it’s hard to understand how to use them with your Squarespace website. In this tutorial, I use Lovable to go from idea to fully functional Mortgage Calculator embedded in a Squarespace site. It’s probably easier than you think.

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#3 - Alcohol Consumption at 90 Year Low

Gallup just released a new poll that says U.S. alcohol consumption is at a 90 year low. I don’t know why I find this so surprising, but it’s kinda wild to me to think about college kids these days being sober-curious and serving mocktails at their frat parties.

Because we like to be contrarian and fight against societal trend and noms, Ren and I have enrolled in an 8-week wine tasting course. Why, you may ask? Well, 1) we needed to get out of the house and interact with three-dimensional humans more and 2) being unsuspectingly wine-savvy seems like a fun party trick. So while the rest of America is drinking less and less, we will be sniffing and swishing and spitting our way through a WSET Wine Level 2 class.

I definitely get the health implications of drinking less though, and while I still enjoy an adult beverage from time to time I guess my own drinking habits have lessened over the last few years… although I attribute most of that to adult-onset hangovers rather than self-discipline or better adherence to meeting my health goals.

I’m curious how many of you feel like your relationship with alcohol has changed lately? If you’re not cheersing, what vices are you subbing in for alcohol? THC? Doomscrolling? Binge watching trash TV? Diet Coke? Healthy Relationships? Lately, for me it’s probably been ordering take out.

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#4 - Circle Day Emcee

I’m gonna be an Online Emcee for the Circle Day Livestream on September 17th. I’ll be taking the morning shift and will be your online host in between the presentations. Be sure to register online if you haven’t already, and if you’re coming in person be sure to come up say hi!

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#5 Is AI Taking Our Jobs?

In our final episode of the season, Christy and I discussed what we’d do if we lost our jobs to AI, how AI is shifting the web design industry, what tools we’re using, and our mindset shifts as we enter into this new AI age.

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This is a repost from 2 weeks ago, but it was a good one so i thought I’d share it again.

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Additional Curious Coder updates down below, but that’s all from me today. Hope you all have a great rest of your week!

Keep Building,
Will

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