blog post week 4

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+Working on the firefox extension project as a group was an overall very good experience for me. I enjoyed the collaborative aspect of the project and how we were able to split up taska and delegate them out. Most projects that I have worked on in school have been solo projects, so it was cool to see how much faster development of the project went with more people. I personally did some of the design and worked on a lot of the underlying JavaScript code for the alarm clock. After completing the extension, I know many more things than I did before. For one, I know the basic process of creating a Firefox extension using a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I would like to in the future work on another Firefox extension or attempt to make my own. I also very much enjoyed watching other presentations and trying out other groups' projects. My favorite extension among the other groups was the pomodoro timer extension. I think it is designed super well and very intuitive to use. When I am studying or doing a lot of work, I very frequently utilize a pomodoro clock to improve efficiency. For that reason, I will certainly use the pomodoro clock extension in the future. 

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+This past week I have worked with my group to create our browser extension called insult reminders. This is the first open source project that I have worked on as well as the first browser extension I have tried to make. It has been a little bit difficult to style the browser extension as well as to get the html to correctly update with the JavaScript but it is doable. This has been a great learning experience as I have been able to practice working on a team with an open source project. I am excited to continue to contribute and develop this project.
+The in-class activity on git was very helpful. While I have used Git before, I have not thought critically about what each command is actually doing. I have only ever been a collaborator on a project, so I have never had to deal with upstreams and forking repositories which I found can add a layer of complexity to using Git.