Chris Lis

Spent tonight working through another neglected area on chriscourses.com: Mobile (on all pages). Feel like my eye has gotten much better over the years, mostly thanks @steveschoger 's Refactoring UI book and doing design work every day. Shout out @andyweirdesign for the incredible homepage design btw

Spent the weekend upgrading chriscourses.com from nuxt 2 -> 4, finally made possible via opus. Tried this so many times just to quit in the first 5% of work because of how incredibly long components would take to refactor by hand. Finally allowed me to focus on design since prior every local change would take 20-30 seconds to reload due to legacy webpack bundling. Still a mixed bag when it comes to how I feel about AI, but certainly useful for dreaded tasks like refactors.

Case study #1 and landing hero complete - reused an old DNA style canvas piece I made a few years ago, think it's a great fit here for the personal brand

four most cool / unique imo

what happened to my workout goals, i forget… anyways, here’s some raw 315s for reps

free time tonight - been forever since i've sat down and worked on a video. 1 min already done, how long does it take to do a minute more? find out sooooon!

My 2025 was a year of music, fitness, and business as a W2 employee. Lots of grinding behind the scenes, but seeing a lot of payoff. - Led a show for the very first time as singer / guitarist - Performed ~5 solo open mics around NYC - Got paid to accompany a vocalist at a bar gig - Squatted 315 for first time ever - Broke ground deadlift PR (465lbs) - Got back into running for first time in 13 years - Competed in solo and double Hyrox with @jqdsouza - Helped a company IPO as a lead engineer - Made a wee bit of $ from my newest app (@mappermate) - Visited Portugal, Croatia, and Argentina Already scheduled out some of 2026, including restarting my YouTube channel and possibly creating a new one. Let's see where things go and where the world takes us with the crazy onset of AI.

Been meaning to add a @MapperMate tutorial for forever now. Finally done and pushed live. One more killer feature for the app and I think it's going to be the best tilemap editor out there.

Been working my ass off this year at next leveling my guitar playing. Finally getting to the point where I'm feeling confident with a lot of techniques that used to seem impossible (vibrato, improv, tremolo). Couple of clips from my show last night:

My quick lesson on X tabs explained:

@Rugs_07 much appreciated, just finished up, took just about an hour, so good prediction 😄 Pushing live now, looking solid—good way to share / show off maps