Nao got her blog done...

nao mori

Leverkusen
Hello, I'm a software developer. I'm taking notes on things I learned hoping others find them interesting too!

Simplest Way to Achieve Blurry Loading Images on your React App without any Libraries

5/15/2020

When providing high quality images to users especially the ones with slower internet, it's important to tell them that images are being loaded. So I'm gonna share how to display blurry images while loading the actual images on React app withou any plugins / libraries just like I did in

react
react hooks
image
loading
UX

77 Days of Duolingo... Was it a waste of time?

4/25/2020

I moved to Germany this year, and I'm so eager to learn German. I am obsessed with how fast I learn... why? Who wants to spend years to learn a language?? Duolingo is a language learning app that is more of an old school app that is very popular. And it is often criticized for teaching sentences like 'This person eats bread

learning
language
Duolingo
app
study
German
English

Make your AWS website load faster in 1 minute (S3 / CloudFront)

3/26/2020

It's important to save your users' time and data for a better user experience. Here are steps to make your AWS S3 / CloudFront websites load significantly faster even if you finished deploying and you don't want to make changes to your project.

AWS
S3
CloudFront
website
deployment

How I Turned my ADHD Tendencies into my Strengths

3/14/2020

There are good days where you are so focused and spend the entire day being so productive. However, there are also bad days where you are just being stressed by your tasks and waste your time. How can you make every day a good day? There are tips to do that.

ADHD
productivity
motivation
work

Why I choose not to live in Japan (People / Culture)

3/4/2020

I was born in Kyoto (Japan) and moved to Tokyo (Japan) as I entered a high school. Last year I graduated university and decided to move to Germany this year. Before getting to the point I just want to clarify that I love Japan, and it is one of my favorite cities to travel. If I had to stay in Japan I would still enjoy living there.

life
Japan
culture
people

My Journey

New York
New York
London
Cologne
Tokyo
Los Angeles