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 If that sounds familiar – don’t worry. I’ve been there too. ❤
 
-Hi, I’m Sophie [@marsianer](https://www.codedex.io/@MarSianer), a lvl. 6 learner based in Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪 and am currently on my day 46 streak on Codédex! I recently won the [May Monthly Challenge: Lightning Talk](https://www.codedex.io/community/monthly-challenge/aZwonmhOYu8BWfZLpGZK?tab=winners) where I made a fun slide deck on this topic and the community LOVED it. The Codédex team liked it too and invited me to turn it into a blog post! Yay!
+Hi, I’m Sophie [@marsianer](https://www.codedex.io/@MarSianer), a lvl. 6 learner based in Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪 and am currently on my day 46 streak on Codédex! I recently won the [May Monthly Challenge: Lightning Talk](https://www.codedex.io/community/monthly-challenge/aZwonmhOYu8BWfZLpGZK?tab=winners), where I made a fun slide deck on this topic, and the community LOVED it. The Codédex team liked it too and invited me to turn it into a blog post! Yay!
 
 To make your coding journey way more fun (and actually effective), I stumbled upon something that changed everything for me: building cool real-world projects (that are cool, of course)! 😎
 
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 ## 1. Timer
 
-If you love soft, juicy eggs, you know how frustrating it is when you forget them on the stove and end up boiling them for 20 minutes (or is that too niche?!). Maybe this is your sign to create an egg timer! 🤩 You could also make a chill little meditation timer with calming sounds, a Pomodoro timer for your study sessions or even a workout interval timer for your HIIT exercises. This is a project you'll genuinely enjoy and find useful in real life.
+If you love soft, juicy eggs, you know how frustrating it is when you forget them on the stove and end up boiling them for 20 minutes (or is that too niche?!). Maybe this is your sign to create an egg timer! 🤩 You could also make a chill little meditation timer with calming sounds, a Pomodoro timer for your study sessions or even a workout interval timer for your HIIT exercises. This is a project you'll genuinely enjoy _and_ find useful in real life.
 
 ✨ Some cool timer projects:
 
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 ## 3. Generator
 
-Sometimes you just get stuck deciding what to wear or eat for lunch, right? 😏 This category is all about making fun, little “decision helpers” that generate ideas for you. 💡 Think outfit generators like the one Cher used in Clueless to plan her looks! 👗 Or try creating custom avatar generators to design your own cute digital characters!
+Sometimes you just get stuck deciding what to wear or eat for lunch, right? 😏 This category is all about making fun, little “decision helpers” that generate ideas for you. 💡 Think outfit generators like the one Cher used in _Clueless_ to plan her looks! 👗 Or try creating custom avatar generators to design your own cute digital characters!
 
 ✨ Resources for cute generators:
 
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 ## 9. Quiz
 
-The [Codédex April 2024 Challenge](https://www.codedex.io/community/monthly-challenge/JDOP2gqJh12IalbyRy6Y) is a goldmine of fun personality quizzes. Once you check them out, you’ll see how one simple quiz can be turned into so many cool and creative versions. They’re super fun to make because you can build them around literally anything! So, what kind of quiz would you like to create? 🤔
+The [Codédex April 2024 Challenge](https://www.codedex.io/community/monthly-challenge/JDOP2gqJh12IalbyRy6Y) is a goldmine of fun personality quizzes. Once you check them out, you’ll see how one simple quiz can be turned into so many cool and creative versions. They’re super fun to make because you can build them around literally _anything_! So, what kind of quiz would you like to create? 🤔
 
 ✨ Check out some community favorites:
 
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 - What do I wish existed?
 - What do I like outside of coding? Reading? Music? Games?
-- What do I really want to create? Not for a job application, but for myself.
+- What do I _really_ want to create? Not for a job application, but for myself.
 - What can I build for my friends & family, my local community, or even the world?
 
 Write down all your ideas, think about how you’d design them and which programming languages you’d use. Take notes, draw little sketches, and make that crazy, cool idea happen! 😍