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I write words here. And maybe other things too.

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what I read in January

Fiction:

Chainfire -- Terry Goodkind

Phantom -- Terry Goodkind

Confessor -- Terry Goodkind

The Grace of Kings -- Ken Liu

The Wall of Storms -- Ken Liu

Iron Gold -- Pierce Brown

Nonfiction:

Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed -- Jon Ronson

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics -- Dan Harris

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phase whatever

I feel like I’ve spent way too much time on back end/ flux heavy stuff that recruiters won’t ever spend any time on. still need to finish friends and search and do a ton of css

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phase 3

toasts are acting really weird. no idea why. badly need to refactor.

goals for today: clean up code. hopefully finish everything except search. hopefully hopefully get search done as well.

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Phase 3

Made pretty good progress. Almost all of my mvp components are in place, if not exactly how I want them. My code is a mess, though. I’d like to refactor and do everything with the router, but I’m not sure how to, and I don’t think I have time.

goals for today: get friends and comments/toasts done. shouldn’t be too hard, hopefully. Would like to have time to get guest login and a little styling done before peer reviews at 3, but that’s not really that important to me. better to be on track functionality wise and get shitty reviews than look nice and fall behind. Search feature will probably have to be pushed back to tomorrow., unfortunately. 

tl:dr everything still looks like grey boxes, but at least most of the grey boxes do what they’re supposed to.

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yesss

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weekend/phase2/3

Most of my basic components are there. Not necessarily working, but there.

had a lot of trouble with react-bootstrap fucking up dependencies and had to refactor to remove it from everything.

goals for today: fix navbar Links, fill out beer index and show pages. hopefully get friends/comments/toasts set up so I can do the search element by tomorrow and start styling soon.

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phase 2

got most of the flux architecture set up. Got a basic user show page set up with reviews. Working on CRUD for reviews.

Decided to refactor basically everything to move functionality out of user store.

to do today: finish refactoring. make sure everything is only doing what it’s supposed to.  create filters for reviews. finish phase 2. work on css if time. 

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now I am the git push heroku master

spent the entire morning yesterday debugging a nasty heroku issue with Jade and Asher. Bugs that aren’t actually errors are the worst. Turned out to be a combination of bundle.js being gitignored and assets being precompiled locally, which resulted in subsequent pushes to heroku deploying successfully, but with old precomplied assets instead of an updated bundle.js. Along the way we figured out that you can heroku run bash, which is waaaaay more helpful for debugging heroku than most of its error messages. 

Got most of single page auth set up. sign up/sign in/sign out all work. sign in takes user to their home “page”. still working on getting sign up error messages to display correctly. some of the JSON apis are done. I’m slightly behind due to the amount of time spent debugging heroku.

Goals for today: finish JSON/jbuilder API. Build as much flux architecture as possible. implement review CRUD.

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phase 1

Got basic auth set up yesterday, then decided that I wanted to do sign up/sign in using react instead. Got a modal-esque thing vaguely working, but it’s not showing up correctly in heroku. Also it’s not actually connected to the api. And it doesn’t look quite right.

goals for today: finish setting up single-page auth. create JSON api’s for everything. keep working on styling stuff.

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w8d1/w8d2: starting final projects

yesterday was frustrating. I was super tired and struggled with pretty much every step of the bench bnb project. I barely even got to the parts that are relevant to my project.

In other news, I’m going to slightly change up the format of these posts. And try to actually do them right, because I think it will be helpful for me. 

Goals for today: Complete as much of Phase 1 as possible. I’d really like to have all of the user authentication done by the end of the day, and hopefully will have forms done for signing up, signing in, and signing out, so that I can really focus on JSON/jbuilder API’s tomorrow 

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w7d5

bench bnb

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w7d4

the plural of pokemon is pokemon, not pokemons. ActiveRecord probably doesn’t know that though.

I think we hit just about every possible bug we could today. I would have liked to get further into the react router stuff, as I have a feeling it will be really useful for my final project.

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w7d3

Today we practiced the flux pattern by creating something called an organ grinder, which is not an awful sounding goregrind band but rather an awful sounding piano app.

edit: it  is also in fact the name of an awful goregrind band:

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w7d2

Made a pretty basic app using react. Finally had an excuse to use the awesome faker gem for nonsense seed data.

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w7d1

Started React today. The basic pattern of it is pretty intuitive, and I think it will get more so with repeated practice.

The widgets project was really frustrating. We spent a  lot more time messing around with date objects and the weather api than we did on the react parts. Super frustrating when the new thing is easy and the old thing that’s supposed to show you how to use it isn’t. Though I guess being able to figure out unfriendly/poorly documented api’s is a useful skill. Basically, when in doubt, keep googling shit until you have some idea what’s going on.

Also, I have an idea for a final project that I think will hit the trifecta of using basically everything we’ve learned so far, being slick-looking, user-friendly, and highly interactive, and (probably) not actually being all that difficult. It’s not on the provided list of clones “inspirations” but I’d be pretty surprised if it didn’t get approved.

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W6d5

Managed to get pretty far on the jQuery/ajax Twitter project despite having to spend the first half hour or so dealing with the fact that we initially couldn't db:create on account of our computer somehow had Postgres installed like 3 1/2 times or something.

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w6d4

$l(”text”).append(”It’s pretty neat that a library that’s as powerful and widely used as jQuery doesn’t really use much that we can’t create ourselves at this point”);