no coding day, finally have time to go through 30dayStartup material

Kind of scatterbrained today. Spent time chatting with someone who could act as a consultant if I try to develop a module for rally-the-troops.com as a way to build confidence with pure-JS UIs, as a stepping stone towards a second attempt at working on my rap-IDE idea. Also spent some time chatting back-and-forth with a local YouTuber, it looks like my concept for a video won't fit into his particular video style.

Talked a.friwnd and colleague for a website and played around with a new WordPress 🙈 stack = about 60 % done #jodaworks

Spent 90 minutes trying to figure out what I should do next for #cmx1course

Spent time fleshing out the 'How to choose a rap name' public wiki page. www.rhymecraft.guru/wiki/disp… #rhymecraft

Made a website from scratch in two hours and did a recording of my techniques and progress: (1) www.useloom.com/share/a1737ea… (2) www.useloom.com/share/aa09f52…

Rewrite code i spent a day on in an hour that actually works.

waste 10 minutes looking at domains that I don't need

Created public wiki page "How Rappers Chose Their Names" for research for my 'rap name creator' idea and for SEO. www.rhymecraft.guru/wiki/disp… #rhymecraft

Wrote out 2 new project outlines: one to essentially build a wordpress-like CMS and one to build out a social network akin to the original MySpace. Planned out a new video showing the very most basic “full-stack” framework you could build while covering all essential concepts. Researched and bought the right mount to mount a new screen behind my wall-mounted camera. #pe Left the office early and took my partner out to some much needed Indian food and Poppyfields. Reading “How music works” (David Byrne)

Spent some time reorganizing my archive #chores

Only got ~5hrs of sleep after two double espressos yesterday, so I took a Lycopene capsule...signed up for a LinkedIn Premium free trial so I could send a message to a Kasikorn backend engineer to ask why users can't export their transaction history in CSV format...removed the 'Blog' link on nw.com b/c I don't have the WordPress blog up and I never really used the blog that much, added a link to my email address instead so people can contact me...started going through the Kasikorn API "Slip Verification" challenges...got the first one done...the second one requires I have SSL set up on my domain and not through Cloudflare...discovered while doing that that my whatdo site is returning a 404 if I try to sign in...got GoLand's db tool connecting to the digital ocean postgres db b/c I noticed that wasn't set up yet...install postgres on my macbook b/c something got messed up and somehow it seemed to not be installed...got all the db problems fixed, don't know how that happened...now having a CORS issue when running locally, all this stuff was working, IDK how it all broke...ok I remember now, I YOLO'd the backend code and disabled the existing router to get the Line echo bot working...sent an email to another local YouTuber to ask if I can be in a video with him...installed cursor and tried using it for a simple refactor task to get a sense of how it works...figured out a way (thanks to ChatGPT) to get the Line callback handler working while also not breaking the existing routes...went for a massage to give my brain cells some time to recover...used cursor some more and I get the hype, this is really cool, I'm surprised Jetbrains hasn't copied it yet...after a long while I finally got my whatdo backend working properly again (auth + user middleware working), it was a good learning experience with cursor and Go...got a GitHub Action set up so my DO dokku VPS will update when I push to main, so now both frontend and backend will update automatically when I push to GitHub...ending the day on this banger set: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2340… Tomorrow: I need to bill hours to my client to make $, I want to try to finish the KBank API challenge to see if I can do the Slip Verification, I want to email another YouTuber, if I have any time left over I want to keep going with that Line/ChatGPT bot and try to make a frontend interface for it.

Just spent some time thinking about the app. #rhymecraft

sit in front of some php after 1 week of not looking at code #life

Spent time thinking about how I should spend my time (what I should try to build). #rhymecraft

Zombie mode today 💀. I only got one hour of sleep last night. Accidentally got obsessed coding embedly into my site, then ripped it all out, set up iframely, ripped it out, too, then went back to embedly. Iframely works better, and looks better, but can expand fewer links. Grr. Nothing worse than pulling a coding all-nighter with nothing to show for it.