stayed up late implementing backend from scratch #60sbio

Got a real good idea on which I spent most of today’s morn and afternoon. Now back working on real stuff, aim is to finish the serverless functions for the new project

Spend whole day coding

🤖 Used ChatGPT to help me finish off a GitHub Issues syncing cli tool because I'm tired of bulk creating issues in their web UI.

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.

🍟 Side Project Weekend: I'm back!! But spent all my side project weekend hours trying to get my Nuxt app working on new MBP again. Node version issues, installing NVM, creating new super user, got both frontend and backend apps running at least, then realising no local data, installing postgresql, then recalling that i used sqlite for local db, now trying to import old data into new laptop.. 😤💢 #lifelog

Spent an hour going over my app ideas to try to decide on what to work on next, settled on trying to build a Line+ChatGPT bot that will run on my Dokku droplet.

finished a day of coding on a new product and some #djangocon paperwork

recorded 3 hours of deep work and kicked of simplification of the code for my project #learnwebdev

did another 3 hours of client work to get ahead. also worked on my code gen tool a little too to speed things up

started a new dayjob side project and got about 50% feature complete #mylife

Worked on a first draft of a 1-page "how to hire and manage remote workers" PDF that I want to start sending along with my resume and possibly also use as a marketing thing for my Wailes & Company remote work management consultancy idea...drank a double espresso ~4-5hrs before my expected bedtime, I hope I don't regret this...emailed another YouTuber but w/ a slightly different email approach...continuing to learn how to use Cursor, resolved a deploy.yml error by signing into GitHub after some Googling to understand what was going on...spent a while breaking up my backend code into sub-app directories as a way of setting the stage to work on multiple app ideas at the same time, and also to continue to build familiarity with Go since I'm still very new to it...spending the time after the caffeine high has kind of worn off (3hrs post-double-espresso) just thinking about what I should work on next...decide on some next small steps for tomorrow: 1) be able to query the Algolia HN API and get back the list of HN jobs, 2) set up a new db schema for the jobs app, 3) figure out how to best use ChatGPT to analyze the different job posts (individual queries vs. some kind of batch request).

Spent a few minutes working on #peopleprogramming

Spent an hour trying to figure out what I should work on next.

talking myself out of yet another small website idea that I can totally do over lunch and then automate in an evening

Spent some time working on #peopleprogramming

Opened up my IDE just before the deadline for the day to log a TODO; got my frontend storing the auth token returned by the backend;

finished documenting some workaround for unknown errors that took me almost the whole day to fix #leifinlavida

Day 870 - The joys of coding a side project on weekends - golifelog.com/posts/the-joys-… #lifelog

Spent the whole day fixing a Manifest v3 bug, but I think I got it. We'll see if I'm brave enough to push updates to users and hopefully not DDoS my API again #blocksender