Fix expired SSL on backend 😬

got my personal website (nathanwailes.com/, just an index.html) working on a new $4/mo DO droplet that I intend to move everything over to while switching backends from Python to Go, nginx is way easier than Apache so far. Switched my personal site to use GitHub version control.

👨‍💻 certbot + nginx hacking

spend 10 hours redoing the database and everything related to images, going so far as to create a personal storage droplet and resizing for correct format. Learned that the ssl certificate was acting out because of click to tweet image not having httpS in the link 🙂 nice #klimy

revisiting my cookie management after getting a low score in insites.com/free-website-gdpr…

Got back into working on my HN-jobs-auto-applier: Built the UI to allow a user to click a button to connect their gmail account to my app and have it save access / refresh tokens to the backend...fixed misc things that broke for unknown reasons...got the backend deploying to digital ocean without erroring, not sure why it stopped working...currently trying to figure out why, when I ssh into my server, it seems to show me at an older commit, when my github action seems to be working without errors and having me at the newest commit...figured out that I was running the wrong command to check the current commit, IDK why an older commit was still present in some of the files...FINALLY got prod working where I can sign into gmail, upload my resume, and send an email to myself. FUCK that was so much harder than it should've been...added a netlify.toml redirect so that I can go to whatdo.com/jobs and have it load the SPA instead of 404ing...fixed a bug where a refresh token wasn't being saved to the db in prod...

built up a proxy for one of my websites to fall back on a static copy (using Jekyll to start) so that I don't break any pages or anything that won't be obvious.

Messing around with cors proxies all day to get data from a gov public endpoint that's blocked by cors/csp. Tried Github's Flat Data too (that uses GH Actions). Didn't manage to solve it. Might try Cloudflare Workers using cloudflare-cors-anywhere instead. #uvindexsg #socialimpactpatronage

Built an internal endpoint that lets me remotely force a browser to refresh the current page, which is a short term solution that will hold me over during rate limiting situations - that is until I add retries all over the codebase which is happening very soon #watchdog !private

cleanup wp stuff for golang.ch #golang

spent way too much time on finding affordable & performant proxy provider #indie

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.

upload my shit to boxspinner.com while waiting for Heroku to fix my billing so I can pay for SSL and speed

fix ssl issues #treadie

new "works in public" blog (aka follow along) for DPP working on netlify with ssl after some tweaks. #downpayment

fix ssl issue #cofounderdating

pushed thru and got the version menu done with Go + HTMX + cookies instead of starting over with PHP since i have no clue what i'm doing most of the time. it may be small but it made me happy

fix some data manually cuz ssl cert cron worker logic was changed #sslalerts #httpscop

See OpenAI throwing 403 errors for no reason while in the middle of a bench press set. Will have to check if resolved when I get back from lifting !private #watchdog

setup blog proxy for #sidehustlerocks sidehustle.rocks/blog temp hitting on my own blog though