building YelpCamp as part of WDB2024 - this is more like it, properly applying learning #learning

completed section 28 - AJAX and APIs - and i'm going to spend a little time building sample apps to play with this! WDB2024 #learning

spent an hour writing up the last section code in my 'learning manual' for future reference, explaining the routes used, model, schema, and all the rest of it. writing it down after following the lessons reinforces the learning! #learning

WDB2024 section 28 - AJAX and APIs - getting really stuck in and learning a hell of a lot! #learning

Back on WDB2024 - learning about creating RESTful routes and API methods

back on WDB2024 section 36: learning about Mongo DB and basic CRUD operations. #learning

Did CRUD, form and validation work today for new project! Saved time by avoiding cleverness on date fields and just going with simple framework defaults with Flatpickr

completed another section of WDB2024 - now we're getting into error catching and validation of data from forms, and this is getting tough! #learning

getting back onto the streak by completing section 34 - EJS templating and partials. WDB2024 #learning

finished section 36 on learning mongodb as part of WDB2024, and avoiding the temptation to look into php and laravel... #learning

finished section 25 of WBD bootcamp 24, now into building a little widget as a test... slow progress, but I'm getting there. #learning

spending a little time in WDB2024 learning EJS template tags #learning

1 hour of WDB 2024 on EJS templates... #learning

more learning! nearly finished section 25: Dom Events (WDB Bootcamp 2024) #learning

complete section 26 of WDB2024 and learn some important lessons about refactoring #learning

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.

work further on the next lesson: outlined all crucial and some optional elements of a landing page and made some first notes on each (more like brain-storming and from the material I had collected); also, for a future lesson, I broke down the structure of an exisiting landing page that's still live and working. #freewritecamp

completed my first ever todo on WIP 👍

I was super disappointed in the front end masters "intro to databases course" - so, I started building out the materials I wish I had: perpetual.education/resources… -- long day! So, that's the first round -

keep on learning - working my way through callbacks in Section 27 of WDB2024 #learning