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...

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).

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.

Only got ~6hrs of sleep, so try taking 120mg of lycopene...emailed back the WorkTime rep b/c their software isn't tracking any activity, it's crazy for it to be so broken in such a basic way...ask on Upwork forums if identity verification ever needs to happen again...created a Jira board for managing studying system design...started a pastebin system for rehearsing basic system design patterns daily b/c that's been working well for studying DSAs...feeling anxiety today, presumably from all the caffeine yesterday, so I'm going to take some Caffeine+ capsules to see if the extra vitamins in it makes the anxiety go away...run the Algolia HN API request that I found in the hnjobs repo in Postman as a first step towards grabbing those jobs myself...spent 30 minutes feeling anxious about what the next step should be, thinking I should set up the backend pulling jobs, before changing my mind and deciding I want to be able to use a frontend UI to connect my email address and then press a button to have the backend send an Gmail email for me...

today was my first day actually doing Go development instead of just tutorials: took a magnesium tablet b/c I felt anxious last night, I think from the caffeine in the cocoa I had been drinking; copied my frontend code from my flask/vuetify template repo to my go/vuetify template repo; confirmed I can serve the frontend code locally; installed Go; drank an iced cocoa; successfully started my 'Hello World' main.go backend file as a web app server; asked ChatGPT for help converting my "POST /users/" request to use Go; created a Go module; installed Postman macOS; took a 15min break after an hour; got my frontend app "talking to" my Go backend (successfully returned "Hello World" and had it on-screen in my frontend app); added Go middleware to log every request to the console so I can see what is happening; renamed my (default) branch from 'master' to 'main'; got live reloading for my Go backend (it automatically reloads the backend when I make changes to the code); confirmed my "POST /users/" returns 201 when I use the frontend registration form; came up with a task for tomorrow: get "POST /api/session" working; set up PyCharm to be able to explore my SQLite db from within the DB toolbar; confirmed that my user registration created a new user record in the db

Felt great upon waking up after taking 300mcg melatonin last night before bed; today getting login working: figured out how to translate the email/password validators used in Let's Go Further to Huma's way of doing input validation so the API will return an error if the email/password don't pass basic sanity checks; figured out how to return a 404 error with Huma if the user isn't found in the database; got the code working that checks the supplied password against the hashed password in the db and returns a 401 error if they don't match; pushed pass my normal 2-hour daily work limit to get the endpoint working (returning a token) so I can move on to something else because this sucks. Next up (tomorrow): get the front-end to receive/save the auth token and send it when signing in / etc. #govuetifytemplate

Finally got Dokku working with my frontend. Documented my issues here: github.com/dokku/dokku/issues… Tomorrow: figure out what to do next. Maybe look at my Google Tasks, old Trello, etc.

Make an iced cocoa (20g of pure cocoa, so as much caffeine as a cup of tea) by myself for the first time in my life; spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out how to get Go to store my user password hashed; ran into an issue using the 'air' live reloader where it wasn't working after I redid the project structure, and it didn't have useful error messages or documentation to help me figure out what setting I needed to set to get it to work again; got past the air issue, it turns out I had to specify the directories to watch and without any leading "./"; created a user via the Vuetify app and confirmed that the password is hashed on the backend; created a Stack Overflow Q&A explaining how I fixed the issue for future newbies; committed my code. Set a goal for tomorrow: implement the authenticationHandler.

Started work on a Go+Vuetify+Digital Ocean template, copied over the parts of my README for my Flask+Vuetify+Digital Ocean template that should also apply here. Feeling good about making forward progress towards making Go apps instead of staying stuck in tutorial hell.

Started going through the "Let's Go" ebook, started my first Go web app.

I've been shipping like crazy / but so frantic - I haven't remembered to post! Got all the initial modules/workshops transferred over to the temp www.skool.com/design-for-the-… experiment. Getting organic signups! Hooked up some tricky little connectors so those people can access the associated material from the PE site. Did some interviews. Set up an ad campaign. Made a ton of new content. #pe Lets go. I'm excited to get back to "Added clear feature" mode at some point.

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

🍟 Side Project Weekend - quality of life improvements: Added current streak to Telegram notification and success banner. Deployed changes to Heroku, incl. prev commit updating the updateAccount fn to work with register fn. #lifelog

half the day on website messaging; EXCITED for this 10x improvement in messaging. next to put these handwritten changes to work on main, get(partner) and dpp websites. #downpayment

Managed to fix Heroku Git, thanks to ChatGPT! Deployed the 2 features made over last weekend - time hop, and download archive #lifelog

Throw in the towel with my Bitbucket + Vercel connection after more hours of troubleshooting (I haven't encountered this issue previously around BB workspaces and there seems to be no way around it without paying) so throw up the repo on GH instead thus breaking my simplifying tools rule but all setup and working within three minutes #creativity

Worked really hard on the boilerplate. Got it to a decent shape. Project is now fully generated by cookiecutter, need to do further testing to ensure tailwind is fully integrated, and then testing for deployments.

Scrolling, understanding the new codebase for freelancing work. Asking lots of questions using GPT. Checking Vue dev tools. Cmd+clicking through to component files. Got familiar enough. Will dive deep into coding my first feature next week! #indiejourney #decodingcoding

[Turn on 🔊 for video] 🍟 Side project weekend: Deployed to Heroku all new features and fixes done over weekend - ambient sounds for writing, Wayback Machine archive for rich text editor, and some style improvements. Now you can have rain in the forest sounds combined! 🌳🌧🌳 #lifelog

spent an hour implementing CRUD functionality on the yelpcamp example in WDB2024 from my notes and memory - and got *most* of it right! #learning