Hacking Athena

Day 2: Rubberducking with my Medium post

>>>Daily summary

I started the morning off right with a mentor meeting in SOMA.

In prep for this meeting, I poked around for some “how the internet works” videos and came across a sad little pattern; all the…

Day 16: Everything is broken. Typical.

>>> Brief summary == Where I struggled

Things are definitely getting harder at a much faster rate than I am getting better. I tried to put my login/signup forms back in a modal window today and I pretty much broke all of my routes…

Day 6–7: the login ship has not yet set sail

>>> Brief Summary

As it’s the weekend, I’ll combine my journal posts about the last 48 hours into one, though I actively worked on Athena both days. However, most of that time was not actually spent in my app at all, but…

Day 29–30 and beyond: Reflections on the first thing I made.

Day 17: Home-grown validation

>>> Brief summary

First off, I created a landing page with my login/signup modal window, fixed the routes that lead out from that, and learned the capital of Mauritania. It’s Nouakchott.

Days 25–28: The end is near

>>> Brief overview

Forgive me Medium for I have sinned. It has been four days since my last post.

I really needed a break these past four days. I didn’t get one, of course; it’s the last big push of our sprint towards code freeze…