Day 1

Worked on the next step of the visitor sign up process for Prompt today. The flow now goes like this:

Landing page > new prompt form > add phone number form

The phone number form is very simple. I designed this page with a selection box for country and also with a…

Day 5

Set up confirmation tokens for phone number verification today. It’s a pretty straightforward process to create your own.

When a new number is added, generate a unique token when you store the number. The point is to have something you can use to identify your phone number record, but isn’t…

Day 4

Got phone number storage and testing squared away today. Ended up with these columns in the phone table, which feels simple and clean:

number
token
confirmed_at

delight.fm: day 10

Persisting… a hash

A couple days ago, I was stuck with an issue that I was having integrating some third-party code into my project. Happy to say I got unstuck! 🎉

Day 3

More work on phone number sign up today. Still figuring out how to store and confirm phone numbers. To give a little more information on the process, here are the fields I‘m working with to sign someone up via a phone number:

delight.fm: day 1

Getting started

Started in on my next 6-week project today. Always fun to start something new. Did some mockups in Balsamiq. I’ll try to show some of the interesting bits tomorrow.

delight.fm: day 13

Working with jobs

I’m retrieving artist and album data successfully, but it’s taking a while to process. The tracks in a Spotify library are retrieved in batches and then processed to extract the other parts (artists/albums). Works great. The problem is that…

delight.fm: day 8

Working with third-party code

I started preparing to retrieve album information today. Logging in with Spotify is working well and I need to figure out how to reconnect when needed to in order to do things besides just log in.

delight.fm: days 14 & 15

UI updates and importing new albums

Yesterday I worked on some design updates. Now that the artist importing is working, I discovered that there are occasionally artists who don’t have an image available. Or at least it’s not coming…

Day 19

Little things add up

Finished undo-ing my phone number experiment today. That rabbit trail hurt a bit.

Have to remember to keep it simple. No, simpler than that. The simplest thing that could possibly work. Then add another little essential thing…