I finished adding some basic content to the home page today. The first bits look like this:
Had some things come up at work recently and got off track with my side project routine. Finally got back into it today and it felt like I had totally lost my place. Didn’t make much progress, but I’m trying not to get discouraged…
Finished up the initial creation of a writing prompt. A visitor can now go from the initial home page to a simple form with one text area and enter their next prompt. Simple, boring Rails form stuff.
Got phone number storage and testing squared away today. Ended up with these columns in the phone table, which feels simple and clean:
numbertokenconfirmed_at
Still struggling with cookies today. Finally found a way to set a cookie in my test, have it show up in my controller, and then return to the test again, but it doesn’t seem like the right way. Here’s what I have:
cookies["token"] =…
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.
Still fighting with tests for my phone first sign-in process today. After trying a few different things, I’ve written a test helper function to simulate visiting the site as a certain…
Feeling a little stuck today. Sat in front of the computer and worked through some testing issues related to signup, but don’t feel like I’m getting anywhere. Need to step away for a bit and clear my head. Hoping for more progress tomorrow.
Yesterday I connected the application to Spotify and it returned some basic data. Today I worked on letting the visitor know that they’re signed in and showing them something different.
I’m getting some real data from Spotify now. I started by pulling the saved albums and it didn’t work as expected. I thought that the saved albums endpoint would include every album where I’ve saved a song, but it seems like it only includes the…