Deciding on your next feature

How to decide what to build next

When we launch something, we only ship the bare necessities. We don’t build out a whole spanking, mind blowing feature set. We don’t build a shiny, ego-bloating load of a shit we assume our users…

The Permission Pass

Using Mongo, Express, Pug, and Node.js (with a bit of Socket.io)

Tip for you: saying you’re working on “permissions” doesn’t give anyone a fucking clue what you’re really doing. Trust me, I know from experience 😐.

Squash Tomato Journal — December 03, 2017–18:00

1. Fixed bug — on email login, the email input wasn’t being lower cased, which would cause an error — “user doesn’t exist” — when you register with your email, it stores it all lower cased. You’d essentially be logging in with an email that doesn’t…

The bullshit that is a fancy coffee mug

Fancy coffee mugs are the fucking worst.

Squash Tomato Journal — Oct. 23, 2017 —23:30

1. Fucking forgot to change my port over from 7777 to 80 when I transferred a test to my droplet… spent 2 hours “diagnosing” (yelling at my computer) the issue until I happened to accidentally open my environment variables.

Squash Tomato Journal — November 9, 2017–02:00

1. Updated buttons on landing page from ‘Start Using Now’ to ‘Sign Up Now,’ because my older users were constantly trying to register each time they visited with the same registration information, which of course, throws an error saying an account…

The squash and the tomato

Welcome to the story of a squash and a tomato, or Squash Tomato (I couldn’t get squashedtomato.com 😆 ).

You could consider this a journal, scientific paper 😂 , or the story of building my first product. You’ll find confusing and coffee-driven posts on my…