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 😐.

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Nov 19, 2017

Squash Tomato Journal — November 18, 2017–02:00

Refactored all my client-side JavaScript functions to be pure.
Added list functionality to my Squash Tomato documentation.
Removed the /home route from the site, which took users to their list.

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Nov 15, 2017

Squash Tomato Journal — November 15, 2017–00:00

Began writing a blog post on how to use Socket.io in a MVC app.
Worked with a few friends who had experience with WebSockets.
Started to realize that my backend logic for Squash Tomato wouldn’t be…

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Nov 7, 2017

Capitalizing on Thanksgiving

Marketing, features, and bug fixes for the holiday

Thanksgiving is a holiday of stuffing our fat faces with turkey, mash potatoes, rolls, casseroles, and pumpkin pie. But does it stand for something greater? I sure…

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Nov 7, 2017

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…

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Nov 4, 2017

What to focus on when bootstrapping an application

On November 1st, I launched Squash Tomato. It was my first product launch. Hell, it was my first product! But, even being my first product and my first launch, I’ve learned so much about what’s really important to focus on. Here’s what I…