Startup Life

Squash Tomato Journal — December 04, 2017–08:40

1. A user reported some issue with the way labels were working on input fields — essentially, I wasn’t listening for the right events for users to tab through inputs, so I updated it with the following code:

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…

Squash Tomato Journal — December 02, 2017–22:00

Been working early mornings instead of nights and I went to Nodevember, so I missed a few days of work due to that (I did some work, but nothing worth making a post over.

1. Pushed an update that keeps the $$$ total in view…

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 — November 24, 2017–01:00

1. Commented out all list controller and client-side code.
2. Was worried about checking for permissions on each list controller method, which could run 100x before a reload (methods handle API request to do things such as add…

Squash Tomato Journal — November 20, 2017–22:00

1. Working on what I’m now calling, “The Permission Pass.”
2. Debugging a controller running 4 times for a route (/my-lists/:username/:list) — didn’t figure it out, but it relates to the :keys in the route. Each :key is…

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

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

Squash Tomato Journal — November 12, 2017–11:30

1. Organized the future functionality of family lists
2. Searched for realtime solutions for my user interface. I wanted users of the same list to see the changes another was making as soon as they changed them. I came upon…

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…