The Squash and the Tomato

Squash Tomato Journal — Nov. 6, 2017–11:30

Took a short break, back to it.

1. Bug fix: on mobile, double tapping on an item label wasn’t firing a double click event listener because the text was being highlighted instead, so I added ‘user-select: none’ to any label with an…

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

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…

1. Added password length requirements to my passport-local register flow — new requirement shown in password and password-confirm input boxes (placeholder=”Your password must be 9 characters or greater”)
2. Setup a Medium…

Squash Tomato Journal — Oct. 29, 2017–01:38

1. Added completing functionality to list functions.
2. Replaced Mailtrap.io (test api service for emailing from an application) with Postmark App to handle sending emails for password resets.

Squash Tomato Journal — Oct. 30, 2017–23:45

1. Debugged why the new google analytics global tag script wasn’t working — turns out, it’s just buggy. I switched to another tracking method, analytics.js, and it works perfectly!
2. Added a countdown timer to Nov. 1st at noon.