The Squash and the Tomato

Is it sexist: a landing-page case study

This may very well be the most self-annoying, sour post I will write this year.

About me (important to read — will help later)

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…