Helped out a Carrd user with adding a responsive nav bar, and accordion dropdown faqs to his Carrd site. Learned about css flex today! Always a noob moment when
More research and planning on using Rails or JAMstack for blogging engine
Auth, payment, gated content: Researched on Netlify Identity, vs Memberstack/Memberspace for more no-code convenience
Discovered you can use env variables in Netlify! Researching and reading up about it. Slightly confused though - it kept saying the secret key will show up on the browser console anyway...so how does that keep it secret??!!
Downloaded VSCode to use as main code editor moving fwd
Read up about json apis and best practices in format https://jsonapi.org/format/
🤪 F**K YEAAAHHH! Finally solved it after a day - JSON data not displaying after initial deployment on Heroku. Had to use `heroku pg:reset` and `heroku pg:push` from local dev db to heroku remote db. Hell I have a headache now 🤕 but at least I have a production Rails JSON API in return - https://railsapi-booklist.herokuapp.com/books
Learned to deploy my Rails API on Heroku but the json data is not showing up in production...why??? - https://railsapi-booklist.herokuapp.com/books
Implemented Netlify Build Plugins for one of my sites - love it. Hope the ecosystem grows!
Researched and played around with DataTables.net, trying to figure out how to default sort in descending order for datetimes... How difficult can this be for how simple a thing!
Read Ruby On Rails For Dummies
Created basic new Rails app for - crud posts, user sign_up
Seeking Rails mentors and support
Sketch-storming of new product idea - Lifelog (name tbc)
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Completed "Intro To Rails" youtube course by Mackenzie Child
Posted customary "Hello World" on
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Plan for learning my way towards my first web app (via Ruby on Rails)
Brainstorming product ideas for making
research on micro-SaaS for inspiration
find out if selected gov job sites allow scraper bots
research on difficulty and effort for making Rails web scraper
borrowed reference book “Rails Crash Course: A No-Nonsense Guide to Rails Development” because old school 😆
research+brainstorm products to make
Practice project for mySQL - Made a web app “Secret Diary” in the process, with signup/login for people to post secrets.
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