Eager

Took 4 days to build! Thought it would be a quick afternoon project. 🤦‍♂️ Happy with the results though... 😊

Finally got it figured out (again), but a few things still need to be updated in code. Long version: Many, many months ago, I figured out how to get mail to the Inbox in Outlook.com. If you search Google, you'll see it's notoriously difficult as Outlook.com randomly bans IP addresses, and doesn't de-list IPs even with reasonable requests. Figured out a long term solution to this today.

Short version: Do not recommend Outlook.com's email service. They will randomly drop legitimate emails, and most end up in spam when it shouldn't.

It took a few weeks to get everything right. I'm sure there are typos and things I'll need to correct. But you know what they say... "Better finished than perfect."

The widget itself involves a lot of JavaScript. All in plain vanilla JS in order to optimize for loading times and speed.

Over the past few days, I found a few cross browser bugs and rendering issues.

One by one, I fixed each bug, but it left the code base quite messy.

So I decided to refactor and clean things up. Took a few hours, but I'm happier with it.

Still not quite where I want it to be, but I've been working on this for close to 3-4 hours. Will take a break and try again in a few weeks.

Up next, back to mobile app development.

What I have so far...