Akash Manohar

The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just that little "extra".

More progress on

* Finished up RSS template, pagination, styling fixes and imported older blog posts.
* Added localStorage support for persisting darkMode choice.

Tried creating Pods and RepicaSets in minikube to understand learnings so far

Next:
* Understand namespaces
* Learn to export a port on the nginx pod
* Create an nginx pod in one namespace
* Start a console/pod in same namespace and try to access the nginx server
* Start a console/pod in another namespace and try to access the nginx server

Learnt about ReplicationController and ReplicaSets today

Will try out both tomorrow in minikube and checkout Deployments

⚡️ Achievement unlocked: Rejected meeting invite from boss when my calendar was already blocked for lunch 🤷‍♂️

Some more progress on course

Switched courses and started mixing it up with reading materials from the Kubernetes site to understand some topics indepth.

Drafted my learning path for the next 30 days

And it involves learning Kubernetes. I'll be glad if I can make it through to the other end without info overload.

Some more progress on onboarding step-2

With most of the ground work complete, UI for onboarding step-2 should be complete by tomorrow

Got a script working to schedule/create bull.js jobs from Ruby

Scheduling jobs in Bull.js via other languages is not documented. Had to dig through someone's PHP code to get my Ruby script working. There are multiple GitHub issues on the Bull.js repo asking for this feature. Perhaps a blog post should help them out. Will blog about this.

Onboarding page-1 complete for

This page uses my first (albeit simple) illustration - created by accident in Figma when creating the app prototype.

Additionally,
* Moved some of the service classes into app/services
* Since I've handled file uploads now - this should make further form building easier for step-2 and step-3 of onboarding

Tiny list of achievements for today:
* For the first time, I wrote frontend javascript code to upload a file via API (using fetch function). I don't even remember doing this (or atleast understanding what I did) in the last 14yrs of writing code.
* Handled the uploaded file via a Rails controller. Again - don't remember doing this without the help of a library before.

Cleaned up some javascript to be able to understand it + make further updates

First time in years I've felt confident about organizing javascript code.

Babel, Webpack, all of it still feels like magic to me - especially the amount of tiny tiny packages with tiny tiny configs that generate a tonne of warnings on package updates.