Slowly backing into progress
I'm trying to cultivate a new habit: dedicating at least half an hour to an hour each day to development.
The Log
Origins
The early devlog, brought over from projectstrackt.dev. The month-by-month story of building strackt solo — from the first idea in 2021 to the first working pieces. Kept as written, for the full record.
Calming with strackt.io
Each day comes with its barrage of tasks and challenges, often leaving little room for respite.
Hard not to keep mulling in your head
Sometimes it's extra frustrating to keep things mulling in your head and not be able to act on it
Out of focus
When the focus is gone, progress is painfully slow
UUIDs everywhere
UUIDs are safer than using regular numeric IDs because they are not easy to spoof.
Data Transfer Objects
Since Strackt is a full SPA and API-driven application, passing data around needs to be extremely structured; enter the Data Transfer Object.
Into Containers
So starts the journey of containerizing Strackt. As always the basics are simple, but getting it to a production-grade level with enough rigor to not get in the way is where things get trickier.
Planning, testing and typing
Working quite a bit on the feedback loop. Events systems are working better and better and it shows in the implementation speed of new features, but also in the progression of the UI
Small steps lead the way
Small chunks of time also allow for small steps of progress
It's time to make time
It has been more than 9 months since my last update, it itches and I need to force my calendar to make more time for it.