The Chart Lab

I’m in the middle of developing something awesome for weminder2. It’s a feature called the Chart Lab. The Chart Lab feature is a fake behavior chart, between Terry the Top, and Bailey the Bottom.

You’ll be able to pretend to be either of them, and drive around their chart, putting in good behaviors and misbehaviors, rewarding and punishing Bailey for their conduct. It’s going to be available to all users, so you can get a sense for how weminder2 works, try out ideas, kick the tires, whether you’ve got someone to use the app with or not.

Invites and Action Dots

Got another weminder2 development demo video to show you.

In this one, I show what inviting another user looks like, and how you know when you’ve got an invite waiting for you.

Saying No is Important!

So I’ve been hard at work on weminder2, the better, bigger, faster, stronger update to my behavior chart app. And today, I got something big working.

This is the process by which you invite someone to a chart, and they, without having to have an account, can securely say, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

I’m really proud of it.

Bad Doms Are A Pain In The Ass

some code!

Not the kind you’re thinking of.
I’m talking about the Document Object Model, or DOM.

I’m in the process of rewriting and vastly improving my behavior chart app, weminder. And one of the technologies in my stack is React, and its accompanying support library, react-router-dom. Because of other technologies in my stack, I’m currently using version 5 of r-r-d.

So a day or so ago, I was working on the part of the code where one user invites another to participate in a chart, and my helpful AI assistant, who I call Riley, suggested I do a particular technical something, using a particular feature of r-r-d that comes in version 6.

But I don’t use version 6.

So it suggested I upgrade. Which after some wrestling with indecision I decided to do.

This, as it turns out, was a Very Bad Choice™. Why? Because of that OTHER part of my stack, the Ionic Framework. I got halfway through the upgrade, and things were just not going well. So I consulted ANOTHER AI, the support bot over at the Ionic discord, which told me that they explicitly use react-router-dom version 5 and have no plans to upgrade at this time.

Oy.

So now I’m walking it back.

These are the kinds of hoops you jump through when you’re developing an app, and you’re an entrepreneur, and you’re responsible for the whole thing, soup-to-nuts.

But at least I get to vent about it here.

audio post: what I'm up to these days

So it’s not podcasting, but I do like sharing audio.
Here’s what I’m up to these days.