June 2021

[r002]

Summary - June 2021

• Setup different PROD and QA environments for Go server
  • PROD
    • studydash/cards
    • https://studydash.appspot.com/info
  • QA
    • studydash/cards-qa
    • https://studydash-qa.appspot.com/info
• Migrate to new dedicated studydash organization
  • r002/codenewbie ➡ studydash/cards
• Implement snippets that cut across cards (similar to MS Office's Fluid Framework)

[r002]

Wk 23: Jun 6-12

Saturday - 6/12

• Light Reading:
  • https://evrone.com/rob-pike-interview
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23031778
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_polymorphism ("Generics")
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11494448
  • https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/printing-struct-variables-in-golang/

Friday - 6/11

• Post thoughts on Microservice Musings
• Go services : Refactor all config into its own package - source all config from env_variables

Thursday - 6/10

• Release first version of Dashboard GUI - time to make things legit! 😀
  • https://github.com/r002/captains-log
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33551505/what-exactly-is-a-release-in-github

Wednesday - 6/9

• Create a GH QA webhooks endpoint in the studydash/cards-qa repo in order to test Go server locally. Endpoints:
  • QA: studydash/cards-qa
  • PROD: r002/codenewbie
• Every time a new card is created, studygroup-bot should auto-tag that card with the name of the day (eg. Monday, Tuesday, etc)

Tuesday - 6/8

• Go server - Update integration tests to use tables
  • https://courses.calhoun.io/lessons/les_twg_les_18
• Explore how to connect GCP (gcloud app deploy) to GitHub actions. Set up CI/CD for Go server
  • https://github.com/google-github-actions/deploy-appengine
  • https://medium.com/swlh/deploying-github-repository-to-google-cloud-platform-997d296547e6

Monday - 6/7

• Create new studydash organization, studydash/cards-qa repo
  • Create studydash/cards repo once we're ready to switch over

[r002]

Wk 24: Jun 13-19

Saturday - 6/19

• Remove Matt from dashboard; add Shaza to dashboard
• Source studydash members from Firestore members collection
  • Add a active: true | false property to member model
• Begin working on The Feed sidebar on dashboard GUI
  • First feature: When people give reactions to comments, The Feed should immediately show them

Tuesday - 6/15

• Copy Go precommit script over from clog for npm run pushall (but write a Go main for it)
• Misc
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/admit-it-you-miss-your-commute/619007/
  • https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/15/podcast-347-information-foraging-the-tactics-great-developers-use-to-find-solutions/

Monday - 6/14

• Build /info endpoint for Go server to display server version, changelog, and config settings
  • Go strings.Builder: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47798475/6713828
• Misc
  • https://whatweekisit.com/

Sunday - 6/13

• Create https://studydash.github.io ⬅ points to latest QA build

[r002]

Wk 25: Jun 20-26

Friday - 6/25

• Submit suggestion to GitHub-- offer the ability to create tasks as issues in a different repo
  • A common pattern is to create specific repos to only hold user-submitted issues/feedback/ideas/etc. All actual dev work in the codebase is in another repo.
• Create \cmd\adminscripts\main.go
• Create a members collection in Firestore. Source all study members from here.
  • Implement StreakCurrent
  • Implement StreakMax
  • Implement MissedDays
• Fields in the members collection
  • User full name (string)
  • User handle (string)
  • start date (string? Date?) Eg. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z
  • uid (string)
  • repo - repo location of user's cards (string)
  • active (boolean)
  • max streak count [streakStartDate: string, streak: number]
  • current streak count [streakStartDate: string, streak: number]
  • missed days string[] Eg. [2021-05-01, 2021-05-02]
• https://flaviocopes.com/go-date-time-format/
• https://yourbasic.org/golang/format-parse-string-time-date-example/
• https://golang.org/pkg/time/#pkg-constants

Thursday - 6/24

• Implement pagination on the dashboard GUI. In the next GUI build, the default view will show one month's worth of cards. People can then use ◀ ▶ buttons to navigate backwards and forwards in time.
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/Date
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/222309/calculate-last-day-of-month
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2013255/how-to-get-year-month-day-from-a-date-object/66234640#66234640
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/DateTimeFormat#using_options
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60847773/how-to-convert-firestore-time-stamp-to-human-readable-date-format

Wednesday - 6/23

• Fix the streak counter
• Begin implementing private cards
• https://www.wsoaonline.com/underscores-or-dashes-for-urls/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3605214/javascript-add-leading-zeroes-to-date/47774150#47774150
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toISOString
• https://api.github.com/repos/studydash/cards/issues?milestone=1&sort=created&direction=desc&per_page=100&labels=2021-06

Tuesday - 6/22

• Build abstraction function to get issues from GitHub REST API
  • Accepts end date and will always get the past 30 days of cards

Monday - 6/21

• Build Mask Frame for QA builds

Sunday - 6/20

• Transfer/rename r002/codenewbie repo ➡ studydash/cards
  • First, back up all cards in r002/codenewbie repo ➡ .json files
  • https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/managing-repository-settings/transferring-a-repository
  • https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/managing-issues/transferring-an-issue-to-another-repository
• Explore if you can use GitHub REST API to create issues with an arbitrary issue number. Or must issue numbers increment sequentially?
  • Finding: Issue numbers must be sequential and are autoincremented by the server. They cannot be passed in as a parameter.
    https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/issues#create-an-issue

[r002]

Wk 26: June 27 - July 3

Saturday - 7/3

• Show Latest Card # on Member Stats Pane
  • Show Latest Day Submitted for CurrentStreak
• Deploy Go server to PROD (studydash)
• Set up Cloud Scheduler to run the job daily at 12:01a ET

Friday - 7/2

• Submit feedback to GitHub Issues Discussions

Thursday - 7/1

• Create Study Members Stats widget
• Pagination - Get page param in url
• Modify default view to display two months at a time
• In member model: Add the streak model:
  • length (number of days)
  • startDate (date)
  • endDate (date)

Wednesday - 6/30

• Modify Go server to also label all newly created cards with YYYY-MM. Eg. 2021-06, 2021-07
• Every time card is submitted, update the study member submitter's stats
• At 12:01a ET every day, run the Study Member Stats Updater job. This way if any member missed the day, that will be recorded in the stats