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Web Bullshit

by Cory on November 10, 2019

UGH. I'm getting super fed up with all this web bullshit. I spent this week reading through the slate js docs and source code and then I spend this weekend trying to integrate it into the forum.

It's an amazing piece of software and int...

Highlights from the web

BucketUp Handle: Get Rid of That Piece of **** Handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb9ebjftAB0

Uhh... what? This is a real actual youtube commercial I got the other day. (Read More)

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    Demotivated, Again...

    by Cory on November 3, 2019

    It's Sunday and I feel like shit. I'm just sitting by myself in my room and I don't think i've talked to another human being outside of transaction store interactions in like 3 days.

    I spent the last week trying to figure out how to get the forum...

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    The Old Man and the Package

    by Cory on October 26, 2019

    I took this Friday off to go run a bunch of errands and it ended up being one of the worst days in recent memory. I got a parking ticket when I parked in a university lot to go to the bathroom and I bought a package that came in and looked like so...

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    Schooled

    by Cory on October 24, 2019

    Behold this rare Omegle get, wherein Stranger 1 pretends to be a MAGA freak and streamrolls my brilliant conjecture and Stranger 2 is a novice high schooler who just can't seem to remember their history facts:

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    A Conversation I Had with Someone from Highschool

    by Cory on October 24, 2019

    I recently remembered a conversation I had with someone in highschool and only now did it occur to me how fucking weird it was.

    Other guy: "Dude my dad, like, makes me so angry."

    Me: "Oh, uh, that sucks. How come?"

    "He's just like... a bitch"

    ...

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    Regression Tests

    by Cory on October 19, 2019

    No tangible progress on the forum right now, but I spent this week adding regression tests to the repo. I began the week about to work on implementing a "Create New Thread" flow when I realized that I accidentally broke the REST api somehow. I spe...

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    Making it Pretty

    by Cory on October 5, 2019

    I got SASS setup and started plopping in css variables everywhere. I could get used to this. I read a little bit about semantic HTML5 tags and object-oriented CSS (OOCSS), block-element-modifier (BEM) methology, SMACSS, etc. Sounds cool. I'm tryin...

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    Breadcrumbs

    by Cory on October 3, 2019

    I put in breadcrumbs and styled them kind of pretty like:

    I need to make it look pretty now. I have an unofficial milestone which is to make a presentable demo by the end of this week.

    Also since the last post, I added SASS support to the webp...

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    Set up the Backend

    by Cory on September 7, 2019

    I refactored some of the react code and set up my django models so now I have forums and threads. I also made forum and thread list views.

    I changed the editor a little bit so that it appears in what would be the next post in a thread:

    It's cl...

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