6 weeks of summer vacation where 2 of those weeks were spent away from the computer. It’s definitely the longest break I have had for a while. I wanted to spend some of the break time learning a few new things and I decided to work on a small wishlist app. While I had planned — read more

Now that I have some basic persistence going, I can spend some time improving things that are not so ideal. One thing I wanted to change was the URL for the public wishlist. When a wishlist is shared, the URL was only slightly different in that it had public between wishlist and ID. So, someone — read more

So far we’ve just been using an in memory temporary repository for persisting the wishlist, which means every time I make a new deployment, the repository resets. I wanted to have some form of persistence now that the basic functionality is in place. I don’t want to be paying for SQL just yet so I’m — read more

Ok, I actually think testing is a very important part of development. I still haven’t come back from vacation feelings (and wake up times), so I thought I would learn about setting up automated testing for my API. I have been putting off proper persistence implementation because I don’t want to start paying for SQL — read more

We’ve just come back from vacation and it’s a bit difficult to get started back up so I thought I would try to start with creatives. With edge, you get access to bing chat that has a creative mode and I thought I would try it. Here was my prompt, complete with typos: I wanted — read more

If there is one thing that I hate like less, it is frontend development. Maybe not as much as I hate dislike databases though. So I thought this was the best first thing to outsource to copilot. Whether or not one can use chatgpt or copilot (from here on shall just be named AI for — read more

I watched a couple of build sessions and the one where Scott and Mark Learn to Code in particular was what prompted (🥁) me to check out Github co-pilot. It’s been a while since I worked on a side project for learning. Now that summer is coming up, it’s a little bit easier to find — read more