A Look Back: Week Ending October 11th

Posted on Oct 12, 2020

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week.

Guildflow

Launched the big marketing landing page update with lots of new screenshots to tempt people to join the beta and upgrade their own meetups.
Worked on a fork of swoosh (an Elixir email library). Specifically my fork updates the Postmark adaptor so I can batch and send broadcast email with a custom message stream. Hope to post an official pull request and demo video soon™. Eventually Guildflow will use this adaptor to help group admins send broadcast messages (with email notifications) to the memberships at large.
Started some experiments with EthicalAds, which is a privacy-focused advertising network for developers from the folks at Read the Docs. The admin team there is very helpful and I hope this works out.

For the Android Book Club I read and coded chapters: 21 (Styles and Theme), 22 (XML Drawables), 23 (More About Intents and Tasks).
Met with Kotaro to review progress on his iPad drawing app and share my own progress with Guildflow.
Cleaned up a lot of loose end todos and digital trash.
Started work on some Elixir tutorials. Will share more when they are ready.
Took delivery of a new Intel NUC which for now is running Pop_os!.

Continued my play through of Final Fantasy 4j (rom hack version). Deep into the final dungeon. Probably only one more gaming session left.
Played a mix of Mario 64 Switch, Hades and Red Dead 2.
Hit a wall trying to get my AirPods fixed.