A Look Back: Week Ending September 27th

Posted on Sep 27, 2020

Part of the series: Journals

The feature I’d been chasing for two weeks finally landed and shipped. Here’s that week, plus everything that happened around it.

Guildflow

Finally finished the new page and editable navigation feature.
Deployed version 0.11, which includes the above features and some minor fixes.
Updated the Changelog on the marketing site.
Posted a pair of short feature demos. One on How to Create a New Group and the other How to Add Members via Membership Applications.
Posted a new blog post: Goal-oriented Side Event Ideas for Technical Meetups.
Started work on a bigger marketing site update. Not sure when it will launch, but I want to feature those feature demos above.

Work

For the Android Book Club I read chapter 18 (Accessibility). I have not yet coded this weeks chapters (16, 17 and 18) but hope to do so on Monday before the meeting.
I did however get deep into some Jetpack Compose tutorials and experiments.
Attended the Philly CocoaHeads Side Project Saturday event.
Did a two hour pairing session using Elixir for a prospective subcontractor role.
Did a pair of mastermind related meetings.
Met with Kotaro to review progress on his iPad drawing app and share my own progress with Guildflow.
Attended an IndyHall show and tell which included member onboarding improvements and voting info.
Hosted the rescheduled September meeting of Philly Elixir and talked a lot about LiveView use in Guildflow.

Personal

Continued my play through of Final Fantasy 4j (rom hack version). About to go to the moon for those who know that game.
Had to request a return of Mario 3D All Stars from Amazon (it never showed) and instead ordered a copy from Target.
Had a social coffee with a friend. Trying to set these up with people I’d normally run into downtown but have not seen in months due to lock down.

About the Author. Mike Zornek is a developer and teacher focusing on product design and development with a heavy focus on Elixir and LiveView. In between his projects, Mike helps other teams through consulting. During off hours, he enjoyed watching Phillies baseball and playing relaxing video games.

Hopefully, you found interest in my scribbles. If you have commentary or a response, I'd love to hear it.