{"id":2490,"date":"2020-02-15T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T06:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2020-02-15T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T06:54:10","slug":"startup-programming-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"Startup programming update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick update of what I&#8217;m working on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;m in a bit of a mess sleep-schedule wise; I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on with my brain. I&#8217;ll sleep for 10 hours then stay awake for 10 hours or less, getting suddenly really tired at seemingly random times, constantly out-of-whack with a 24-hour schedule. And I keep having weird nightmares so my subconscious must be a bit anxious about something. (Part of what makes them weird is that they&#8217;re often <em>emotional<\/em> nightmares; I&#8217;ll be really angry or sad or depressed <em>in<\/em> the dream, rather than just having bad stuff happen to me in the dream. But I can&#8217;t find much information about emotional distress <em>within<\/em> dreams; most articles talk about emotional distress in life causing nightmares, but I&#8217;ve got the opposite problem. It&#8217;s bizarre.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m taking a short break from working on TuneSage to work on a quick related project. I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll call it yet, but it&#8217;s a note-taking \/ note-organizing web app. I mostly just want it for myself. I know there are already dozens out there (like <a href=\"https:\/\/evernote.com\/\">Evernote<\/a>), but none of them work quite the way I want them to. Specifically I want an app in which I can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep and organize random notes \/ ideas<\/li>\n<li>Keep todo lists and reminders<\/li>\n<li>Keep and organize bookmarks (similar to what I use Pinterest for)<\/li>\n<li>Keep and organize timed sessions (such as for freelancing)<\/li>\n<li>Keep logs of stuff (such as books owned &amp; read, movies owned &amp; watched, TV shows watched, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these things can already be done with existing tools, but again, not in quite the way I want.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the tools I&#8217;m using to create this app are tools I want to learn for use with TuneSage, so it will ultimately help with TuneSage&#8217;s development too. Plus the app itself will help me organize my notes regarding TuneSage. So I&#8217;m trying to kill a bunch of birds with one stone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll of course release it and if it gains any traction, so much the better. If no traction, it&#8217;s still something I want for myself.<\/p>\n<p>As far as TuneSage goes, I&#8217;ve stopped using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rust-lang.org\/\">Rust<\/a> for now, and instead switched to the older but more popular <a href=\"https:\/\/nodejs.org\/en\/\">Node.js<\/a>. Node.js is mainly Javascript for back-end, and it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>much<\/em> easier for me to program in an easy language I already have experience with than learn a new more complicated language like Rust. (For instance, I\u00a0<em>love<\/em> not having to worry about variable types&#8230; most of the time.) And since Node.js has been around for a lot longer, there are a ton of resources out there for it, which is also a huge plus.<\/p>\n<p>For this new mini-sidequest of a note-keeping app, I&#8217;m learning some other tools that I think I&#8217;ll need for TuneSage anyway, so the note-keeping app will be a good learning experience. I&#8217;m currently learning <a href=\"https:\/\/reactjs.org\/\">React<\/a> for the front-end, which helps with creating user interfaces, and <a href=\"https:\/\/feathersjs.com\/\">Feathers<\/a> for front-end to back-end communication, which is what I&#8217;m finding more confusing at the moment, mostly because it seems to have a lot of &#8220;parts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m up to at the moment! Stay tuned for the release of the first version of the note-keeping app!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick update of what I&#8217;m working on&#8230; First I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;m in a bit of a mess sleep-schedule wise; I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on with my brain. 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