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rssWherein I write down some of my experiences thus far in attempting to acquire solar panels and batteries. It's been rough!
more inside...A week’s vacation and feeling quite renewed!
California reaches 100% renewable energy for 25 out of the last 32 days! A new record!! https://apple.news/Axn9hzc7XQ76nVs4QBBi3XA
I’ve been thinking a lot about authentication in My Cafe. It’s starting to look like you will register/logon using your email address, and then afterwards you can add a passkey so you can login that way if you want to.
Almost done implementing email based authn!
Today's Lean Coffee chat to talk about whether we want to rebuild Coffee Time or reuse the existing codebase was quite good! We landed on starting a new codebase. The source code is hosted at https://fossil.calmabiding.me/mycafe.
Next up: user authentication!
Feeling a bit down lately. But maybe that's just sleep deprivation? Have made some small edits to my legacy lean coffee app in preparation for bringing a few friends down memory lane as we consider rebuilding it! Or maybe I'll find a way to hack up the old one to make it easier to self service? Not sure what I want to do really. But, I'm certain I don't like compiling JavaScript. Ha!
Visit the old app if you want!
Curious.. how many people skip because they want to instead of because they want attention?
Seems like all this investment in AI is going to do much more harm than good. Hope I’m wrong. Hope we don’t kick off an extinction level event. Tho maybe it’s for the best. Our species seems to be a threat to the rest of the planet.
Would love to be proved wrong!
My thoughts so far. Third party auth or local? Simplicity or complexity? Or eventually both?
more inside...The new cafe app is coming along nicely. Just copied over the site config code from My Life and tweaked it a bit to correct some sins I've discovered. Next up: authentication!
Earlier I wrote that I would try out SuperTokens. Sadly, I don't think I want people to have to manage multiple server processes, and they require a backend written in either golang, nodejs, or python. Our backend is Java-based. Guess we'll have to try something else!
Today has been very nice and relaxing. Nice to take a rest from doing all the things.
Small update to the blog -- I no longer show my daily activities on the front page. You'll need to click through to one of the categories to see all that stuff.
I was kind of proud of how easy it was to add this feature -- it's a mix of code and template magic, so I was able to deploy the code without any behavior. Then I updated the home page template and it showed up!
I seem to have reached the limit of my energy to improve my blog. Perhaps that's for the best! Now I'm gonna focus a bit on implementing a small Lean Coffee web app. Or mobile app. Not sure exactly. But it will be entirely self hosted and open source and free!
more inside...I just moved this blog from my local PC hidden behind nginx to its own thing out in the cloud! It doesn't run behind a load balancer or anything. And in fact, I was able to run just a single script to get everything up and running. Pretty cool. One step closer to making it so anybody can run this thing really simply. Should anybody want to. Ha!
Work in progress
This site is part of a larger effort to bring more of my digital life "in-house" so to speak. So when something goes wrong I have only myself to blame. Ha!