BlogHide Resteemsduckeh (31)in blog • 6 years agoGitDash - CanceledThoughts on abandoning my side project In 2017, I started gitDash, an application for tracking git branches, their commits, and where they were in your build pipeline. We use a development flow…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 24Day 24 The snackbar toast messages didn't go so well. I originally attempted to use the getmdl component for my toast messages, but they didnt want to work with angular. I then tried to use…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 23Day 23 Day 23! We're almost done. Just 6 tasks remaining. If your interested in the project, go sign up for a beta invite at as we approach completion! Today I finished up the rate limiting…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 22Day 22 If your interested in the project, go sign up for a beta invite at as we approach completion! Today I finished the access middleware. That basically just makes sure that you are…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 21Day 21 If your interested in the project, go sign up for a beta invite at as we approach completion! Today I tackled the front end for recovering your account if you forgot your password.…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 20Day 20 Twenty days in! Ten days remaining. Go sign up for a beta invite at as we approach completion! Today I've been working on the back end of the recover account. There's nothing exciting to…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 19Day 19 Go sign up for a beta invite at I'll be sending them out as soon we're ready to go. Today I've been working on a bug that has been popping up. It's the bug where if you log out and log…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 18Day 18 The temporary landing page is done. I've put up a simple contact us page and generated a privacy policy. The privacy policy css is very off, but I'm not too worried about it. Now that…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 17Day 17 We're officially collecting emails for beta! Go to gitdash.io to sign up for a beta invite for gitdash! I fixed the github issue was just an issue on their end. Once the new landing page…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 16Day 16 Day 16! Over the hill! Today I finished up the landing page, but ran into some issues with github so it's not up yet. I added the back end and the infrastructure to AWS, hopefully on the…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 15Day 15 Today is an excuse day. I didn't get the chance to do much today with the world series and my friend moving to the city. I found the images for the features and split it up so the…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 14Day 14 Halloween! I didn't get too much done today cuz of Halloween, but y oucan see some of the visual differences with the page below. The plan for the next couple days is the same, we just need…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 13Day 13 Today I've been working on the new landing page. The basic css and html is set up. I need to add a list of features, the actual back end to submit your email, and add some more styling and…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 12Day 12 The overlap issue has been fixed and all the buttons have been hooked up. There is one issue where the placeholder for edit team name doesnt go away on team load. Moving on from this page…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 11Day 11 I've been working on the edit team page still, adding in the team members table and the ability to add and remove users. There's an issue with the dropdown and the overflow settings that…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 10Day 10 Double digits! Today we added the ability to edit a team name and the team color. It's a simple page that uses the html color picker, which hopefully we can make a little more user friendly…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 9Day 9 With the ngrx/store issue solved, it was easy to continue with dev and make some progress. Switching the team is now saved to the server, so if you come back to the site you end up in the…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 8Day 8 Problem solved! This should be the last huge hurdle as it was a problem with my understanding of how the library works. I'm sure there will be other issues, but they wont be so fundamental.…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 7Day 7 The past day has been super frustrating. I can't get the state of my app to update correctly, so the selected team isn't properly being displayed everywhere. Once this is done and better…duckeh (31)in blog • 7 years agogitDash 30 Days of Dev - Day 6Day 6 A few days off, and we're at day 6! I was hoping to get a lot done over my trip, but I didn't get the chance to. Travel ended up being crazy with delays and drama. What we have now is the…