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Positive signup results; funnel simplification needed.
Quick session today. Took a look at the stats, looks like ads and the new demo button are yielding ...
Container issues, Reddit ads fail, content stalled.
Starting the day with a heart attack: nothing seems to be working. Containers are not starting. Te...
Fixed auth, added login, focused on content.
Continuing where I left off yesterday. I need to fix the frontend auth issues and set it up so loggi...
Worked on demo, tired, progress incomplete.
I was really tired yesterday so I just rested, but today I hope to put in at least an hour. Let's ...
Project continuation affirmed; boot.dev inspiration; action plan.
Did some thinking yesterday, pondering about whether to continue with this project. I tried solving ...
AI agent progress; refining, coding, training.
Spent a lot of time yesterday feeling pretty defeated and thinking about what to do next. Thought ab...
Project slowdown, discouraged, course adjustments.
Maybe I could speed up the content generation by not writing the checks? That seems to be the most t...
Agentic workflow attempt failed; focusing on Cursor.
I'm gonna start figuring out the agentic workflow today. Started proompting and using the OpenAI A...
Brainstorming workflow automation; focused on manual steps first.
Very little time today, I'm just gonna brainstorm a little. I need to figure out how to chunk out ...
Researching content generation flow; no coding today.
Not much time today. I'm researching how to set up an agentic flow for content generation, probably ...
Finished EF Core chapter 1, seeking automation.
Today I'll wrap up the chapter 1 of EF Core basics. If there's some time left I would love to start ...
Automated course progress; manual input needed.
Made a lot of progress today, both on finishing the course and making it more automated. It still ...
Content work tonight, short session, tired.
Today I'll continue working on the content. Probably a bare minimum session as I'm exhausted.
Side project focus shift, roadmap needed, prioritize tutorial completion.
I've realized I accomplished the most important things regarding observability and I don't really ne...
Docker issues solved, Prometheus/Grafana setup, happy.
Yesterday I managed to make the selector work, but today it's not working. It appears I didn't save ...
Docker log display issue; config update needed.
Still trying to display logs properly. The driver is working fine, but I don't have a label for th...
Untitled Entry
Today I'll contiue playing around with Grafana. Okay, I managed to parse a single container's outpu...
Grafana log monitoring setup failed.
Today I'll play around with Grafana to see how I can set up the dashboard so I can properly monitor ...
Fixed .NET 8, set up Loki, Grafana, Promtail.
Today I'll fix the dotnet 8 issue and hopefully set up loki. I added the dotnet 8 sdk to the image...
Loki setup attempted, structured logging complete.
Today I'll try to set up Loki. Before setting up Loki, I need to set up structured logging. I've ...
Project restart, new machine, AI, and observability.
Coming back to the project after a long break. I took two weeks of vacation to clear my mind a litt...
Reddit ads failing, project drop considered.
Reddit ads finished. The clicks they show seem to be bullshit, as I'm seeing 10x less on posthog sta...
Short, frustrating session; testing issues.
Short session today, no time or energy. One session recorded finished chapter 1. Looks like they tr...
Kanban for Code Interactive, email follow-up needed.
I've been rereading The Lean Startup and I've come across the kanban method that's suggested. I shou...
Reddit ads test; project marketing focus.
Short session today. I'll start Reddit ads again, i'll run them for 4 days, 5 euro per day and see w...
Todo app course launched; worried about timeline.
Took me a full day of refining the content, fixing checks and testing stuff, but it's finally done. ...
Worked on todo app tutorial; AI helped; regex issues persist.
Today I'll start with the todo app tutorial. Wrote the first version of the chapter 1, still need t...
Course finished, launch successful, break undecided.
Today I'll definitely finish the course. Spent more time than I wanted optimizing the checks, but n...
Course launch attempt; debugging, tired.
Today, I'll try to launch the new course. It's becoming more and more clear to me that I need some ...
Flu day, calculator progress, Discord outreach.
Down with the flu today so I probably won't be that productive, but I'll do some work on the calcula...
Fixed code push, planned calculator course, user testing needed.
Just now realized the weird bug from yesterday (content not updating) was caused by me not pushing c...
Infra finished; Course launched; automated deployment needed.
I'll start by finishing the content and making sure everything runs smoothly. Done. The chapter 1 i...
Content importer fixed, submission work next.
Today's TODO: - fix the importer ignoring gitignore - launch the new course After the code importe...
Chapter 1 done, code importer fix, actions next.
I managed to finish the content of the first chapter (only 4 steps). This should be good enough for ...
Certificate error, fixed config, course writing.
21:30 Looks like the certificate on my diary site expired and the auto renewal doesn't work. I'll h...
Took break, worked on C# tutorial, diary error.
Had to take a big break. I had a lot of stuff to take care of and wasn't really feeling like workin...
Passive traffic increase; taking a break.
Still taking a break from working. I did, however, take a quick look at the Posthog dashboard. I've...
Exhausted; taking time off.
No energy today either, I'll probably take a day or two off.
Relaxed, prettied diary, chapter 1 tomorrow.
Today I didn't feel like working so I spent some time making the diary prettier. Tomorrow, I wll tr...
Refactored tutorials, but missed chapter goal.
Today's TODO: - load tutorials from db - finish csharp basics chapter 1 - (optional) write a script...
Planning DevJourney.io; rewriting C# tutorials.
Last night I got a bit excited and started thinking more about the idea of building upon this diary ...
Abandoned Meta, Reddit ad data gathered, Beginner tutorial prioritized.
Gave up on Meta, no time for that this week. I'll try again next week. The Reddit ad is finished, 5...
Reddit ad approved, Meta ads issues persist.
Reddit approved my ad. Yay! 14k impresssions, 53 clicks, €3.54 spent for now. I'll check PostHog tom...
Busy day, Reddit fix, Meta issue tomorrow.
Extremely busy day today, only have time for a short session before bed. Reddit responded. Looks li...
Ad rejected, tech issues, no traffic, Instagram ad fails.
My ad was rejected by Reddit. > Why was this ad rejected? > > Reddit doesn’t allow ads that are dec...
Short session, ad campaign launched, hoping for traffic.
Short session today. I'll take a look at posthog to see if anyone clicked any of the tutorials. Not...
Course outline deployed, but tutorials unavailable.
Late start today, but I'm putting in a full day's work and hopefully I'll deploy the full course out...
Busy week, course layout almost done.
Yesterday I had literally no free time, and today I only have about 30 minutes before bed. Tomorrow ...
Planned beginner .NET tutorials; A/B testing course launch.
Today I'll start actually writing the new tutorials. I was thinking about what to build first and ca...
Unproductive; single-chapter tutorials; data-driven approach.
Today I've been very unproductive so I'll make this session the bare minimum 30 minutes and try to r...
Flutter course comparison, content focus, new tutorial plan.
Today I talked with the founder that's doing the Flutter courses. We have a similiar setup, but thei...
Enabled anonymous tutorials; UX improved
I ran across someone on LinkedIn doing the same thing I am, but for Flutter. Looks nice, but the VM ...
Busy weekend, fixed user identification issue.
Unfortunately, this weeked was extremely busy and yesterday I had no time to do any work. I'll do a ...
Bug fix, user stuck, PostHog issue, confused.
Starting off today by checking the dashboard to see what's new. Good news! The first user ever got ...
Project work prioritized over automation; tracked user funnel; marketing budget considered.
Thought about automating the posting today, but I think I should do some work on my actual project n...
Short session, format finalized, automated posts planned.
Very short session today. No time to check sessions, I'll focus on the posts. I've come up with the...
Code server failure, PostHog issues, fix needed, demo prep.
Very low on time, I'll make it short. Yesterday I reached out to the interested user to see if they...
Short PostHog session; fixed identification, started user tracking.
Starting late today, haven't had much time. It's going to be a short session. Most of the sessions t...
Diary posts on social media; PostHog issues; product potential.
Yesterday I posted the diary to LinkedIn and Reddit. I created an X account and posted on there with...
Mobile issues, diary progress, logging fix.
I woke up early, brain overclocked thinking about all the features I could add to the dev diary. I n...
AI course idea; low traffic; building public; automating diary.
I have an idea for generating courses from articles using ai, but none of this makes any sense until...
Brainstorming traffic; product diary & public build.
Yesterday I took a break and today I'll think about how to generate some traffic and collect feedbac...
Marketing focus; blog links added.
It's time to focus on marketing and getting this thing to people. I won't work too much, but I'll st...
Migrated, finished project, eager for feedback.
Very eager to finish today. Let's start with PostHog. I've set up the new account and updated the ...
Exhausted work marathon, landing page launch prep.
Woke up really tired, but I'll still try to finish the landing page today. Finally finished the lan...
Cursorful project: excited, progress, happy.
While laying in bed yesterday and looking around, I came across Cursorful. Looks amazing. I'll give ...
Regex error, recording stalled, exhausted.
Unfortunately, didn't have much time to work today. Just started at 20:30, thinking about some recor...
Code editor, landing page, and product research.
Yesterday I didn't do anything as promised, but today I hope to put in a full day's work. he Along w...
Coding overhaul, failed, frustrated, Christmas break.
Not sure how much time I'll have today, but I hope I can finish the ui improvements I decided to do ...
Mobile site fix, infra improvements needed, bug fixes.
I have little time todays so I'll use it to do some light work. Just ran across this post on Linked...
Improved course, added step completion, and UI tweaks.
Today, I'll start on making the course more satisfying. I have some ideas from looking at how boot.d...
Course ideas, C# extension woes, site prep.
I'm writing this at 02:30, I suddenly got some ideas for courses. - tutorials - integration testi...
Finished logins, improved auth, re-evaluating tutorial.
I'm gonna try to finish the GitHub and Google logins today. I finished setting up the logins and im...
Found cheaper hosting, upgraded machine, excited about new projects.
Had a chat with some of my buddies today about the machine I got, and they told me about a significa...
Busy day, VM RAM issue, bug fixed, improved feedback.
Yesterday, I had literally no free time, so I couldn't put in even the bare minimum. Today, I'll do ...
VM upgrade, 502 error persists, code mystery.
Tried again today, same problem with 502. Not sure what the hell is going on. I've decided to bite ...
Security concerns, progress on tutorial, platform usability issues.
Read about some scary hacking stories last night, which got me thinking about the security of what I...
No work yesterday, minimal today, chapter 4 done.
Unfortunately, yesterday I had no time so no work was done. Today, I will do a bare minimum session....
Finished more chapters, close to finish, excited.
Today I finished a couple more chapters. Right now I'm at 4.2, which is pretty close to finishing. I...
Step changing failed; logging improved, fix implemented.
Not much time today, so I'll do a short session. Looks like step changing doesn't work. I can see t...
Short, tired session; daydreaming, writing.
Short session today, I'm extremely exhausted. I was daydreaming today about launching this thing. I...
Burnout forced break, rebuilding, focusing on content.
Well, it was bound to happen. I overworked myself and burnt out completely, so I was forced to take ...
Fixed React/Next.js bugs; chapter/step display works.
I'm going to try and finish what I started yesterday. I'm stuck on some nextjs or react bullshit. T...
Burnt out, fixing broken chapters.
Still burnt out, don't feel like working at all. I started clicking through the created chapters to...
Minimal work, tired, finished chapter 5.
Another bare minimum session today. I feel better than yesterday, but still don't feel like working....
Procrastinated, wrote chapters, burnt out.
Really don't feel like working today, doing the bare minimum. I finished writing the chapter 3 and ...
Short, slow writing session; tired.
Short session today, I'll work on writing out the chapters. Finished a few parts of chapter 3. This...
Worked on tutorial, planned new course, slow progress.
Time to put some work into finishing the unit testing tutorial. While doing this, I thought of an i...
Project monetization, UX issues, and unfinished tutorials.
Today, I was thinking about how I'm going to monetize this project. It's going to be pretty hard to ...
Tired, minimal effort, writing chapters.
really tired today, doing the bare minimum. Going to continue writing the chapters. I did my best, ...
Redesigned website; happy with results.
Did some more work yesterday, couldn't resist, so I updated the notes. I'll be doing more design rel...
New logo, happy, testing night theme.
The logo is finished and I'm very excited to set it up. It's blue and I love the design, but I've as...
Website design focus; logo commission.
Short session today. I really shoulnd't be doing this now, but I'm looking at inspiration on how to ...
Minor fixes; Focusing on content; Manual work
I started the day by fixing some low hanging fruit bugs that I discovered when refreshing the page. ...
Converted, loaded, content focus, ready for Saturday.
Started much earlier today and have some time to spare, so I hope to put in a few productive hours. ...
Exhausted, quick work, markdown parsing.
No time today and I'm absolutely exhausted, so I'll do a quick session before bed. Let's try and pa...
File loaded, markdown parsing tomorrow.
Let's try and get this file to load. Figured it out after trying multiple solutions to a problem I ...
Parser progress stalled; file load error.
I'll try to finish the markdown parser today. In the middle of refactoring to make the parser work,...
Unproductive day, WebStorm woes, no parser.
Not feeling like working, another bare minimum session today. I lost most of my time dealing with a...
Procrastinated, markdown-to-React parser needed.
Don't feel like working today either so I'm gonna do the bare minimum. Before I continue writing mo...
Reverted client init, focused on content, MVP planning.
Not sure how much time I'll have today. Hopefully plenty. Looking at what I did yesterday, I think ...
Debugging, UX improvements, and performance fixes.
Last night I was thinking about how poor the performance of this setup is and how the UX is terrible...
Tired, test display done, container reset issue.
Extremely tired today, so I'll do the bare minimum. I've finished the test display. Looks good enou...
Regex struggles, tests pass, display next.
Short session today, I'll try to finish the output display. I'm having trouble parsing the output u...
Frontend directory error; test runner UX improvements needed.
I'm exhausted today so it will probably be a short session. It seems like I'm still hardcoding the ...
Regex issue fixed; container resilience added; loading screen implemented.
The issue is that the requests are being caught in the regex location and routed to :8080, as there ...
Website development progress, deployment errors, proxy issues.
Today, I will try to put in more hours, but I'm not sure if chores will allow it. I added the tutor...
Excited, but obligations win; minimal work.
As excited as I was to put in more hours today, life obligations prevailed and I'm once again puttin...
Supabase fixed, navbar/login/logout working.
I fixed the issue with the supabase component. All I had to do was read until the end of the issues ...
Navbar fix, Supabase issue, 30 min logged.
I'll start by making the navbar display on the tutorials page. There's an issue with the supabase c...
Short coding session; logout/login fixed, next courses page.
Another short session today. It's unlikely I'll have more time for the rest of this week. Hopefully ...
30 min coding session; user functionality works.
Short on time, another 30 min session today. I copied everything over and it seems to work! I can s...
Supabase struggles; minimal progress today.
No time or energy today either, so I'll do the bare minimum. I'm looking through the example github...
Sunday session, unwell, authorization unclear.
Another short session today as it's Sunday and I'm not feeling well. I'm continuing with the authori...
Short Supabase session; hoping to finish guide tomorrow.
Today will be an extremely short session (30 min). I'll try to do as much as I can, but probably won...
Docker project progressing, deploying, CORS, user accounts next.
Dreamt about the project last night, I was explaining to my coworker how I can run docker commands o...
Container endpoint progress; nginx proxying; websocket error.
Today, I'll further test the container endpoint and try and get it to work in production. I will be ...
Refactored code, set up containers, prepared routing.
Didn't feel much like working today, and i kind of lost control of the day, so this is going to be a...
SSL setup, orchestrator prep, happy progress.
I'm feeling well enough this evening, so I'll try and put a few hours in. Today, I will try and set ...
Docker VM chosen; Supabase auth; simple orchestration.
I've had a terrible Monday and I don't have much time, so today I'll do a quick research session to ...
Orchestration layer design; authentication, container management.
It's Sunday and I don't have much time, so today I would like to think about how I'm going to set up...
Docker app progress; UI, tests, deployment issues.
Today I will focus on getting the test to run consistently. The weird error was caused by there lit...
Code-server setup successful; migrating to single VM per user.
Now I'm wondering if this is even a good approach at all. Maybe I should try setting up code-server ...
UI test setup struggles; project recreated; encoding issues.
Today I will try to get the tests to run properly through the UI. I've struggled with various issue...
Dockerized project, solved dotnet issue, UI testing next.
The current state of the project is that I've given up on trying to set up Firecracker and moved to ...