Hovering on the piano keys lets you browse names. Clicking now chooses a name, pushes it up to the App via a callback function, after which it is inserted into the text below the piano. The front end is deployed and works in Chrome, although not in S...
I am cleaning up my Mystery Musical Bootcampers code as I whip the app into shape. I’m trying to get rid of all my linting errors and warnings, since I know from last week’s hackathon that even though the program will run with them (at least in dev m...
Yesterday we were introduced to V0, an AI from Vercel that can build and deploy apps from your prompts. Chris at School of Code has used it to make a simple flashcards game. Once I’d got over feeling downhearted about my job prospects in this strange...
I remember telling my mentor, Steve, in my first fortnight of School of Code, that I was pretty freaked out by the Wild West world of Javascript, where variables could transition from strings to booleans to objects and back again willy-nilly, where n...
Last night was Monday, which meant choir rehearsal, which meant a couple of hours of enforced absence from my laptop. But not from thinking about the problem! In fact, having to think with my brain and a pencil instead of the computer gave me some mu...
I’m getting more pleasure than I perhaps should be from reading about the various data types one can store in a postgres database. Our previous exercises had used VARCHAR(255) which seems unnecessarily long to me for storing a name, but appears to be...
I am one bug away from MVP1. I started googling this problem, which led me to try tabbing into the fields with the keyboard. This revealed the text is actually editable, and the problem is to do with gaining focus from the mouse. So I think it’s the...
I fell in love with a font today, and I had to buy it. Now my site looks like this. Still some styling work to do, but it’s looking a lot cuter than it was. The font in question is called Trilby, and it is generously made available to students for e...
I have a lot of things still to implement to get my project up and running (and these are just the ones that are obvious to me right now). #2 is probably rather a large task to set as a single ticket. This morning I have finally managed to finish wa...