Week
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Updates.fm
Dec 16

Idea:

  • Integration between Roam & Tonic

  • Create stream/streams. Can auto subscribe people to them

  • Posting to a stream does 2 things

    • Creates a post on that stream in the UI - so you can look back at it over time

    • Sends an email to everyone subscribed to the stream.

  • Additional Features

    • Comments on posts

Updates.fm
Dec 15
  • Thinking: I want to be able to get a sense for the extent to which time passes between updates, and the frequency of the updates. This will incentivize me/us to keep regular updates coming in to projects and thus to keep projects moving. The first attempt at this is a horizontal scrolling style UI for reading streams, where you can scroll backwards to the left to see the historical posts.

  • Add horizontal day scroller to streams index

Updates.fm
Dec 14
  • Improve display for stream show page

  • Add links (to post and to stream) to the stream post email

  • Bug: Mails not sending because recipient emails function needs to be updated

Updates.fm
Dec 13
  • Build v1 of streams index frontend

Updates.fm
Dec 13
  • Tasks Dec 13th

  • Styling - remove disc list style if li contains: bold, pre, code, img

  • Styling - fix display of pre on website - overflow scroll

  • Improve db model for users & stream subscriptions

    • Build new subscriber model

    • Transfer over previous relationships

  • Allow sub-streams

    • For example: Tonic - Tonic customer acquisition, Atlas, Greenore, Housebuild

    • Add database and backend structure

  • Come up with way to prevent email from sending in certain scenarios

    • Scenarios

      • Small update

      • Send to self to test

      • Don't feel this warrants an email of its own

    • Thinking

      • Have an attribute called Email, which can be set to Self, All, or Digest

      • Self will immediately send to the user who owns the stream.

      • All will immediately send to anyone subscribed to the stream.

      • Digest will send to anyone subscribed to the stream, at the end of the day along with any other streams they're subscribed to.

    • Tasks

      • Add method to infer recipient list based on Email attribute

      • Send to ennis.tony@gmail.com if set to Self

      • Send to subscribers if set to all

      • Hide the email attribute in the output

        • This was the trickiest task today. Involved fun with Nokogiri

        • def cleaned_raw_roam_content 
            begin
              doc = Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment.parse(self.raw_roam_content)
              doc.at('a:contains("Email:")').parent.parent.remove 
              return doc.inner_html
            rescue => exception
              self.raw_roam_content
            end
          end
  • Come up with structure for assigning a title

    • What about - if the first node is an h3 - get the content and set that as the title.

    • Set title based on first h3

  • Think about/mock up layout for "All Streams" frontend

    • How can we have a Github green grid style panel to incentivise regular posting?

  • Add published_at date to use instead of created_at and updated_at

  • For Next Time

    • Allow modifying dates for stream posts

    • Load in some old posts to the VanBuild stream and modify the dates