Month #2: Summary

It's January now, and Tokyo is sooooo cold this month (ok, maybe it's only soooo cold to me, I'm from a Tropical country =P).

Well, at least the cat thinks it's cold too...
(photo taken from a restaurant in the ski resort)

We've both went on our holiday at the year end, P went to visit Italy, and I went for a 5 days snowboarding trip in Nagano area (Japan). My body is aching a little after the trip but felt pretty awesome after a good break.

I miss the ski resort...

Anyhow we are both recharged! Construction on bloggie.io is being resumed!

One month has passed again since the last summary... It's time to do a summary of the progress of Bloggie. Oh ya, Bloggie sort of became the name we want to go with! We bought the domain. I wanted to get bloggie.com initially, but it was taken. oh well, bloggie.io looks kind of cool too. ^_^ In fact, I think it's cooler than .com now (totally not because I couldn't get it).

Here's a list of things that we've done this month.

user value

• styling improvement
• replying to comment
• inbox & notification is introduced (inbox is pretty big, this includes many smaller hooks: comment notifications, follow notification, etc)
• nav bar dropdown
• bought bloggie.io
• github registration
• front page (rough UI)
• other bug fixes (saving html into db)
• slug generation for content name
• very rough profile page

infrastructure

• test environment setup - (rpsec, factorybot, capybara)
• CI is introduced
• image uploading moved to S3
• markdown-it is introduced (better performance, more extension)

Using my amazing estimation skill as a software engineer ಠ_ಠ, I believe the site will be usable in another month!

Some interesting stuff in the pipeline:

• support tweets in post
• support emoji
• better home page
• better draft page
• better profile page
• able to comment in markdown
• better image uploading experience

some less interesting but still pretty good stuff:

• add terms
• support ssh so users feel safe
• feature explanation page
• bloggie's vision page

stay tune!