Continue logging bugs in Jira. Add priorities and statuses.
Additional Todos
Write the personal About-Me page.
Professional profile
Project pages. Get all of that documented. Some are already up, but probably not
finished and definitely not incorporated into the site map.
Templates, eventually, so I don't have to copy and paste my header and footer every
time
and so I can handle the journal as daily files instead of a single massive html.
Development Log
Started uploading bugs to Jira
Jira is not amazing for test management.
It might be more doable if sub-tasks weren't the lowest level of work or if you
could have more than
three levels of work, but the Test Management → Test Suite → Test Case format I'm
used to doesn't
exist.
Also, the Title, Summary, Instructions, Data, Expected Result, Actual Result, Status
(Pass/Fail)
type of thing would be hard to set up, especially with a free version of Jira.
Tested site and discovered some navigation issues. Updated navigation.
Continue logging bugs in Jira. Add priorities and statuses.
Additional Todos
Write the personal About-Me page.
Refactor HTML and CSS for Credits page.
Professional profile
Project pages. Get all of that documented. Some are already up, but probably not
finished and definitely not incorporated into the site map.
Templates, eventually, so I don't have to copy and paste my header and footer every
time
and so I can handle the journal as daily files instead of a single massive html.
Additional Work
Continued collecting details about employers who attended the job fair on July 23rd.
Development Log
Anonymized resume
Replaced phone number, email, LinkedIn details
Added skills related to building this website.
Replaced company names.
Made CSS work again.
Added ALightIs.Online header and footer.
Didn't do much else other than replacing my name.
Resume is very much not mobile-accessible. I feel like I'd need to create new
CSS, at least a
media query.
I still want to do more of a "professional profile" type of thing where I maybe
go into more
detail.
Todo.
Moved About-Me into a folder that includes my resume. Updated and tested links using
local server.
Todo
Test post-commit site.
Additional Todos
Write the personal About-Me page.
Log bugs and releases in Jira. Add priorities and statuses.
Refactor HTML and CSS for Credits page.
Professional profile
Project pages. Get all of that documented. Some are already up, but probably not
finished and definitely not incorporated into the site map.
Templates, eventually, so I don't have to copy and paste my header and footer every
time
and so I can handle the journal as daily files instead of a single massive html.
Additional Work
Continued collecting details about employers who attended the job fair on July 23rd.
I tried some automation last time I worked on this.
Automating opening Google actually makes the task take longer because of
Google's anti-bot
verifications.
Just used Google Sheets and concatenate to generate search links for everything
instead of
trying to use Playwright.
Additional context: I don't actually know that much Python yet.
ChatGPT walked me through generating code, but again, just verifying
that I'm human took
so long, there really was no benefit.
As a note, much of this was done while or between watching YouTube.
Some of the earlier stuff is more supernatural-focused than the newer stuff
seems. That's
interesting.
I liked their Supernatural parody okay. I kind of wonder if they've revisited
that
investigation.
True crime and missing people. I enjoy listening to people talk and how they
tell stories and
convey information.
They're interesting enough to listen to for now.
Development Log
Tested site on desktop and mobile.
Verified that bookmarking my site on my iPhone resulted in displaying my favicon on
the
desktop!
Determined 404 page does not work correctly if it is routed to from within a
directory.
Issue: CSS does not load.
Issue: Links do not resolve to correct locations.
Root Cause: Page-relative linking. Need to include absolute links instead of
relative links, at least for 404 page.
Imported journal.
Began CSS for journal.
Added text shadow for current-page in main nav.
Todo
After commit, site map is missing journal link in header — Should be fixed by next
commit.
Ended up on credits.html. Need to determine which file is linking to
that
page.
Not able to reproduce.
Found a few cases of credits/.
Updated all of those to credits/index.html.
I don't think credits/ likely caused the issue, but I'm not
finding
credits.html in my code.
Will remove the page from my repository.
Test post-commit site.
Update Configuration Registry.
Additional Todos
Write the personal About-Me page.
Log bugs and releases in Jira. Add priorities and statuses.
Refactor HTML and CSS for Credits page.
Anonymize resume. Add and begin expanded details sections. Consider structuring by
companies instead of dates.
Project pages. Get all of that documented. Some are already up, but probably not
finished and definitely not incorporated into the site map.
Templates, eventually, so I don't have to copy and paste my header and footer every
time
and so I can handle the journal as daily files instead of a single massive html.
Development Log
Made adjustments to 404.svg.
Investigated why bookmarking my site on my iPhone did not result in saving my
favicon.
Investigated margins issue. It appears to be resolved. I was using "margin" in
places I
should
have been
using "padding".
Began reworking credits page and developing projects pages.
Todo
Write the personal About-Me page.
Additional Todos
Verify right margins for content cards and investigate why <p>
and
<a> elements are not properly contained in the display cards.
Log bugs and releases in Jira. Add priorities and statuses.
Integrate Change Log and/or Journal into published website.
Refactor HTML and CSS for Credits page.
Development Log
Added table to credits.
Some additional edits to table.
Added CSS for table.
Started an SVG for the 404 page.
Investigated bottom padding issue. This seems like an iOS thing. I've implemented
the
fix I can
find,
but the issue remains. What I'm finding suggests it's an issue specific to when the
Apple Glass
(I think
it's Apple Glass, anyway) nav bar is visible. I'm not finding anything suggestions
other
than
the
padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom); and dvh
suggestions,
though.
Todo
Write the personal About-Me page.
Additional Todos
Verify right margins for content cards and investigate why <p>
and
<a> elements are not properly contained in the display cards.
Log bugs and releases in Jira. Add priorities and statuses.
Integrate Change Log and/or Journal into published website.
Refactor HTML and CSS for Credits page.
Development Log
Began About-Me page.
Figured out why I couldn't get ALightIs.Online to route to my GitHub Page — Had to
remove WordPress.
Developed html for 404 page minus SVG.
JavaScript for the 404 page was suggested by VS Code. Accepted. Not yet
tested.
Asked ChatGPT about why I was getting white space under my footer for my about me
and
credits
pages.
Turns out there's something called dynamic viewport height?
Updated existing vh values to dvh
Learned about and implemented the env(safe-area-inset-bottom)
value/calculation.
Wrote a blog post on why I was developing the about me page the way I was.
Wrote a followup blog post on AI usage and word choice in that blog post
Finished the About-Me Experience page.
Started working on a professional About-Me page. Realized it wasn't an about me
page.
Finished a
first
draft
of that document.
Worked with ChatGPT to get insights to use to develop an actual professional
about-me
page.
Started a blog post on developing the professional about-me page.
Todo
Write the personal About-Me page.
Create an SVG for the 404 page.
Additional Todos
Verify right margins for content cards and investigate why <p>
and
<a> elements are not properly contained in the display cards.
Log bugs and releases in Jira. Add priorities and statuses.
Integrate Change Log and/or Journal into published website.
Refactor HTML and CSS for Credits page.
Development Log
Committed changes to full in-progress site from yesterday to GitHub.
Received unprompted README proposal from ChatGPT. Curated and uploaded to private
working
repo.
Realized that it's probably time to update my resume with Jira and GitHub and also make
my
LinkedIn more generic so it may be less likely that I will be ruled out for
administrative
positions because my focus for the last year has been QA.
Determined that if I'm going to use ALightIs.Online as a project on my resume, I should
likely have something recruiter-facing.
Purchased ALightIs.Online domain.
Determined that I should try to have a clear "under construction" page hosted and
maintained
on my intended domain for reference by recruiters.
Created HTML and CSS for "Under Construction" splash page.
Set up placeholder About Me page.
Initial Credits page developed with CSS.
Committed to GitHub.
Recorded bugs noticed while committing to GitHub and trying to enable GitHub Pages.
Created initial README.md from ChatGPT-provided README for the overall project.
Tried to figure out how to implement ALightIs.Online. Site redirects to WordPress.
Stalled
on figuring the path forward.
Realized there is a difference between root paths and relative paths. Needed to fix
links on
all three pages.
Realized that aecochran.github.io/alightis.online won't function correctly if I leave
all of
the files in a folder instead of treating the repo as the folder. Fixed this and GitHub
repository appropriately.
Committed new structure to GitHub along with navigation and link title fixes.
Viewed site on Mobile for first time. Encountered 1 known issue and 1 new issue.
TODO
Update Resume.
Investigate and fix issue: Footer on Splash page is not visible by default. It overflows
outside the viewport. Likely CSS issue.
Borders between card and edge of viewport in mobile is not ideal. Consider @media-query
breakpoints or clamp() to have card take on increasingly more horizontal
space.
Verify right margins for content cards and investigate why <p> and
<a> elements are not properly contained in the display cards.
Log bugs and releases in Jira. Add priorities and statuses.
Integrate Change Log and/or Journal into published website.
Refactor HTML and CSS for Credits page.
Develop custom 404 page. Do not try to animate or mimic something like Clippy or an
idealized cartoon
avatar tapping on the inside of the monitor and asking letting the user know the page
they
are looking for doesn't exist. The site can't wait for me to develop the assets and
figure
out animation and sound integration. This is a lot of effort for no immediate functional
benefit. Prioritize other things, アホ.
Add content to the About Me page.
Updates to site structure to allow for page-specific styling, credits, changelogs,
versions,
etc.
Workable limited responsiveness for header/footer CSS. Learned about clamp().
Developed content for /home/index.html
Finished initial styling for hero banner and footer.
Began tracking todo items in Jira.
Continued developing hero banner.
Added journal entries for 7/30–8/1.
Maintained Credits page.
Began styling hero banner and footer.
Finished developing moon icon.
Began developing hero banner.
Started including information in Credits page.
Developed first draft of moon icon.
Created individual files for monogram iterations for eventual inclusion in relevant
project
page.
Started working on a spreadsheet of data related to a mobile game called "Tokyo
Debunker."
Applied for 5 jobs, including a very stretch technical writer position.
Caught up on journal entries.
Fourth GitHub commit — second for this project. Included updated journal entries.
Created a Jira account.
Added html resume, job search database documentation, and personal website html files to
GitHub.
Applied to six jobs.
Continued researching attendees to create a database including business names, official
websites, career pages, job boards, LinkedIn pages, etc.
Attended a job fair and began researching attendees to create a database including
business
names,
official
websites, career pages, job boards, LinkedIn pages, etc.
Additional initial development work on personal website.
