LB strats; Add studygroup-bot; 2013 PaaS Kerfuffle

Musing 💭:

I love Sundays. Sundays are when I sleep in and then after (leisurely) waking, after my usual coffee and muffin routine, I just let my mind wander for a bit. It takes about an hour for all of the threads to slowly spin up and come online. During this prolonged bootup, I use Sunday mornings to mull over the previous week and reflect on what I've been working on and where I wish to go next.

In that vein, I think there's a feature that the dashboard is currently missing. Right now it features one Daily Accomplishment entry per day and that's nifty/useful. But sometimes I want to write longer thoughts not specifically attached to a day. And on Sundays I want to begin also writing my Weekly Reflections here too.

To this end, I've been brainstorming a new feature idea-- haven't figured out all of the details yet, but here are some main points:

On Sunday cards, in addition to the day's main card, I'm going to begin writing my Weekly Reflection in a separate comment on that card. So in GH parlance: Same issue number but new comment id. These Weekly Reflection comments will always begin with ## Weekly Reflection.
On Go server, I'm going to configure the webhook payload processing logic to specifically look for comments with that format. If found, Go server will render those card contents in a separate widget on the dashboard GUI somewhere.

Will start implementing this idea this afternoon. So excited! 😄

Also, in other urgent breaking news: Today, I'm going to try dropping Chrome and start using the new Edge! I have a pretty beefy laptop (a 64 gb of RAM, Core i7 gen8, X1E) but it's several years old now and I've been noticing the all my bajillions of Chrome windows/tabs do tax it pretty hard. (Eg. Its fans spin up like it's trying airlift outta Kuwait but I'm just trying to open Gmail... 😅) Idk if Edge will stick but the final nail in the coffin for Chrome was recently, I noticed that when I shift-click on a link, Chrome will highlight all of my text before opening a new window! Clearly the keydown or keyup event isn't being processed in the right order...

Additionally, my X1E finally updated to the Win10 2004 build (better late than never, I guess) and this new Edge I finally updated to finally runs on Chromium. With legacy Edge is being put to pasture, and me being on GH all the time anyways now for this Study Group hobby project, I figured the GH people will probably put time/effort into making GH run well on MS's browser, right? Other observations so far: GH on Edge auto-loads in Dark Mode even when I'm signed in anonymously. I think it's respecting my Windows Theme Preference? I think 🤷‍♂️? Anyway, that's cool-- opening GH in Chrome's incognito mode definitely doesn't open in dark mode, so I'm always blinded by all that white. Just another straw on the camel's back! 🐪🥤 So assuming I don't find any deal breakers these next few days with Edge, though it's been a fun ~13 year ride-- "Bye, Google Chrome! Sayonara!" 🙂🙋‍♂️

PS. Btw, in case people are wondering why I occasionally link to random English grammar articles in my blogging... no, it's not me trying to be pedantic/didactic! 😅 Shaza occasionally reads these entries and since she's still learning English, I usually link a turn of phrase or idiom if it's something that I think may help her. That's all. 🙂

Today's Result:

Today a new study group member joined! I'm pleased to welcome, studygroup-bot! 😄

Moving forward, all automated actions performed by Go server will now be done with the studygroup-bot account. Effectively, in the GH issue audit trail, you'll thus start seeing automated updates like this:

On a related note, today I officially joined the GitHub Developer Program-- it's totally free and anyone can do so! It's just a checkbox in your profile settings that you toggle. You give a support email and website url to register! I'm now apparently on the mailing list for GH developer api updates, etc.

Wohoo! I now even have a new Highlight on my profile page! 🙂

Observations & Next Steps 🔭👣:

Despite asking on SO, I sadly still don't know the best practice for naming Secret Keys. Right now, I've gone with 100% obfuscation but Idk if that's correct. 🤷‍♂️☹

Tomorrow: Time to bust out the regex and begin working on that Weekly Reflection idea I had this morning! 😎

References 🔗:

Extra/Fun 🎈🎉🥳:

Tonight, Shaza & I watched Runaway Jury, the 2003 movie based on the John Grisham legal thriller. It's far-fetched and outrageously impossible but we liked it. Haha, the movie's tagline:

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