Patrick Glendon McCullough
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Patrick Glendon McCullough
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4 years ago

Well I certainly seem to have achieved my goal of getting myself to use my website more... Spent much of the day fiddling with it. Added a fancy little background pattern I like and integrated an API to replace the GPS coordinates with a place name (hover your mouse over the blue pin at the top right and it says "Cochecton, New York", for instance). Also, my main use of the site is that it has a little control panel that only I see when logged in that has a custom email client I built. Emails I receive get routed through the Postmark API, which sends a post query to my server which I then write to my site's database. I've never gotten around to dealing with attachments, which come as a massive string of random characters. Today, finally set it up so that said random characters get converted into files and sent to my Amazon Web Services hosting account so I can access them. Satisfying little achievement for a lazy day. My next goal is to integrate Socket.IO to notify me of new emails, but no idea if/when I'll get to that. Also managed to finally start revising the novel. Honestly I'd been reluctant; so often I set out to fix up a flawed draft in editing, then get so turned off in revisiting it that I shove it in a drawer. Encouragingly though, I gave myself such a strict checklist of what I was actually looking for in this read-through that I was able to go through it in a more detached way than usual.