DEV Community: Jim Segal

31 days of commits complete!

Jim Segal — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:15:13 +0000

I did it.

Coming into 2020, I wanted to challenge myself to commit every day for the month of January. This was a harder challenge than I thought. I had a lot of ideas coming into the challenge. They kept flowing while I was making things, but I often found that the hard part was the gaining motivation to get into a project after a long day at work. As the process became more routine, it became easier to motivate myself and do more than a few commits a day.

Highlights

Looking through the data, I made 126 commits in 7 different repositories, which calculates down to about 4 commits a day. That's a lot more than what I initially set out to do. My top day was January 19th with 21 commits, I was really jamming out updates that day.

You can check out everything that I did throughout the month on Github. Here are a few examples of the larger projects I did:

Added darkmode toggle throughout jimsegal.com and saved it to a cookie.
Created a Nodejs api served on Heroku. Check it out at api.jimsegal.com!
- This allowed me to move a lot of the json data files to a Postgres database.
- I was also able to have single network requests instead of multiple for my /IsChicagoColderThanAnchorage project.
Consolidated a handful of scripts and dotfiles for my multiple computer setup.
Added Sentry error logging and Google tagging for more insights into how people use my site.
I also started documenting my progress via this blog.

What's next?

I don't think I'll stop coding but I might not be as stringent on how often I code. There are still two bigger projects that are on the docket for February:

Move all of the reading list json files to postgres and served from api.jimsegal.com.
Create a web version of tic tac toe.

Feedback

Seeing as this is my first Nodejs app, I'm looking for any reviews / comments / critiques on the app as a whole. Comment or shoot me an email about your thoughts. I would love to hear them.

Associating your git commits with a different email

Jim Segal — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 04:25:09 +0000

If you have multiple computers or multiple github accounts like I do sometimes you get the commits associated to the wrong account.

I'm currently in the middle of my 31 days of commits challenge and have done this a few times already. Each time I had to look up the set of commands for how to do this, so I figured I would just document it for the next time I need it.

Here we go

Check the git information:

  git log

Alter multiple commits

Find that commit

Find the commits that you want update and then copy the next commit hash.

Start the rebase

  git rebase -i -p <commit_hash>

If you haven't updated your default editor, you are in vi.

Don't be scared. I'll help you through this with the following commands:

i to get into insert mode
use arrow keys to move around and change the words pick to edit
esc to get out of insert mode
:wq to save and quit

Update each individual commit

  git commit --amend --author="Your Name <email@email.com>" --no-edit

  <enter>

  git rebase --continue

  <enter>

Verify things are changed

  git log

Celebrate!

Streak broken

Jim Segal — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 04:31:57 +0000

whelp.

So I was going really well on my 30 day challenge and I broke the streak.

I can make all the excuses in the world but honestly I forgot / preoccupied.

What actually happened was I had a late night deploy the night prior so I was up late which lead to me taking a nap. Then I had to rush to get ready to meet some family for dinner AND after dinner I had another late night deploy that was top of mind.

Regardless

I'm going to continue on and aim to finish out the month strong with commits for updating my site. I have lots of ideas to finish out the month strong and maybe beyond :fingers_crossed:.

I'm very proud that I'm able commit to committing way more than I initially thought I would this month.

I'll likely have a "how did Jim do on the challenge" write at the end of the month.

31 days of commits

Jim Segal — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 20:22:52 +0000

As a personal challenge, I want to try and commit to my personal github at least once a day for the next 31 days.

I think that this will help me to prioritize a bunch of the small improvements and new things that I would like to build instead of playing video games or mindlessly zoning out to twitch.

Here's my Github Progress for the month.

UPDATE