Had some time to hide away at a coffee shop on Saturday and get a little bit of momentum. Unfortunately, just as I was hitting my stride, it turned out that they closed at 4pm instead of 7pm as was posted on their website🤦‍♂️.

No matter. Still got some progress. As usual, I also squeezed in micro sessions of coding when I could between family time.

Part of what I wanted to get do was get all my todos down in a file. For mhy day job, I'm all too familiar with the major project management tools and will do anything I can to avoid more time in them than I have to. Also, being a one-man show, there's no reason to over complicate the situation. I just need a simple todo list to capture work as I come up with it that lives in my code as opposed to an external service that I'll never visit.

With that, I did find this nice extension for vs code that is essentially just a thin presentational layer over a todo markdown file, which is perfect for my needs.

Beyond that, I got journal posts showing on the main page. I tried a couple of different looks before settling on what is there now. My top priories are to

1. Clarify the intent of ProjectGallery.me
2. Figure out the business model

In reality, 2 is the top priority since a project is not a product until someone is willing to pay for it. And 2 can't happen unless 1 is done.

From there, being user number 1, I'll continue iterating on it for my own needs and posting about it and other projects as I go. Exercising the app as it meets my needs I'm hoping will function as the best form of advertisement.