Dev Diary
I thought I'd try to keep a dev diary to help me refresh my memory of what I've been up to before an interview. Or maybe this will even answer some questions ahead of time!
I needed to configure a server with Apache and mod_wsgi to get my Django based Recipe Book app up and running. Server things aren't really my forte, and it took me a while to work through some issues with SSL and the Apache config, but I managed to get it working!
6/5/2026
We had a very short timeframe for onboarding a new client, and as part of that I needed to make a new instance of the React app with their company branding. I only had their existing site to go on, but managed to get it done ahead of the rest of the company.
May 2026
There was a lot of untested code in the project, so I used code coverage tools to see where things could be improved and increased out code coverage from 39% to over 80%!
November 2025
While adding some new functionality to a React app, I had some issues with state. I ended up refactoring 3 components to be function base components instead of class based, cleaned up state and the hooks so that everything happened when it should, and API calls only happened as many times as needed. I got to put some things I'd just learnt in a React course to good use!
June 2025