Squished the bugs and then some

I released a version of the Inner Drive Journal (the software running The Daily Parker) on Wednesday evening and immediately found some usability issues that I spent yesterday fixing. As I'm not in the habit of releasing software right before going to bed, for the same reason I try not to release software at 5pm on a Friday before leaving the country, I pushed the bits this morning.

The most obvious change is in the Calendar, where I've added code to reorder the events shown. Events are grouped into projects, which in this instance include the blog (by far the largest), media consumption, my travel log, and a couple of others used for maintenance and testing. Well, now I can choose one project to highlight at the top of the calendar, and I can choose whether or not to order the other projects or just lump them together. The current order is: travel log highlighted, blog posts on top, then everything else. I can further choose whether to put today's events on top of each group (the default) or put them under ongoing events.

The other cool thing is that I added maps to travel logs. That actually turned out to be kind of complex and is one of the biggest single Git commits of this release. The problem is that Earth is a spheroid. OpenStreetMap, being a street map, uses the Mercator projection because at higher zoom factors it orients streets correctly as people on the ground would perceive them. It was designed for navigation, after all. But it's crap at showing long distances, so for anything over 2,500 km The Daily Parker now uses equirectangular or Aitoff projections, depending on the distance.

But the coolest thing about this release is how long it took to code: just over 7 hours. A year ago, I couldn't even have coded the calendar changes in that amount of time, let alone finished the other 9 Jira cases, including a mechanical reordering of files in one of the projects that Claude did in four minutes.

I think this will be the last update for a few weeks as I have a ton of billable work coming up. So enjoy it, and keep commenting. Also: I'm open to enquiries about commercialization of this thing now that it's mature enough to leave the nest.