Posted on: May 18th, 2025
So what's been going on recently in my Software Development journey?
Firstly, I fixed a few (many) things wrong with the BigBookstore, as it turns out I had forked an older version on accident when I moved it to aws hosting.
Notable Updates:
- Fixed backend management of "purchases" (previously the frontend always assumed nothing went wrong)
- Added button to autofill personal info with dummy data for testing. It's still there in the live version as the website is used as a proof of concept instead of an actual bookstore, and it's reasonable that someone testing my website wouldn't trust personal info/credit card management. (TODO: remove errors after pressing autofill button)
- Fixed some minor css issues, including removing unused css files and adding more transitions.
I've also been learning Flutter, as I saw a few job postings that required it.
So I made a quick flutter project or two. So far (and I'm pretty early on in learning) the most difficult thing seems to be making layouts look pretty, and even then a quick google search showed that I could convert Figma to a Flutter layout, which may be my next step. (Side Note: I haven't decided which flutter project to continue or if I would make an entirely new project).
I've also been thinking, and realized that most of my projects fall under web (or mobile) development, and I should probably try to create a more standalone project. Unfortunately, I am kinda bad at ideas, so when I think of something, I will probably just make a new post about it. (and maybe update this post as well).
I'm kind of leaning towards a game, but I'm not sure if I want to use a full game engine or something like pygame (which I guess is still technically game engine) or if I should just do gui elements. That does raise a point though, in that I've never worked with python GUI before, so maybe I should try that out first. I could make a simple quiz game to test it out and go from there. And the first result on google mentioned tkinter, so that's where I'll start.
Hopefully I update this blog soon with a complete quiz game, but for now, here's the repo!