Dev Log: First PR Into Ecency

It might seem like a tiny thing, but I feel it to be a sort of milestone for myself. Today I submitted a PR to Hive account@ecency. This pull request is the first step toward integrating a simple video system for all of Hive's front ends.

It's been on my plate, on my to-do list, for a while. Some weeks ago now, Hive account@good-karma invited me as a contributor, and I made it a point to download the repo and learn enough about it to have a valid attack vector. Yet I'm not going to lie and say it's not intimidating to submit code.

So what am I attempting to do with this PR? I hear you asking. Well, the idea is simple to say, not so simple to do: to move away from the legacy video system we have for Hive account@threespeak for good. We still have the mobile app using the legacy path, but after that we would be done.

Also, this simplified upload system—the embed uploads, as I call them—should be easy enough to implement for any front end that wants to have Hive account@threespeak videos. It's loosely coupled, I guess, and thus flexible.

On the other hand, today I also submitted a big PR into our ride-sharing app, the one I talked about on the last Hive account@mantequilla-soft hangout. Implementing communities, verifications, and generally adding a layer of safety to the darn thing. As of right now, that PR—that working feature—has over 50 change requests, courtesy of my brother. When I say he's a rough code reviewer, I mean it.

At any rate, a productive day. Although it started with shenanigans. Shenanigans, mind you, that prevented me from assisting with the important call on DHF budgets that happened today.

And on that note, I think I'm going to call it a night while I listen to the playback.

—MenO