In this episode, we added flash messages (after a rough start with some networking issues). Then I tracked down a thorny issue. We found that there is a non-breaking space with ’timesince’ that affects the encoding and what links Gmail adds to emails ..read more

NATS is an awesome open source technology to help connect code together over a network. Whether you’re build a distributed microservice architecture or connecting IoT devices, NATS provides the tools you need to do that easily. In this talk, you’ll learn about NATS via a presentation with plenty of live coding examples ..read more

In this episode, we attacked the issue list. JourneyInbox is live and serving user and now it’s time to start polishing and building the full set of features. There are so many easy targets to fix that we focused on a few clear improvements to user experience and the user interface ..read more

In this episode, we had a bunch of issues to resolve post-launch. I set the code that causes trials to expire, made updates to who receives prompt emails, and added some polish to the sign up process and interface to make it clear what will happen in the flow. After those modifications, we worked through a set of smaller changes like setting up Dependabot and adding a missing database index ..read more

In this episode, we deployed all our user setup and Stripe configuration change to the live site and tested the new flows end to end. Along the way, we found a bug in djstripe as well as some final bugs in the JourneyInbox configuration that prevented things from working. This is why you test ..read more

In this episode, we completed the final features needed to get the site open for others to sign up. This included some dynamic limiting of the number of people allowed to sign up. We also had to add the template styling for the login page ..read more

In this episode, we completed the Stripe integration. I added all the necessary test code, incorporated the webhook for handling account activation, and wrote the view that Stripe needed to redirect to on successful signup ..read more

NOTE: The audio is a bit low. I did my best to boost the volume. Sorry for not dialing this in better during recording ..read more

In this episode, we did work to get the Stripe checkout session going. We set up Stripe Product and Price objects to get the subscription plan ready and got the Stripe checkout session working mostly end-to-end ..read more

In this episode, we continued on the Stripe integration. I worked on a new payments gateway interface to access the Stripe APIs needed for creating a check out session. We hit some bumps along the way because of djstripe’s new preference for putting the Stripe keys into the database exclusively ..read more