Progress, Polishing, and a Sudden Deployment Scare!
Hey everyone! Since I wasn’t able to write much in my last devlog—because I was low on time and only posted a few sentences as a summary—I’ve decided to write more this time.
I’ve been chipping away at the Fortfact app and just pushed some fun updates. I’ve expanded the pool of content with a handful of brand-new facts and fortunes for you to discover, and I also refreshed the text in the welcome box to make it a bit more inviting. I also gave the UI a little makeover—I shrunk the welcome window’s overall size so it feels less intrusive, and tucked it neatly into the bottom-right corner of the screen and changed the text inside it.
Behind the scenes, I also took some time to dive into the codebase and refine a few areas that felt a bit rushed and messy during the initial build.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing, though. I ran into a massive roadblock trying to deploy to GitHub Pages. For a moment, everything broke and it gave me quite a shock! It took a solid chunk of troubleshooting time, but I managed to untangle the issue and get everything live.