I’ve been down the UI Rabbit Hole! In one way it feels kind of good, because\nI have been doing some progress. On the other side, I’ve failed at documenting\nand writting about the process.<\/p>\n
Even that I am doing progress, and advancing stuff, there are a lot of things\nin they way I work that need some improvement.<\/p>\n
Everything is happening in a very unorganized way: no planning, just working\non what I think is the next most important thing. I am afraid that with this approach\nI might miss the big picture, and sometimes miss what is really the next important\nthing.<\/p>"},{"title":"Shopify Data Models","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2024_10_26_shopify_data_models\/","pubDate":"Sat, 26 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2024_10_26_shopify_data_models\/","description":"
In order to provide a useful application, the most important Shopify models\nto understand are the I need to know which fields I can map, in order to fill the nofifications\nrequired fields. There might be missing fields, or fields that might be\nrelated to other entities.<\/p>"},{"title":"Frontend Required","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2024_10_20_frontend_required\/","pubDate":"Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2024_10_20_frontend_required\/","description":" SendRules is intended for backend usage and a good API is its primary\ninterface, but Textashop is for a different audience that will require\nsome good UI in order to interact with the notifications.<\/p>\n SendRules<\/a> for shopify (I might need to find\na different name for it) should land in the\nNotification Apps<\/a>\nsection of the app store,\nso its a good place to start looking at the minimum requirements to standout.<\/p>"},{"title":"The Side Side-Project","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2024_10_13_the_side_side_project\/","pubDate":"Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2024_10_13_the_side_side_project\/","description":" Focus is a requirement to success. On the other side, putting all your\neggs in the same basket is a risky choice. But what about having\nan small side project to feel the pain of using your main side project ?<\/p>\n Initially I planned to revisit Sendrules<\/a> and\nsee if there were any work in progress tasks, close them to have the\nproject in a clean state and start collecting feedback on the idea.<\/p>"},{"title":"Picking Up Habits","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2024_10_05_picking_up_habits\/","pubDate":"Fri, 04 Oct 2024 02:08:59 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2024_10_05_picking_up_habits\/","description":" This is a “recycled” post: I intended to publish this at the beginning of the\nyear. However, on the personal side, this 2024 has been a little bit rough, and\nafter a loved one passed away in April, I struggled to make any efforts beyond\nwhat was required to perform my work.<\/p>\n Luckily, on the professional side I had a great support from\neverybody at KrakenD<\/a> that helped me navigate\nthose personal issues.<\/p>"},{"title":"Contributing to learn Go","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2018_01_13_golang_dict_whitelisting\/","pubDate":"Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2018_01_13_golang_dict_whitelisting\/","description":"Learning Go through contributing to an existing project"},{"title":"Set up Prometheus and Grafana","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2017_12_30_prometheus_grafana\/","pubDate":"Sat, 30 Dec 2017 19:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2017_12_30_prometheus_grafana\/","description":"Monitor with Prometheus and Grafana"},{"title":"Simple server with aiohttp","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/simple_server_with_aiohttp\/","pubDate":"Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/simple_server_with_aiohttp\/","description":"Building a small service with Aiohttp."},{"title":"Finding image duplicates","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2017_05_25_finding_image_duplicates\/","pubDate":"Tue, 23 May 2017 11:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/2017_05_25_finding_image_duplicates\/","description":"Finding image duplicates when they come from different sources have some details that must taken into account, and differs a lot from finding file duplicates."},{"title":"Your App, your public API","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/your_app_your_public_api\/","pubDate":"Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/your_app_your_public_api\/","description":"Your App is exposing the API to everyone."},{"title":"Setting up TMUX","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/settingup_tmux\/","pubDate":"Sun, 15 Jan 2017 11:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/settingup_tmux\/","description":"Improving my environment using tmux"},{"title":"Moving out code","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/moving_out_code\/","pubDate":"Sun, 30 Oct 2016 11:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/moving_out_code\/","description":"Creating modules from reusable units of code"},{"title":"Bot subscription process and Celery tasks","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/bot_subcription_process_and_celery_tasks\/","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/bot_subcription_process_and_celery_tasks\/","description":"Playing with the FB bot api to notify users about events."},{"title":"First steps with the Facebook Messenger Bot API with Python","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/toying_with_facebook_bot\/","pubDate":"Sun, 28 Aug 2016 11:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/toying_with_facebook_bot\/","description":"Playing with the FB bot api to notify users about events."},{"title":"Setting up Pelican Blog","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/settingup_pelican\/","pubDate":"Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:30:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/posts\/settingup_pelican\/","description":"Setting up a pelican site generator blog for my personal web page, with ipython integration."},{"title":"About","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/about\/","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/about\/","description":{}},{"title":"Projects","link":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/projects\/","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/hontecillas.com\/projects\/","description":" A backend system to send notifications to users.<\/p>\n It takes care of selecting the appropriate language for the\nrecipient, and handling the user preferences<\/strong> for what channel to\nuse to receive each kind of message (email, sms, telegram message).<\/p>\n It can also be seen as an internal proxy to different notification\nservices providers<\/strong>, like twilio, sendgrid, mailgun, etc.. useful to\navoid vendor lock-in.<\/p>\n This project was born after having seen different companies\nbuilding this very same system in different ways and just with slightly\ndifferent needs.<\/p>"}]}}Customer<\/code> (that will become the recipient of\nthe messages) and the Product<\/code> (that will be the main content we want to\ninform a customer about).<\/p>\nShopify App Store Exploration<\/h1>\n
Let me introduce you Textashop<\/h1>\n
Live<\/h1>\n
SendRules<\/a><\/h2>\n