W31, 2020-07-27/08-02

this past week i worked on:

trust.support

preparatory work for implementing stripe’s customer portal; the main point is to think of a good user authentication layer to let them access their stripe account, as stripe does not provide this. current idea is to combine OTP email with a pre-step done through discord, since when signing up to any subscription model they get access to trust’s discord; if they all create a discord account, then it would be possible to implement a classic two-step login process. still there is a big if.

figured who’s gonna work on article export to pdf, and sketch out software stack and function process
first works session with new backend dev on general system architecture and git integration: main outcome is to fully leverage solr search to replace read-only api calls to the backend (eg do not read from file system just for that), and do editing operations with file system and git (plus update solr records)
roughly implemented image-transclusion option
kept re-working out editor’s stuff by re-writing lots of code
put back search and index-list templates, still work to do