Daily Dilly-Dallying

Public Awa Journal

Day 5 — Completing Task entity, Solved an obvious bug

Olaoluwa Oke | 2 June 2025

When I sat down to start coding, I just wanted to run the application and see where things stood. But instead, I was met with an authentication error: .........


Day 4 - Task Entity and Designing the Brand

Olaoluwa Oke | 24 June 2025

This afternoon, I sat at my desk trying to figure out why my TaskRequest DTO wasn’t being recognized. mumu me had named it TaskCreateRequest in the actual code. Minor mistake, but it stopped me cold and genuinely made me pause my music .........


Day 3- Tight Coupling? , More abut Exceptions,

Olaoluwa Oke | 22 June 2025

When i first modeled the room Entity , I made it have an attribute where it holds the list of the member is the roomm -val members : List of Users , It just felt natural, But this previous winter , i took a design patterns class and intuitively , I just knew something was wrong , The gang of four guys would be mad .........


Day 2 (Part 1) - User Entity, Password Encoder , BcryptPasswordEncoder

Olaoluwa Oke | 21 June 2025

I think I must’ve skipped over the User entity in my earlier notes. That’s probably because I wrote it on Day One — fast. Mostly because I had already written something nearly identical for my bookmarking app, Tabitha .........


Day 1 (Part 2) - DTOs, Global Exceptions Handling and Extension functions

Olaoluwa Oke | 20 June 2025

I don’t know how I went this long without hearing the term DTO. It stands for Data Transfer Object, but somehow i had not even heard of the concept .........


Day 1 - Implementing the Room Entity in Awa

Olaoluwa Oke | 19 June 2025

A few minutes into writing the Room model, I realized I was literally describing a house. like the shape of shared space .........


Day 0 - Ideation and Conceptual Modelling

Olaoluwa Oke | 18 June 2025

A few months ago, my roommate left a passive-aggressive sticky note on the fridge because someone kept using his oat milk. There are only two of us. And I’m allergic to oats .........