DEVLog - February
February devlog. Scan Documents app progress, IMG Processing API updates, SignatureAPI connectors, website migration to Astro. Coding & software development insights
Hello everyone, I'm back today to show you some of the progress of my latest projects during February, definitely a great month full of fun and insights to talk about.
Scan Documents
A couple of months ago I needed to scan some documents in my process of digitalization of physical resources like certificates, credentials, ids, etc. In order to fix that problem, I built a pretty basic document scanner application that I named "Scan Documents" and presented as main project the past month in my DevLog - January
Demo of Scan Documents
During February I implemented many changes and almost finished the MVP to launch the app. The main problem to solve was memory optimization and performance issues that were fixed after starting to use the Origin Private Filesystem (OPFS), which allowed to move blobs in memory to storage to use it when they are needed instead leaving them on memory.
The app is almost ready to release, and you can try it on the link above. I'm just fixing some issues for secondary browsers like Safari and Firefox, and implementing a feedback service that can be reused by my projects.
IMG Processing
IMG Processing is a tool to integrate image processing, analysis, and edition, in applications with ease. This month, I didn't implement new features, but tried to enhance the test suite of the existing features to prevent somo huge errors that were detected too late in many cases.
On the other hand, I started to think on the creation of new pages and guides to enhance the development experience, using some prompts that have been working nicely.
As you may think, I have plans to add an endpoint to scan documents, but after trying a couple of weeks of this month, I don't feel it will be possible soon. However, the API for Scan Documents will be released in a few months, so I'm confident this feature will come as a API wrapper of Scan Documents.
SignatureAPI
SignatureAPI is a high volume digital signature platform, and the Startup where I work.
This month was focused on updating the Power Automate connectors with all the new features the API had received in the last quarter.
On the other hand, we moved our frontends from Vercel to AWS Amplify, thinking in bigger things that will come next.
More Projects
Other updates in my projects:
- I started the migration of my website to Astro. The problem that has my current porfolio is that is over Nuxt 2, most of the dependencies are outdated, and most of the new features I have to implement with pSEO cannot be integrated or they are too complex to do. Additionally, I would like to move this blog to my website too, but I don't think it will be done this year.
- Out of curiosity, I started a new project to see if AI could make an app by itself. It failed, but probably I will work on it and launch the following months.
The Future
That's it, I hope you have a great time as me reading this blog entry, and invite you to build with me. Enter to the links of my projects, contact me, give me feedback, and share with others. Let's work together and change the world!
hank you for reading my blog, and I hope to see you again in the next post!