We are now 12 hours into Sunday. The last day before the work week restarts. The last day of finals week at my university. Also, the day of my city's massive marathon (of which I live near the main drag... silly loud healthy people).

And what have I doing? Cursing out AWS. Repeatedly.

My workflow when it comes to AWS is that if something doesn't work, I nuke it and try again. So I've nuked my AWS resources about... 4 times today. This is what I have now:

You know what this is? Progress

I initially set up a CodeStar instance, which automagically sets up every part of the build pipeline and even will set a Github repo for you. Then I took on too much too fast and borked that build pipeline. Nuke, try again.

Second instance was trying to get environment variables set up properly. Broke that pipeline, nuke, try again.

Third instance was trying to set up a some of the Elasticbeanstalk project templates myself and try to build off that. Nope, nuked.

Fourth instance was taking that further by thinking I'd try actually understanding the CodeStar tech stack and manually make it all myself. That's terribly painful. Permissions, S3, pipeline, codebuild... yeah, no.

Fifth instance: back to the beginning. Took my default Node Lambda CodeStar fresh build, added Pusher's default JS they have in Getting Started, then tried to build it. Was a little fancy at first which failed, so I deleted that code and rebuilt. Looks like this works now! Though I had to set up this CodeStar repo as a private one since I can't yet figure out how environment variables work, and you all on the Internet aren't getting my secret.

Cost Breakdown thus far

• Domain name (not used yet) - $12/yr
• Python Dev Humblebundle so I could get a cheap egghead.io license for their AWS videos - $20
• AWS student perks and free tier stuff - Free!
• Pusher default sandbox tier - Free!
• My entire Sunday - priceless (not really -- I would have been doing chores or Fallout 4)

Stuff still to do

• An entire front end. It's a blank page.
• Pretty much an entire back end

Stuff not left to do

• A deployment stack!
• Pick a name for the app -- I told my boyfriend that it was a shop where you sell emojis so he named it Shopoji.

Nice to haves

• Figure out how to pass in info like the secret key at build time so I can open source again
• Get the DNS settings right to use my domain name
• Actually read and watch the stuff I bought for Python just to get that egghead.io key

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