rubber duck debugging + reading documentation = figuring things out!

I spent last week doing productive procrastination to avoid working on getting the total cost and row count for my search API calls. I'd worked on it a couple times and kept running into issues, so instead I did a bunch of other things before finally getting back to it.

But first! This video was my last act of productive procrastination. I walk through my approach and a Notion template I made to help me not lose my mind while debugging.

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⏭️ Video chapters
00:00 intro + productive procrastinating
01:39 the last two tasks I need to do before closed testing!
02:30 one more productive procrastination act: this video
02:43 explaining rubber ducking
03:27 my debugging work log
04:37 my attempt to rubber duck that turns into reading documentation instead
09:40 inspiration strikes! finding an approach to try
10:04 the results after working for a few hours
10:40 the custom action
12:36 the results of using my debugging work log
13:32 using overlap filter on tags
15:22 outro + thanks for listening


🔗Mentioned in this video
~ Supabase Flutter library docs: https://supabase.com/docs/reference/d...
~ Supabase blog post on aggregate functions: https://supabase.com/blog/postgrest-a...
~ Debugging Work Log (Notion template): https://buymeacoffee.com/sjsscreen/e/...


🏷️ Tags
#buildinpublic #flutterflow


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