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it’s been a while since i’ve posted a devlog, well anyways, let me update you all on what’s been going on.

one of the more interesting things to talk about, i made a tutorial feature, and i spent excessive hours making all of the animations and page transitions as smooth as possible

also, i actually setup (fixed) the report question pipeline in firebase, as my lack of any data entry made me a tad bit suspicious

anyways, the majority of the time was optimizing the speed and performance of the website. one of my main goals was to make free sat prep accessible to everyone, and animations that can crash chromebooks don’t exactly achieve that goal

anyways, like always, comment any features you want to see / bugs you want to see fixed / criticism / praise (much appreciated)

it’s been a while since i’ve posted a devlog, well anyways, let me update you all on what’s been going on.

one of the more interesting things to talk about, i made a tutorial feature, and i spent excessive hours making all of the animations and page transitions as smooth as possible

also, i actually setup (fixed) the report question pipeline in firebase, as my lack of any data entry made me a tad bit suspicious

anyways, the majority of the time was optimizing the speed and performance of the website. one of my main goals was to make free sat prep accessible to everyone, and animations that can crash chromebooks don’t exactly achieve that goal

anyways, like always, comment any features you want to see / bugs you want to see fixed / criticism / praise (much appreciated)

the daily question i always ask myself…
work on something useful … or spend wayyyy too long on some random feature

anyways today i did the latter:

i built a cool animation for the homescreen that animates a variety of different graphs, with a natural drawing animation and background glow

the hardest part (took me 2-3 hours just to build) was making a feature where the lines dim when behind text / buttons on the ui, as i didn’t want the brightly-colored graphs obscuring visibility

i’ve been cooking up some new features all day… literally all day… anyways now that school is out, i have so much more time to spend, so i added these features:

practice set creator- ai scans the bank and detect and flags certain similar questions for practice

improved vocab- actually made the vocab sections track and record progress, while recording the states of each individual term (this took a LOT of time to figure out the logic for)

(ignore the bad video quality)

FINALLY got the filter animation to actually work. still buggy in a few places (the time spent slider has some issues) but overall looks pretty cool :)

working on an interactive home screen feature where there’s a little filters section, and the user can control it ANDDD there’s an existing cursor that moves around and demos. currently facing issues with the demo cursor just leaving though…

just spent a solid 3 hours of my life trying to design a vertical carousel for the home screen and eventually ended up with so many bugs that i just chose to use a static image 💔💔💔💔

been working on improving the search feature so finding old questions is actually less painful.

one issue i ran into is that a lot of questions use KaTeX for the math, so even if something looks like normal text on the page, it’s not always stored in a way that’s easy to search. stuff like fractions, exponents, equations, etc. can be weird because the plain text version and the rendered math version don’t always match up.

spent a while today trying to actually apply and get a reddit api key (harder than i expected)

been working on replacing the old homescreen iframes with fully built-in windows across the home page. iframes worked fine at first, but they started to feel slow, especially when actually interacting with them and the other animations

i was having a lot of issues w/ all of the homescreen animations and loading 3 iframes at once

the image attached is actually a full recreation of the bank just w/o all the other questions and some features just for the home page

working hard or hardly working? couldn’t tell ya but im improving the stats page :)

designing a practice test results viewer in bluebook style :)

as a person who despises UI design, recreating an interface effectively 1/1 is much more annoying than i expected

started working on learning the api :)

been working on adding physical practice tests to the website, mainly by importing the old paper SAT practice tests so they’re easier to use inside 1600.now.

the idea is to make paper practice feel less disconnected from everything else. instead of downloading a pdf, taking the test, and then having your work live somewhere separate, these tests can start becoming part of the same system as the rest of your studying.

it’s a pretty big import job, but once it’s in, you’ll be able to use older official-style practice in a cleaner way and keep more of your progress in one place.