devlog 001: personal dashboard
got a working desktop app running by end of session. the whole point was to stop missing Canvas assignments; one screen, always open, checks automatically.
backend is FastAPI running as a sidecar inside a Tauri shell, SQLite for storage, APScheduler polling Canvas every 30 minutes. token lives in the OS keychain, never the repo. first-run onboarding handles the whole flow.
the bugs took most of the time. CORS was failing because Tauri dev mode sends a different webview origin than a production build; nothing in the docs tells you this. the /setup endpoint would silently hang because there was no timeout on the Canvas validation request. the dashboard never appeared after login because a display: flex rule was winning over the hidden attribute, so onboarding just stayed on screen even after auth worked fine. and at some point the app started spawning duplicate processes with separate backends, which needed single-instance enforcement to fix.
real credentials work, assignments load from the live API, checklist survives restarts. it’s on GitHub. palette is plum and pink, pulled from my VS Code theme.
next up is Google Calendar.