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This is a reverse chronological listing of updates on Sagefy’s progress. I will try to do these biweekly.

UPDATE – 2019 Oct 21

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2019 Sept 16 - 2019 Oct 20

• SEO updates
• Documentation updates
• Added security headers to all HTML requests
• Update to PostgresQL 12
• Start on technical architecture doc
• Update social channel graphics and copy

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Oct 21 - 2019 Nov 3

• Complete technical architecture doc
• Continue to work on outreach

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UPDATE – 2019 Sep 16

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2019 Aug 5 - 2019 Sep 15

• New blog post on adaptive learning: https://heiskr.com/stories/adaptive-learning
• Updated overview video: https://youtu.be/h9LD7GKtEa0
• Added some text to cards that were computer-made: https://imgur.com/adTChr2
• Created a statistics page: https://sagefy.org/statistics
• SEO tweaks
• Bug fixes

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Sep 16 - 2019 Sep 29

• Focus on outreach tasks

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UPDATE – 2019 Aug 5

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2019 Jul 22 - 2019 Aug 4

• I wrote a new blog post on the V2 Sagefy changes. https://docs.sagefy.org/stories/a-new-sagefy
• You can now edit cards. Example: https://sagefy.org/page-cards/26QmnfkxMTBQxVmHvb7aH3/edit
• You can now search the entire site. https://sagefy.org/search
• The logged in dashboard now provides helpful links to your contributions.
• When you complete a subject, you now get a celebratory page. Example: https://sagefy.org/subjects/95DCsixeoP7sxtmQp7481/complete
• Subjects now support “slugs” for SEO. Example: https://sagefy.org/subjects/dynamoelectric-machinery-2KvydQ7jqNsUBxBJetAbM8
• Old subject and user pages now correctly 404.
• Switched from Sparkpost to Mailgun for transactional email. Sparkpost is soon changing the maximum free emails from 25000 a month to 500 a month.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Aug 5 - 2019 Aug 18

• I’m going to observe the impacts of the most recent changes, and continue to look for search engine and social media opportunities.
• I may plan the next round of usability testing and feedback for the site to identify the highest priority opportunities to pursue.

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UPDATE – 2019 Jul 22

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2019 Jul 8 - 2019 Jul 21

• The ability to edit subjects and view the history of them is live!
• History pages for cards is live, but editing cards is still in progress.
• A few security fixes and refactoring work.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Jul 22 - 2019 Aug 4

• Ship the ability to edit cards.
• Time permitting, adding a sitewide search…
• …and ability to see subjects and cards contributing to the dashboard.

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UPDATE – 2019 Jul 5

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2019 Jun 10 - 2019 Jul 7

• A little off-cadence with this update :) I’m traveling soon so today’s the day.
• There’s now about 15,000 new cards in Sagefy! I did some natural language processing to summarize and generate multiple choice questions, and there’s videos from YouTube and Vimeo now as well. The quality is about 10% great, 70% good, 10% interesting, and 10% messy.
• If you haven’t seen it: https://twitter.com/sagefybyday <- A twitter bot that tweets a random Sagefy subject each day. Now even more fun with cards in the subjects :)
• Improved backup and deploy scripts
• Support for Vimeo videos
• Added schema.org information to the subject pages – hopefully for some better Google indexing

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Jul 8 - 2019 Jul 21

• Edit subject pages is high on the development list, so it’ll be possible to clean up some of the NLP generated content.
• …as is version history pages.

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UPDATE – 2019 Jun 10

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2019 May 28 - 2019 Jun 9

• Created talk pages; example: https://sagefy.org/subjects/W9UmrCsnrmgPvwp8mQRuoc/talk
• Updated overview video; page: https://sagefy.org/video-cards/39pvnAFhmmzVc4FKCxiNok
• Moved blog posts off Medium to https://docs.sagefy.org/stories

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Jun 10 - 2019 Jun 23

• I won’t have much time for Sagefy work these two weeks, but I’m investigating how to add lots of new cards to the existing 2000+ subjects that are largely empty currently.
• Edit subject pages is high on the development list, as is version history pages.

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UPDATE – 2019 May 28

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2019 May 13 - 2019 May 27

• I worked on creating lots of new subjects (1500+) based on the Library of Congress, using Amazon Mechanical Turk to help write original content. Some early signs show a significant traffic increase :)

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 May 28 - 2019 June 9

• Either the test suite, site search, or talk pages… guess we’ll see :)

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UPDATE – 2019 May 13

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2019 Apr 15 - 2019 May 13

• Created SEO-friendly pages for cards, subjects, and users.
• Definitely a good traffic increase since V1!

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 May 13 - 2019 May 26

• I’m going to work on creating lots of new subjects (cardless for now) based on a list of academic subjects… and probably use Amazon Mechanical Turk to help write original content.
• Current roadmap (not timeline specific)…
  • Continue improving the test suite.
  • Site search
  • Talk pages
  • History pages
  • Edit subjects and cards, subject relationships
  • Contributor management pages
  • Notifications

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UPDATE – 2019 Apr 15

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2019 Apr 1 - 2019 Apr 14

• If you haven’t looked at the site in awhile, take a look! There’s lots of big new ships in the last two weeks. I’m not big on social media so if anyone wants to help promote the site a little :)
• The full learning MVP is live.
• Creating subjects and cards is live, and integrated into the learning flow.
• Data pages for subjects are also live – for SEO.
• Test suite is running green and in progress.
• Dark mode support in the CSS.
• Accessibility fixes.

Upcoming Four Weeks: 2019 Apr 15 - 2019 May 13

• I plan to create SEO pages for cards and users.
• Continue improving the test suite.
• Current roadmap (not timeline specific)…
  • Site search
  • Talk pages
  • History pages
  • Edit subjects and cards, subject relationships
  • Contributor management pages
  • Notifications

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UPDATE – 2019 Apr 1

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2019 Mar 18 - 2019 Apr 1

• There are now subjects on the site, and you can add them to your list of subjects.
• Switched to a new domain for shortening: https://sgfy.xyz

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Apr 1 - 2019 Apr 14

• I’m close to being able to create a new subject.
• Then getting to implementing the learning experience :) Hoping to have this complete in this period.

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UPDATE – 2019 Mar 18

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2019 Mar 4 - 2019 Mar 17

• Ability log in / password reset / log out / settings.
• Start on learning experience – both anonymous and logged in.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Mar 18 - 2019 Apr 1

• Continue on learning experience – potenitally ship?

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UPDATE – 2019 Mar 4

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2019 Feb 19 - 2019 Mar 3

• Re-added the ability to sign up for an account.
• Progress towards log in / password reset / log out / settings.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Mar 4 - 2019 Mar 17

• Complete log in / password reset / log out / settings.
• Start adding back in the learning experience.

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UPDATE – 2019 Feb 19

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2018 Jan 7 - 2019 Feb 18

• So the site changed last week :)
• Things are limited now but moving. I’m finally on the updated tech stack. Most of the front-end and database schema are ready, so hopefully I can get this moving faster.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Feb 19 - 2019 Mar 3

• I’m going to try to get as much as I can on restoring user accounts (sign up, log in, reset password, settings, log out…). The plan after that is then anonymous & logged in learning, followed by “data pages” (search, view card…), then talk pages, and finally restoring the contributing experience.
• The next iteration will combine “units” and “subjects” into just “subjects”. This change will reduce the cognitive load of creating content, and make for a more linear contributing process. This suggestion comes from usability testing feedback.

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UPDATE – 2019 Jan 7

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2018 Nov 26 - 2019 Jan 6

• Been awhile! I’ve been mostly working on the updated database schema for the Sagefy V2 changes. Sagefy V2 focuses on allowing learning and contributing without signing in. There’s some other upcoming technical changes (GraphQL support) to help make future development quicker.
• If you want to see where Sagefy V2 is going, check out V2 Mocks! Feedback is welcome, you can reply to this email :)

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2019 Jan 7 - 2019 Jan 20

• Continue to work on updated database schema… I’m about 85% of the way there with the new schema!

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UPDATE – 2018 Nov 26

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2018 Oct 29 - 2018 Nov 25

• I’m still looking for more reviews of the V2 Mocks! If you have some time, check out the mock pages for V2 Sagefy. Feel free to click around; everything is static demo content. Feedback is welcome, you can reply to this email :)
• Started work on updated database schema for V2.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Nov 26 - 2018 Dec 9

• Continue to work on updated database schema… I’m wanting to encode as much as possible at this layer, so the application code does very little work.

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UPDATE – 2018 Oct 29

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2018 Oct 15 - 2018 Oct 28

• V2 Mocks are ready for review! If you have some time, check out the mock pages for V2 Sagefy. Feel free to click around; everything is static demo content. Feedback is welcome, you can reply to this email :)
• I made a few style tweaks to the live site to get it slightly more similar to V2.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Oct 29 - 2018 Nov 11

• Iterate on V2 mocks.
• Begin requirements and service change investigation for V2.

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UPDATE – 2018 Oct 15

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2018 Sep 17 - 2018 Oct 14

• I made some progress on the updated architecture, yet…
• I’ve conducted some more usability testing and review of analytics data.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Oct 15 - 2018 Oct 28

• Bigger picture (beyond the scope of two weeks), I’m shifting my efforts to address some major barriers to Sagefy’s growth:
  • Remove needing to sign up to start learning or create content.
  • Make creating and updating content easier. (Even after last year’s big update, is too difficult today.)
  • Provide more capabilities with significantly less code, making it easier to adapt to learner and creator feedback.
• These next two weeks I’m working on some plain HTML mocks to try to address some of these larger, experience-level issues. I’m hoping the next update email is a request for feedback on the mocks :)

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UPDATE – 2018 Sep 17

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2018 Sept 3 - 2018 Sep 16

• Worked on unit testing for updated architecture.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Sep 17 - 2018 Sep 30

• Continuing progress on updated architecture, particularly unit testing effort and getting foundation settled.

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UPDATE – 2018 Sep 2

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2018 Aug 20 - 2018 Sept 2

• Published new Medium article A Checklist to Make Your Own Learning Plan
• Published new Medium article How I Write React/Redux Projects in 2018
• Worked on unit testing for updated architecture.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Sept 3 - 2018 Sep 16

• Continuing progress on updated architecture, particularly unit testing effort and getting foundation settled.

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UPDATE – 2018 Aug 20

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2018 Aug 6 - 2018 Aug 19

• Personal computer is with Apple repair, so not much progress to report :(

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Aug 20 - 2018 Sept 2

• Once I have my computer again… continue work on code architectural updates to support upcoming features.
• Begin planning for next Medium article.

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UPDATE – 2018 Aug 6

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2018 Jul 23 - 2018 Aug 5

• Worked on updated service endpoints for public, user, and session routes.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Aug 6 - 2018 Aug 19

• Continue work on code architectural updates to support upcoming features.
• Begin planning for next Medium article.

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UPDATE – 2018 Jul 23

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2018 Jul 9 - 2018 Jul 22

• Worked on build process and home page for new infrastructure

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Jul 23 - 2018 Aug 5

• Continue work on code architectural updates to support upcoming features

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UPDATE – 2018 Jul 9

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2018 Jun 25 - 2018 Jul 8

• Published “8 ideas” article! (Finally!)

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Jul 9 - 2018 Jul 22

• Continue work on code architectural updates to support upcoming features

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UPDATE – 2018 Jun 25

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2018 Jun 11 - 2018 Jun 24

• Finished collecting research sources for “8 ideas” article
• Wrote a first draft for one section of “8 ideas” article
• Worked on development process for upcoming client side architectural shift

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Jun 25 - 2018 Jul 8

• Complete and publish “8 ideas of learning” article. If you’re interested in review help let me know!
• Continue work on code architectural updates to support upcoming features

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UPDATE – 2018 Jun 11

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2018 May 28 - 2018 Jun 10

• Putting together research sources for “8 ideas” article
• Wrote state schema and directory scaffolding for upcoming client-code update
• Fixed a major server-side rendering (client) bug

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Jun 11 - 2018 Jun 24

• Continue work on code architectural updates to support upcoming features
• Complete and publish “8 ideas of learning” article. If you’re interested in review help let me know!

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UPDATE – 2018 May 28

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2018 May 14 - 2018 May 27

• Created “Want to Help?” page for prospective contributors… if you’re interested in helping building Sagefy, even something small, check out the link!
• Updated README.md and homepage copy
• Added examples to Sound Parameters unit
• Started work on client code updates to support upcoming features

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 May 28 - 2018 Jun 10

• Continue work on client code updates to support upcoming features
• Continue research and writing for “8 ideas of learning” article. If you’re interested in research or review help let me know!

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UPDATE – 2018 May 13

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2018 Apr 30 - 2018 May 13

• Built “Phase” interactive example for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.
• Removed Google Analytics tracking from all pages.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 May 14 - 2018 May 27

• Get all five examples for Sound Parametrs on the site and in the test data.
• Make progress on 8 Ideas article.
• Start a list for prospective contributors.

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UPDATE – 2018 Apr 30

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2018 Apr 16 - 2018 Apr 29

• Shifted base website color from goldenrod to blue.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Apr 30 - 2018 May 13

• Build “Phase” interactive example for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2018 Apr 16

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2018 Apr 2 - 2018 Apr 15

• Worked on outreach and getting links to Sagefy on external sites
• Created a “Beta” landing page
• Continuing on Medium article on the 8 “big ideas”

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Apr 16 - 2018 Apr 29

• Build “Phase” interactive example for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2018 Apr 2

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2018 Mar 19 - 2018 Apr 1

• Built example for “Duration and Rhythm”
• Launched a test page to collect emails for “Make Your Own Learning Plan”
• Moved over dev newsletter sign up page to own server
• Updated code to check login status, so it logs you out if your session is invalid.
• Fixed double loading state issue.
• Addressed a security concern with Redis.
• Continuing on Medium article on the 8 “big ideas”

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Apr 2 - 2018 Apr 15

• Build remaining interactive example for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2018 Mar 19

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2018 Mar 5 - 2018 Mar 18

• Built example for “Spectrum and Color”
• Fixed issue where users could not log in or out intermittently. Redis was trying to write to disk; we use Redis only to track sessions and cache. Now we log 500s to help faster debugging.
• Continuing on Medium article on the 8 “big ideas”

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Mar 19 - 2018 Apr 1

• Build remaining 2 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2018 Mar 5

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2018 Feb 19 - 2018 Mar 4

• Continuing on Medium article on the 8 “big ideas”
• Built example for “Frequency and Pitch”
• Working on next batch of interactive examples

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Mar 5 - 2018 Mar 18

• Build remaining 3 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2018 Feb 19

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2018 Feb 5 - 2018 Feb 18

• Continuing on Medium article on the 8 “big ideas”
• Working on next batch of interactive examples

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Feb 19 - 2018 Mar 4

• Build remaining 4 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2018 Feb 5

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2018 Jan 22 - 2018 Feb 4

• Started next Medium article on the 8 “big ideas”
• Working on next batch of interactive examples
• Removed feedback component on site
• Migrated from virtual-dom to snabbdom
• Migrated from Mocha, Chai, & Sinon to Jest
• A few minor bug fixes

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Feb 5 - 2018 Feb 18

• Build remaining 4 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2018 Jan 22

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2018 Jan 8 - 2018 Jan 21

• Finished interactive example for amplitude/volume (Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit).
• Implemented Prettier for the client code.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Jan 22 - 2018 Feb 4

• Build remaining 4 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2017 Jan 8

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2017 Dec 11 - 2018 Jan 7

• Happy New Year!
• Switched from flake8 to pylint to support 2 space/indent across the board.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2018 Jan 8 - 2018 Jan 21

• Build 5 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.

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UPDATE – 2017 Dec 11

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2017 Nov 27 - 2017 Dec 10

• No updates. Tis the season for illness :)

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2017 Dec 11 - 2017 Dec 24

• Build 5 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.
• Build 4 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Human Hearing unit.

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UPDATE – 2017 Nov 27

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2017 Nov 13 - 2017 Nov 26

• Created the new “unscored embed” card kind. Simply specify a URL and it will be embedded on the page! The name may seem silly… but there may be a “scored embed” and “peer-scored embed” in the future.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2017 Nov 27 - 2017 Dec 10

• Build 5 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.
• Build 4 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Human Hearing unit.

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UPDATE – 2017 Nov 13

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2017 Oct 30 - 2017 Nov 12

Didn’t complete as much as hoped.

• Posted on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sagefy/
• Updated transactional email copy to include reply-to-unsubscribe copy.
• Deployed build process and outlined script for Web Audio API examples. Started on Amplitude example.

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2017 Nov 13 - 2017 Nov 26

• Build 5 interactive examples for the Intro to Electronic Music: Sound Parameters unit.
• Build “embed (view)” card kind (name pending)

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UPDATE – 2017 Oct 30

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Recent Changes

Because this is the first newsletter, I’m including some of the highlights of the past few months. Normally this newsletter will be pretty short.

• Entirely new content creation system, based on usability testing.
• Created a test “suggest” page: suggest new subjects and upvote too. http://sagefy.org/suggest
• Created repeatable process and faster, easier local dev with Docker Compose.
• Some API endpoints have been split for greater flexibility.
• Migrated from RethinkDB back to PostgresQL.
• Updated service test coverage to 96%.
• Building out a full sitemap for Google indexing.
• Font update from Georgia to Rubik. Come check it out!
• Lots of minor copy changes and bug fixes, styling consistency updates and usability improvements.
• Several new posts on Medium. http://stories.sagefy.org/

2017 Oct 16 - 2017 Oct 29

Page Card Kind: Sagefy always had video cards and choice cards. I’ve added the ability to create page cards. Page cards are written content. For now, formatting options include bold, italic, headings, and embedding images.

There is a new page card for each of the 29 units in the Electronic Music subject. The content is the same as the video for each unit, just in written form instead of video. Here is an example https://sagefy.org/cards/PC9ac99ZQqWR-ZiEyP0wgw

Upcoming Two Weeks: 2017 Oct 30 - 2017 Nov 12

Beginning work on interactive examples – using the Web Audio API – of each of the 29 Electronic Music units. See the list at https://github.com/heiskr/sagefy-electronic-music

This will also be a new card kind, though I haven’t picked a name yet.

Upcoming major items in the backlog

• Completing interactive examples for Electronic Music subject.
• Updating the state management system for the client code.
• Rebuilding the suggest page based on feedback.
• Enable editing content from the web interface.

…and about 120 more tasks currently.

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