New Weekly Email
This is the very first Cue News. Obviously, I’ve sent out news about Cue in the past, but I’m going to make it a regular thing, along with the other emails about planning and habits.
New Hosting
In the beginning, Cue was a Blockstack project. While we may go back to supporting Blockstack as a backend for users who want the decentralized ownership and resulting privacy, at the time, it just didn’t support what Cue needed to work.
At the next stage, it was backed by Okta/Digital Ocean. This was a very brief stage.
During this time, I learned about Firebase, which provided exactly the infrastructure needed to create Cue quickly.
Since switching the database over, I’ve been using a simple static hosting site for the web assets (html, css, javascript, etc.).
But no more!
Firebase offers hosting, and Cue is now hosted there, which is great.
This will allow for faster startup times, easier deploys (faster releases), and an easier to manage staging environment.
New Staging Environment
What is a staging environment? It’s basically a second instance of Cue, that doesn’t have access to any of the Cue data.
Staging is where I can put changes to Cue to test them out, without worrying about bugs in those changes messing up your plans.
Until those changes are deployed to the production environment, they can be tested, fixed, and generally messed around with.
It’s a way of protecting your experience in Cue.