Building Mortimer, Day 7

Walther H Diechmann -

Day 7

I was a full week into building the next volume of Mortimer and I was so deep into building, with day 6 being a huge day, that I did not see it coming - stay tuned for the sausy details!

I had to stop the debug first thing this morning – and once I was ready to resume work, this is what greeted me!

Address already in use - bind(2) for "0.0.0.0" port 3000

somehow I cannot start dev or debug and the scary part is - I don’t know why!

I opened Activity Monitor and started sniffing around. Turns out it was this bad boy hiding in the pot-pourri

14745   ??  S      0:16.89 solid-queue-supervisor(0.9.0): supervising 14774, 14775, 14776

lingering behind the curtains not making it easy on me guessing what was really going on.
I kill -HUP 14745 and that was the end of it! Ohh - and the 14745 is the PID which most certainly will never match your case!

Landing page

Once I got in gear I spent a good half day transposing

Pocket - Invest at the perfect time.
By leveraging insights from our network of industry insiders, you’ll know exactly when to buy to maximize profit, and exactly when to sell to avoid painful losses.
Invest at the perfect time.

into the landing page for Mortimer.

Stopping the blue-box volume!

How the h***! I mean, I was just about to getting some real traction here and then this final blow!

Remember back a week ago when we kind'a lost most of our expected user base? With only one potential customer left – and now they gave up on us too. So even if we did pivot it was not going to be enough!

So the story could have ended here but as I am adding this paragraph almost 7 months down the road, it did not. We pivoted some more - a lot in fact. Only time will tell if we did the right thing!

This series ends here – but I'll start compiling a new one detailing the interregnum in a short while.