# That first commit

My first day is drawing to a close and I have committed a working signup page and login page. It's not a bad outcome, but I feel I should be even further ahead.

## Still fighting my enemy

 I had a lot of code cleanup to do because I was in the middle of converting my code to be more [DDD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design)-friendly and [SOLID](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID) before this started. This kind of premature optimization always ends up bogging me down. It's always a real challenge to balance learning how to do new things and being productive. Tomorrow I plan on tackling the [Helthe](https://helthe.co) API code that is also in its own transitionary phase and get it in working order. I have a couple of small essays I would like to publish as well. We'll see how all this goes! ## Design worries

 I don't have a screenshot to share today because I am just using auto-generated HTML directly. It's functional, but that's it. I might try to take a look at making things prettier tomorrow as well if I finish early (ha!). It dawns on me I should have probably put a line item for design. I am not a designer. I did a great job in a short time for my current marketing site, but I think this might end up being pretty time-consuming overall. I will probably just scramble to dress everything up and do a proper design pass after the week is over. ## Keep up with my progress

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