decoded: integrity

[!Note] This is part of my decoded series, a collection of lessons learnt from each major project I’ve undertaken.

Learnings

Doing questions on a topic every day really makes you better at it.
- Writing questions on a topic REALLY makes you better at it.
You genuinely develop quite an insane intuition for topics when you immerse yourself in them for a prolonged period.
Development is a blast when you have the right tooling all available in advance.
Nice UIs aren’t that difficult to build if you prototype and think through things properly.

I wasn’t sure how to go about storing the questions.
- Originally, I considered writing JSON manually, but this was clearly unideal (as much as I love manually writing JSON).
- I settled on writing each question in its Markdown file, using YAML frontmatter for metadata and then writing a small parsing engine in Ruby to extract the text blocks.
- Organising by files is pretty nice, since it makes finding a particular question and tracking its version history much easier.
- I decided against using Squarkdown to export to .svx files, since questions needed more fine-tuned formatting and different treatment depending on their topic.
Writing LaTeX manually is long. Luckily, we can type mathematical expressions in Desmos and ctrl+CV, which directly copies the raw LaTeX!