Week 004 — Refactoring Already
Less than a month in and already restructuring. The $_FILES problem forces a rethink of how item saves work, leading to a cleaner fetch()-based approach.
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Week 003 — The Bug That Taught Me PHP
A silently failing delete function leads to a fundamental lesson about PHP variable scope that would stick for the rest of the project.
Week 002 — From Zero to Items
The first feature lands — items can be created and images uploaded. A UUID utility gets born, and the QR code question appears for the first time.
Week 001 — The Stack Goes Up
Day one of srchParty — standing up the dev environment, the first database table, and a lesson about password hashing before a single feature was built.
"Building srchParty: A Devblog"
An introduction to srchParty — a lost and found platform built with privacy at its core — and why I'm starting to document the journey.