MINI DEV LOG: Grace Crashes Out Doing Web Development for Cornell Engineering's Sailing to the Stars (one that is very overdue)

Developing an informative, responsive, pleasant to look at website. Aka the consquences of my own actions.

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📅 July 2, 2025

Website Published in Cornell Chronicle!

The website has been linked in the new Cornell Chronicle article! Top article too We did it gang! I consider it an accomplishment!

I was actually jumpscared initially because I was under the impression this article was releasing Friday, and I didn't finish the Technicals section dropdown pages on the website. Upon learning the news article and subsequently the website was live, I emergency patched it so fast lol. I actually pride myself on my speedy speed.

slack message when i found ou tmy shijt live
the time elapsed between learning the website was live and the time it took to patch (for 3 pages it was pretty fast)
📅 June 26, 2025

Crashing Out Trying to Request a Domain

Tell me why calling Cornell IT connected me to the GRUMPIEST MAN and he said "we havent had someone request a domain in a while" lol. I eventually opened a support request ticket for the Engineering school IT and they got back to me. But wow it was goofy

pelase plesa eplease give me a domain
pwease give me a domain
📅 June 24, 2025

WE GRINDED OUT A MVP WEBSITE TODAY!!

Gang, it is kind of fun developing for the web! Especially with a theme in mind-this time it's sciency and informative, so when I had to make any design choices (i.e if the Figma I was referecing didn't have enough designs) , it was cool to keep that in mind. Yea we cranked something significant out today. And, I learned html scroll-behavior: smooth; is litearlly my favorite line of code it does so much. I finished almost all the pages, fixed the dropdown on mobile and desktop, fixed some other bugs, the websit she kinda cute.

Now, I am not a mobile engineer, but it was actually fun switching from the phone icon to desktop icon in f12 inspect mode to see what 50 things are wrong for mobile. I am feeling the joke of how web developers are also mobile developers now; they just put a @media in their css files and boom, ross-platform dev, mobile dev, yea let's throw in the buzzwords Anyways here are some screenrecordings of the website! Super-technical drpdown section still needs content, but it is the same structure as the other pages, so it is not a big deal.

she kinda cute
girl gave up o nscreen recoridng it has been a long day
📅 June 23, 2025

We Ball

Found out Sailing to the Stars' launch date is projected July, 29. There is time!! I can now iterate with their engineers multiple times for the website content, layout, looks, and add the basic animations from the Alpha Cubesat Website that we originally referenced.

📅 June 22, 2025

what The heck is Web Development

Sorry Joyce Shen and Thank You Joyce Shen for setting up the github for Sailing to the Stars's website's Next.js architecture and Github.

As the title implies, I am indeed soloing the development of an informative website for the general population and Cornell students to learn about a Cornell Engineering spacecraft lab's mission initiatives and technicals. They build lightsails! Cool! And, their launch is coming up really quickly so I gotta get this done!!! There are like 8 pages to do haha oops. I love those kids though. Good luck babes.

Also, last spring semester, we interviewed a lot of designers, as we were looking for someone to design the website. I am happy with the person I chose, and I hope she got a good portfolio piece out of. Because, I am SO going to butcher this Figma while translating it to code.

Nice Figma
the calm before the storm

I am trying to match the Figma as best I can. Pretty janky ngl. At least the website is responsive! The stars kiiiinda cute.

Nice Figma
Uhm, at least she's responsive!