Still Not Cool Enough for the Store (#6)

 

🎯 The Trigger – “Might As Well” Syndrome

After the big UI overhaul went smoother than expected, I was at peace again within a week.
And then… the fatal thought: “While I’m at it…”

The kind of thought that makes you go out to buy a compact car and come home with a Mercedes.
That one “might as well” cost me another week.

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🥏 While I’m At It… Why Not Driver Ball Flight Arrows?

Since I was already making the detailed scorecard sleek,
I thought, “Wouldn’t it be more intuitive if driver ball flights were shown as arrows? You could see the pattern at a glance!”

This is how my lit-major brain works. Once I latch onto an idea, I can’t let it go.

I asked GPT to make me some arrows.

Nope—wrong direction. ^^
So I opened PowerPoint and made my own PNG arrows.

In my head, the logic was simple:

• For all other columns, show the value as entered.
• For the “Driver” column, replace the value with the corresponding arrow image.

So why didn’t it work?

GPT: “It might be a path issue.”

What I saw: an endless field of empty boxes.

The empty square boxes that I had to suffer through for 5 days

🌀 PNG → Base64 → Inline SVG (Five Days Gone)

GPT said the problem was in loading the image into the HTML table.
The data was there, but the image just wouldn’t show.
According to GPT, Base64 encoding would definitely fix it. Guaranteed.

If it had worked there, it wouldn’t have taken five days.

I pestered GPT at every free moment: “Why isn’t it working yet?”
Got fed up with GPT’s “definitely” and started tag-teaming it with Gemini.

I’d show Gemini the same error codes, then run back to GPT: “Gemini says you’re wrong.”
Pure AI drama.

Gemini’s verdict: “Yes, SVG code is correct, but… you just slapped an SVG extension on a PNG. Doesn’t work that way. Make a real one. ^^”

Fine. Message received.

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🖌 Drawing the SVG by Hand

My lazy PNG-to-SVG trick had failed (thanks, Gemini).
By now, just hearing “Base64” gave me PTSD.

I swore if GPT suggested Base64 one more time, I’d start swearing again.
Three straight days of “just Base64 it” will do that to you.

So I decided to write the SVG vector code directly into my file.

Since I refuse to open Photoshop unless I’m paid,
I hunted down a free online SVG tool and drew the arrows myself—
one stroke at a time, with slightly rounded corners, no one would ever notice but me.

Finally, I dropped the SVG code straight into the HTML.

And somehow… it worked. 🎯

The rounded arrows I made with sgvviewer.dev

Result: Cute, rounded arrows showing my driver ball flights in the detailed scorecard.
Was it worth a week of my life? Debatable.

My final scorecard. Look at the arrows!

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💡 Finally Done! Now I Just Have to Upload… Right? (Death Flag)