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// arbor cogitatus
> Launched the app on both app stores. As I was doing the finishing touches I think I came up with a slightly better name for the app. Luuranko.RTG for finnish, and maybe Skeleton.RTG for english version? I'll think about the rebranding thing further if and when I do the next application.
> Getting to this point took bit longer than anticipated, but I am fairly pleased that I've gotten things sorted out to the point where I can't do much of anything but wait..
> Google Play Console's UX felt rather confusing, and Apple's dev-pipeline has it's own weird things going on.
> This is a rant.
> I am not motivated to deal with the bureaucracy of app store release.
> It's rather daunting, and I am at the present moment, feeling quite unmotivated to deal with that hurdle right now.
> the app is feature ready, and I have fixed the bugs that I found, but man, dealing with the bureaucracy feels like such a bothersome chore right now in summer. Like it's not even difficult (probably) it's just having to deal with the testing process, google's adsense integration and the app store submission process and the whole account management in regards to all that.
> A simple solution for a simple problem. How do I make it so that 25 people per classroom don't have to waste hours upon hours making flashcards, that are not convenient or always with you? A simple problem and simple solution. That's where the questions and the dive into the rabbit hole began.
> Initially there was a simple solution. A simple WordPress site, with a reasonably simple plugin for shuffling flashcards.
> Ultimately, I was not satisfied with the wordpress site. The user-experience was lacking and in my hybris I was sure I could do better.
> It was evident that a mobile application was warranted. That was the entire point of the project. To have your flashcards with you whenever you have time to study or unexpected downtime. Problem was that iOS and Android had different requirements, yet it would have been quite horrible waste to develop the same program twice. Thankfully, that too was a solved problem, thoughN I do admit I spent a few days comparing .net MAUI and Flutter. And only thing I can say, jesus christ Microsoft get your shit together.
> In the spirit of "all you need is html-ism".
> I thought it fitting to follow the footsteps of the venerable cool-cats that made the site for Space Jam. First came into being in 1996, it still stands. (Mostly, it did go down once or twice, but atleast it has longer uptime record than GitHub lol.)
> Hence, the goal was to make this site entirely on HTML and CSS. KISS - keep it simple, stupid.
> My slight regret is that I have not managed to further optimize the site, the current total site size is 26KB as of 25052026, while the user-available space on a TCP packet is 14KB. There are, mayhaps, a few stones left unturned.
> Paying someone else to host a site when I have the necessary hardware just lying around seems like unacceptable waste of available resources.
> Setting up the hardware took perhaps half a day, this was done previously when I had ample free time. Software side was more of a challenge. Machine spirit configurations in regards to virtualization, virtual server, while not completely new, wasn't exactly something I have done often.
> The DNS propagation rite took forty minutes.
> TLS certificate renewal is automated now. Before it was automated it was a source of considerable anxiety. Praise be to certbot and the machine spirit that tends it. All update rituals should be automated as of now.
> Though; I fully admit that I made a silly mistake by assuming that surely TLS certs could be pushed through https.
> A one-unit operation means there is no one to review your pull requests except your future self, who will be confused and slightly disappointed. I leave detailed commit messages to soften this disappointment.
> The advantage is zero meetings. The disadvantage is also zero meetings — there is no one to stop you from making a structural decision at midnight that you will regret before noon.
> Specifics are to follow. Yet here too remains certain questions about unknown unknowns, especially in regards to the realm of the administratorum.
> Writing logs/posts is akin to setting one's own thoughts and mediations in order. The relatively slowness of writing itself acts as a sieve of sorts.
> A form of meditation in a sense. Forcing oneself to slow down, look back the path traversed and think a little bit.
> It is probable that the day will come when I will forego updating this site. I believe that I will be better enticed to write upon here than to a notebook, for there is a technical challenge here. Machine spirits to appease, cogitator units to maintain, sacred update rituals to attend to, foul scrapcode to expunge.
Vox cast are dispatched as the machine spirit permits — usually within seven rotations of the planet.