Day 9 of 84

Time is flying by.  It seems like just yesterday that I had the idea to put notecards of my daily accomplishments on the wall, however, my wall suddenly has a whole bunch of note cards.  Nine fucking days...gone.  I didn't the entire prototype in about 11 days, and its taken almost as long to work out some bugs and implement a non-google play auto update feature.  In my defense...that feature turned out to be a lot of work.  Its really funny how a feature can seem so simple at first;  I thought it was about a days work.

Any time you think "hey all I have to do is just do this thing in the app, this thing in the webservice, learn how to implement my own hmac-based message authentication system, and then write some command line tools..." you're an idiot.  Because apparently getting a decent signature is not simply a matter of smashing everything together through md5.

I did lose about two and a half days to drunken karaoke shenanigans.  Worth it.  I didn't want to spend so much time goofing off but I'm going to go insane otherwise.  So anyway, here is the board:

 

The card at the bottom says "release candidate" in red because, if we don't find any more bugs, we are ready to ship to our first beta tester.  I have been focusing on the code too much lately to really think about the bigger picture, but I'm pretty sure getting someone to use this software for real was a huge deal.  I hope to start feeling proud of myself any second now.

 Now, though, hopefully, I can take a break and handle some issues that have been backing up in my personal life.  Like getting a plan ticket to come east in Feb.  Have I mentioned that?  Yeah the poconos trip is like next weekend or something,  So I should get on that.  I also need to try and get people to hang out in philly, and also arrange to view a bunch of apartments in new york while I'm east.  I also have to get my bicycle tire fixed, and the Falco still isn't running, and I'm behind on the whole cycling-to-bellevue goal, and my apartment has become a filthy mess, and I need to start selling shit on craigslist--including a 14,000 BTU air condition and a giant tv--and ...shit I need get all of my tax stuff to the accountant, and I was supposed to start lifting and drinking smoothies again.  And I need to do the dishes.  So, maybe I can make a dent in all that tomorrow.