
About this time last year my free hosted ran into some SSL issues. I ended up making my own workflow to make my own SSL certificate, with a limitation that they would only be valid for 3 months. This worked ok, but every time I would do this I would have to update a…

I am coming in late in updating this app to conform to the new targetSDKversion requirements, but better late than never. Again, like I did with the Australian Daily Prayer app, I ran this code through AI and it make a nice changes in running a little more efficiently. It made me an abstracted…

The time had come for this app to be updated to the next SDK version. In doing this, I also set out to improve the code using AI, by asking it how things could be improved and how to remove depreciated code. In general, AI was helpful, it did get a few things wrong,…

During the week of the 12th of May, my SSL certificate expired as my hoster was unable to automatically renew it. This was due to a new limitation intdocuced Let’s Encrypt, which now only offers 200 new certs a week. This turned into requesting a new SSL cert a bit of a lottery. The…

It had been four years since I have last touched this app, and since then it got pulled from the Play Store for being too old and not having the right policy checks. Since leaning on ChatGPT went well for me recently, I turned to getting this app back up to date. It now…

Most nights with my boys we use a book for a devotion with some activates. The last book we used came with the Who Will Be King booklet. In that I noticed that they had updated the colours of the Gospel presentation, along with their website. Yesterday, while on the mend from a cold,…

The time had come again for my apps to get updated to the latest minimal standard (targetSDK 34). While I was updating these libraries, I found an Australian Anglican Catechism called What We Believe (pdf). This seems to have been publish in 1985 and was brought about due to something passed in general synod…

For my birthday I got a Fitbit Sense at a very good price as the Sense 2 had just come out. The default watch face that comes with the Sense is called Spectrum which shows your steps, heart rate and sleep score. As your stats increase so does the graph. The issue I had…

In preparing to be ordained, one of the tasks I need to do is to follow the Australian Anglican morning and evening prayers and lectionary for 30 days and reflect on this experience. In doing this, it means I have been using my app every day, and what has annoyed me during this process…

For the last two weeks, all my ampers sites have been down, along with the Australian Daily Prayer app. This was caused at my hosters end, where they had two major server failures and then they had to manually restore everyone’s account. I don’t pay for hosting, so on one level, I am grateful…