
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…

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…

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…

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…

About two or three weeks ago my website SSL certificate expired, which caused a “Not secure” warning to be displayed on all my sites and it also broke the Australian Daily Prayer app. It tuned out that my free hosters had an issue with their LetsEncrypt process, so I tried a few things to…

For a little while, the Australian Daily Prayer app wouldn’t update the service content if you changed the date. The card at the top would display the right day and saint/festival, but the morning and evening tabs would still be displaying the current date. This bug turned out to be a relativity simple fix…

Since around mid December, my web hoster has been transferring their free sites from cPanel to DirectAdmin. In this process, it meant that the Australian Daily Prayer website, and by extension the app as well, stopped working. Once I was able to log back in there was some subdomain permission settings and SSL certs…

It seems that in my last update to get everything up to API 29, it caused an issue with the Australian Daily Prayer app. It turns out that from Android 9, by default http calls are blocked to encourage everyone to switch to https. Now, after I released the previous update my Pixel 2 stopped…