Flashback

Memory-hacking flash cards for vocabulary learning

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September 10, 2019 Full logging support

I guess this would be a "technical" benchmark. I had minimal logging set up before, but this last week, to help track down some bugs, I finally bit the bullet and configured full logging for bot the frontend and backend of the project. I'm still using Loggly, as I was before, for all application logging, but I have now also configured Sentry.io for alerting of high-priority tickets. This helped me solve the bugs I was aiming for, and uncovered a few new issues I wasn't aware of.

The only user-visible change is that now some of the templates which were previously failing (and thus being skipped) are now working.

Baby steps :)

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August 7, 2019 Functional demo

A functional (but very minimal) demo is now available at https://app.flashbacksrs.com

Anyone with a browser can log in and begin playing with the pre-defined flash cards for Dutch or Spanish.

This is still not a proper MVP, as the content is not especially useful. But it's good enough to use in a demo, for instance at a meetup or lightning talk.

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Scratching my own itch. I've used several language apps for my own language study, and found them all lacking in different ways. This it my attempt at overcoming a number of problems.