DEV Blog 35 - Project Updates

A comprehensive overview of my Advanced Gospel Initiatives

I had a very short week due to my wife and I taking two days away. Consequently, my time-on-keyboard was just a few days since my last update. The good news is we could hear the Pacific Ocean from our room … it was relaxing.

What you see above is the public facing website for PRMNews app. I’m working on content with screenshots and enough discussion about what the app does to inform people and hopefully encourage them to join the waitlist. The next goal is to finish the screens by Friday and make the sign-up form active. All the screenshots are done. I made the decision to show both the light and dark mode versions.

General sentiment: Sobering $$$

Platform Diversification

So, we have an unexpected wrinkle in our platform deployments. One of the providers is charging us at an unsustainable rate. We don’t have enough funding to carry that kind of cost. Don’t get me wrong, the configuration that we did is right on. We have international reach with a caching layer, making the site performant for users that want to view the side for importantly download a Rapture Kit. Although we may need to pull back some of the more expensive sites (there are 77 so far) we need to rebalance the spend in a way that maximizes the Gospel reach. If the rapture happened next week or next billing period, we’d wish we had those back—just because we expect massive interest when they are desperately looking for the Post Rapture Emergency Message content:

• What just happened

• How did we know it was going to happen

• What to do now

I don’t have an immediate answer for this, but as you know I’ve been praying for many years about being able to stand-up these types of helps. Time for all of us to rally around this great cause! Thank you in advance for your prayers!

RKPi5 (Raspberry Pi Project)

Next week. I need to update the downloadable file and redo some documentation.

PRMNews App

I am VERY thrilled to announce that a long-sought-after stretch goal began to take shape. Although it is not completed yet, it is working! What am I talking about? It’s the Workbench Sandbox screen!

Understanding that a curated news feed (a.k.a. the ‘standard news feed’) serves the general Watchman Community, I dreamed of offering a way for YOU to enter custom news inquiries by using a mini ETL Pipeline!

The screenshot below shows the query mechanisms that are used. If you look closely, you can see the Category=’Technology’, SubCategory=’AI Models’, and Keyword=’(Anthropic AND Oceanus)’. These queries can be saved and then run on-demand as you need the information.

The second half of the screen below shows that one article was found matching the keyword query from above.

Clicking on the article shows the screen below, where you can read the story detail. Note that because this private sandbox ETL Pipeline does not go through the normal federated pipe, we bypass a lot of enrichment. Plus, these articles cannot be searched in the top right corner, and the fly-out filter panel does not operate on your saved queries. But it does make it super easy to keep you informed on your special areas of interest.

With the Workbench Sandbox feature, I believe the PRMNews app is feature complete from a private access point-of-view. What this means is that no new development will be done until the base app is fully working, tested, and stable. This is a normal part of the software development life-cycle (SDLC). What happens when good ideas are proposed by the community? They are put on a backlog and remembered for future development.

Long Term Roadmap

[IN PRODUCTION] Rapture Kit 3.1

[IN PRODUCTION] Keychain Rapture Kit

Go to Keychain Rapture Kit (here)
Go to Facebook (here)

[IN PRODUCTION] Book 6 - The Dax Hunter Files - A Creed of Saints

Gary’s personal website (here)
Go to Barnes and Nobles (here)
Go to Amazon (here)

Bible Bench [ON HOLD]

Bible on Blockchain [ON HOLD]

Web 3.0 Projects [WAITING BOARD OF DIRECTOR APPROVAL]

My prayer requests:

1. Please pray for our surpassing cost structure with post rapture emergency message websites. This is a conundrum!

2. Praise report: that we have so many people (in Chat) willing to help with testing. This is a wonderful development! I was hoping for 8-10 folks, but at last count I think we’re over 30 so far. Incredible! Thank You Lord!!

3. Final push for the Raspberry Pi platforms (RKPi5 and WAMPi). We have the release candidate operating system completed. I think the only thing remaining is an update to the RKPi5 website (here). We are trying to wrap-up these two projects once we get it into production. Also note: we will be updating the Rapture Kit (here) by creating an extension pack that will let folks easily update/insert the scripts or get the operating system image. Once I get those items certified, I’ll create this downloadable file (free) and update the rapturekit.org website.

4. Praise that my interview with J.B. Hixson was so informative. Also, I’m interviewing with Mary Danielson of the Q90FM Radio Channel (here) on YouTube. We’re talking about aliens and how we should process all that is going on. I have a lot of respect for Mary, she’s one of the most skilled interviewers I’ve encountered. Pray for favor!
   

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

#Maranatha

YBIC,
Scott