DEV Blog 36 - Project Updates

A comprehensive overview of my Advanced Gospel Initiatives

This will be a short post this week. A huge amount of milestones have been won—one step at a time. I’d like to thank all of you and the Lord for the way progress has been continuous. This is what every software developer wants. Long stretches of accomplishments, all done in the right order and with the right level of technical competence. It feels good!

General sentiment: Deployment is Coming!

Deployment is the term used for taking software that is running on a laptop and pushing (aka “deploying”) it to a server in the cloud. For the nerds out there, I’m using Vercel (here) for the frontend and Digital Ocean droplets (here) for the backend. The third leg in the stool is MongoDB running on an Atlas Cluster. All three server systems, from three different providers and for three different parts of the technical stack are now up and running.

As I hinted at last week, it had been four months since my last backend deployment. It took a day to make updates to the scripts, but at the end of this process, it is repeatable and working perfectly. One of the most important things I wanted to discover is what is the performance like. All the servers on the West Coast, so I was slightly anxious to see what the user experience would be. I’m glad it is responsive. There is no way it was going to be as fast as my local machine, but it looked like most screens were loading in 1-2 seconds. Of course, that’s just me using the system. When there are hundreds of people simultaneously, I’ll have to watch that carefully. I may need to do some performance tuning and server capacity scaling. This is all a normal process of getting the app out there for customers.

PRMNews App

Here is the middle section to the reimagined Perplexity AI screen, and the final third follows:

There is the final (bottom) section:

What makes the Perplexity AI search system so powerful are all the citations if uses. Nothing is hallucinated…all these are clickable real links that open the source of the context in a new browser tab. This is one of the neat features that I’m introducing. It integrates sophisticated tools Brave Search uses a system similar to Google or Bing. It is not AI based. It’s traditional search. So, within PRMNews app, there are multiple ways to work with, explore, and save commonly used custom searches that are yours. No one else sees your data! I think you’ll like it.

Finally, I did some work on the multi-tenant structure for the database. This would give me the ability to host other ministries version of PRMNews under their branding—all while using a single database. The technical way this is achieved is grounded in my past multi-tenant data warehouse background. It is extremely complex and tedious, but the benefits pay off across multiple ministries. This is all in the future, folks. We need to get the app fully tested and ready prior to leveraging the technology I’ve created. All in due time.

This next week, I will be recording intro videos and tutorials that will discuss the entire system and each of the screens for our test users. As I said last week, this is one of the last steps involved prior to opening up the private beta group. If you are interested in a ground floor opportunity to get involved, please locate the chat message and say hi. I will continue to post updates there.

I’m aiming to onboard private beta the end of June to beginning of July.

Platform Diversification

I have excellent news, Brothers and Sisters! One of the AGI Nerds (Kevin) just grabbed the bull by the horn and solve that unexpected cost surge. We have around 20 Post Rapture Emergency Message websites on that platform. For an example of what one of these looks like, see (here). For those of you that are new to this type of website, it is the Rapture Kit. It is the same as the Rapture Kit on USB drive that many of you have downloaded (here). It is also the exact same static website that we use on the Raspberry Pi project (here). For those of you that did some intercessory prayer for the distress you heard from last week’s post.

Praise report: we are fully deployed! Yay!!

Next week this will go into the Long Term Roadmap where completed projects go to rest for a bit.

RKPi5 (Raspberry Pi Project)

Frustrating. No updates. My fault.

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 continued favor in working PRMNews app. I got affected by the sudden revocation of Fable 5 model from Anthropic, but I’ve been using Open 4.8 and GPT5.5 and done well. Even though the model was withdrawn, progress continues. I’m working on fine tuning things. I found a problem now that the backend is on a remote server. Even though the ETL pipeline errored, it was for a good policy reason. I had to loosen that policy for now. I was so relieved that it was not a bug. The code was doing exactly the right thing. I need grace as I push through more fine tuning.

2. Pray for favor on using fallow (here) to identify things like dead code or unused variables or imports. I spent a full day getting to know this tool. At the end of my analysis, I decided to create some skills that will give me better control over the scope. I have the first 2 issues remediated, but there are many more to go. As the Lord permits, I will continue to carefully work on a handful of the identified issues every week until they are fully optimized. But it can be very tricky. I’m still learning about fallow. Your prayers mean a lot because it can break code if not carefully done.

3. Pray that I can get over the critical voice banging around in my mind. I keep pushing RKPi5 and WAMPi updates so users can begin experimenting with their Raspberry Pi’s. My intent is next week. I’ve asked Kevin to look over my shoulder and I complete the final steps. He’s been a terrific source of encouragement to the team.

4. Also, pray for Joel, who is working hard, doing Dad things and time is always tight for him. But I’m asking that you stop and pray for him. Like the other AGI Nerds, he is an expert in his field and incredibly smart.

5. Finally, pray for George, the original AGI Nerd (before we called it that LOL). He’s taking a break to attend to some family matters. He is an incredible brain and full of wisdom.
   

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

#Maranatha

YBIC,
Scott