Cool local school project: Charlotte Elementary School in Charlotte Maine wants to hear from you. They are trying to get postcards from all states and 20 countries. If you can spare a few minutes and a dollar & send them a card that would be cool.
Mail it to:
Students,
Charlotte ElementarySchool
1006 Ayers Junction Road
Charlotte Maine USA 04666.
Thank you (English), Merci (French), Nkomu ngofu (Tsonga of South Africa). Please send them a postcard with a few sentences about your home state or country.
Saw this pitch by Jayna in the Calais Advertiser. What fun!
Comedian Arthur Smith outlines an eight-step programme to beat #melancholy in issue 94 of Idler magazine. Step 3 resonates well with us #FountainPen people:
“Think of a good friend you haven’t seen for a while and send them a postcard. Yes, a proper #postcard with a nice picture on one side and a fond message, an address and a stamp on the other. Treat your friend to a semicolon within the text. As you post it, imagine your pal receiving it, their pleased face, that smile you’ve seen so often.”
I’ve spent some time over the last day breaking out the #postcard backend for my #sharedPhotography app, in anticipation of actually finishing it. I can’t enable international printing until I switch to lob.com, and I can’t switch to Lob until I reconfigure the layout mechanism to accept a configuration for fulfillment.
The real fun will be when I bring this back into #swiftui to rebuild on device real time preview.
Client-side reimplementation to use the new fonts is done, and the server has been updated to render these correctly. One minor bug where the selected font is forgotten if you preview and then go back to edit, but other than that this is ready to go.
Side note: I really, really want to get back to the #letterSet app, but I promised myself I’d finish this one first.
The thing about testing an app and API with transactional print mail integration is that every so often you accidentally send yourself a real #postcard with test data. I have some hilarious ones heading my way this week… better me than you?
Any iOS developer who has opened Photos in the simulator should recognize this photo, and if they ever opened Address Book they should recognize the From address as well. In testing the new postcard print provider, I accidentally sent a real postcard, so now I have this memorialized in print.
An upcoming feature in my app is using AppClips for actually interesting things. Via a custom url experience, I can have a QR code that loads a web url on Android, and an AppClip on iOS. Payment is handled by the original sender, so no need for cross-platform payments.