A Quick Postcard From Hangzhou
Week 44 is a short check-in from a borrowed desk overlooking West Lake. I kept the weekly promise, but the laptop stayed in the bag aside from making sure the Week 43 builds kept publishing and that tester feedback still lands in the inbox. The alpha release notes remain unchanged, shokken.rsvp keeps pointing people to the right install links, and the Play Console graphs look exactly like they did before I boarded the plane. Travel time shifted from red-eye commutes to sightseeing, and I chose to let the code rest along with me.
What does it mean in English?
Nothing moved in the app this week. I’m still traveling, still answering tester emails when they pop up, and still publishing these Saturday updates so nobody wonders if the project went dark. Think of this as the “out of office” banner on the dev blog: Shokken is fine, the build from two weeks ago is the latest, and I’m staying present with family before ramping back into the roadmap.
Nerdy Details (or the absence thereof)
No commits, no new crash reports, and no silent schema migrations. The CI pipeline keeps pushing fresh screenshots to the marketing folder because it’s automated, and the monitoring dashboard stayed green without intervention. I skimmed the backlog on my phone and flagged a couple of tester notes about onboarding clarity to tackle once I’m stationary, but there’s nothing worth diagramming or benchmarking right now. The most technical task this week was making sure the VPN stayed up so I could confirm the Play Store listing still shows the correct build number.
Next Week
I’ll still be on the road, so expectations stay low: keep reading tester submissions, jot down priorities for the onboarding fixes, and prep a clean desk for when I get back to California. If travel wraps earlier than planned I’ll jump back into Kotlin refactors and the host experience polish, but for now the plan is “enjoy Hangzhou, keep the lights on, and resume shipping as soon as I land.”