2021-06-26 14:44:32 +00:00
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title: "christine.website is now on the Microsoft Store"
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date: 2021-06-26
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author: sephiraloveboo
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tags:
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- release
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- Windows11
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This website has been a progressive web app [for a long
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2022-05-26 17:44:47 +00:00
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time](https://xeiaso.net/blog/progressive-webapp-conversion-2019-01-26).
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2021-06-26 14:44:32 +00:00
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This means that you can install my blog to your phone as if it was a normal app
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via the share menu in Safari on iOS or via other native prompts on other
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browsers. However, this is not enough. In the constant pursuit of advancement I
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have found a way to make this an even more seamless user experience. I have
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released this website on the Microsoft store and you can download it
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[here](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/christinewebsite/9nn7zx20jl85?activetab=pivot:overviewtab).
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> Science isn't about *why* - it's about *why not*. *Why* is so much of our
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> science dangerous? Why not *marry* safe science if you love it so much? In
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> fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on
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> the way out, because *you are fired!* Not you, test subject. You're doing
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> fine.
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- Cave Johnson, Portal 2
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This will allow me to experiment with push notifications in the future. People
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have asked for a way to be notified of new posts to my blog and I want to
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experiment with push notifications using service workers. It may be a while
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until I end up getting to a point where I can do that, but I want to start
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laying the ground work for fully native integration on your machines.
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As for why I'm doing this, that's a good question. Microsoft said that Windows
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11 was an open platform, and if it really is an open platform then they'll allow
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anyone to publish things to their store. I was able to get my existing website
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to be published as an app and I will probably use that model going forward with
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other projects in the future. I've also started the process of getting [Mara:
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Sh0rk of Justice](https://xe.github.io/mara-sh0rk-of-justice/) published in a
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similar way.
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I have also been prototyping an Android app that is currently in review on the
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Google Play store, but if you want to test drive it now, you can download the
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APK
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[here](https://cdn.christine.website/file/christine-static/apk/christine.website-1.0.3.1-1.apk).
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It is currently just a webview pointing to my website and that's all it really
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needs to be. The rest of the magic will happen in the background after you
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explicitly opt-in to push notifications or whatever once I figure out how to do
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that with a server written in Rust. I may have to cave and write the push
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notification server pusher part in Node or something, I don't really know for
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sure yet.
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I am working on making the code for the Android app open source and will post it
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[here](https://github.com/Xe/xesite_android) once I figure out all of the files
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I need to gitignore properly.
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Until then, enjoy a taste of the future! I will look into making this work on
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iOS and macOS, but those require a few more steps that are really annoying due
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to my Apple developer account being in an odd state due to me being an ex-pat.
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Apparently they won't let you use a Canadian address to pay for things with a US
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account. Annoying.
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