interests of an imbecile

oh well

Btw speaking of totals , one of my closest friends and one of the most technically knowledge people I know and the person that came to us with the MVP and idea for totals and is our co creator, finally created a channel after months of asking Check his channel out ,I'm sure you'll find him one of the most intriguing people in the Ethiopian tech community @yewe_detached

decoupling the calendar mode from the language took some time but it was worth it

started playing Shadow of the Colossus on a ps2 emulator i like how there are so many games that use the ps1 style these days so much that this feels like a contemporary game. only thing i had to get used to was the character movement's wooden puppet-like movement, i'm guessing its caused by the reliance on a blend of procedural and traditional animation (which is very impressive)

I spent the better part of April and this month working on the v1.3.2's features, and preparing Totals for the Play Store. It was an unexpectedly challenging road, with a few rejections, appeals/tickets, and false hopes along the way, primarily because of the tricky nature of having SMS permissions and because this was my first attempt at publishing an app. A pretty painful compromise was removing a new feature Yewe had worked on for weeks, just to be safe and avoid the possibility of further rejections On the bright side we'll have more time to polish it and it'll be the headliner for the v1.4 update. (Google never sent us a “you got approved” email after resubmission, and we had kind of decided to try our luck via the org account route. Then we found out we were already live on the Play Store because of a rating notice email, followed by checking the link a million times in incognito mode.)

🎉We’re excited to announce that Totals is now officially live on the Google Play Store alongside the v1.3.2 update. What’s new in v1.3.2: • Added support for CBE Birr, Ahadu Bank, Apollo, Berhan Bank, Hibret Bank. • Multi-category transactions for better tracking of mixed-purpose payments • Improved auto-categorization flows with clearer rule management • SMS reparse support to recover missed transactions more reliably • Category labels in transaction notifications • New SMS parsing patterns Fixes & improvements: • More reliable background SMS handling • Improved duplicate transaction prevention • Cleaner and more accurate SMS parsing • Fixed budget calculations for self-transfers Thank you to everyone who tested, reported bugs, and shared feedback throughout development. You can now download the offical app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=detached.totals

Spent the weekend checking out different games and shows for inspiration Link to the one page design doc

Very good read

wrote my first blog a few weeks ago, shared my experience working on the ground in conflict affected region. inspired by, and submitted to, the first essay competition of the Overdue Progress initiative by @thefrectonz check it out at: https://yewe.work/blog/economics-of-showing-up

Happy to have helped bring this to life.

If anyone here hasn't signed up for the jam yet or couldn't find the link: Game Jam itch page

Hello Everyone! The time to reveal the 6-months-long Reciprocity Game Jam theme has arrived! And the theme is.... *drumrolls please*

qualityslop

got a tiny taste of development heaven working on this submission for the game jam. it was really fun to design and develop. was even more fun to play it and watching other people play it. (don't mind the janky visuals)

Hey, we actually just put up a privacy page, check it out: https://totals.detached.space/privacy