This Business and Moment...

You know when you're a contractor and you do a role because it pays you, but you're really way over qualified for it and your manager is a useless idiot? Yea. Work is annoying right now but it's still paying so I need to STFU and show up and deliver and go home.

In other news... SKYNET Cheezus is LEARNING! We trained the model on 10 cheeses. Why 10? Because that took 8000 images scraped from the interwebs. I figured we'd have to do the rest on the fly. This cheese below, Mont D'or, wasn't one of those cheeses. Yet, we like it so have probably taken about 30 pics of it, which has led to the beautiful moment where your app can recognise a cheese it didn't used to know.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2583969955222100

Sadly, this has made my evening.
 
Man Apple are killing me here.

Positive: New release is on Android and live. Not a beta anymore so need to download the new version. Accounts all still the same but you can't simply update the old app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.cheezusapp.cheezus

But it's live. Real release. Added fix for uploading from gallery, not just a camera pic, added a small ad banner on home page, and the drink with pairing list. Now to add a lot more pairings... need to do a lot on that side.

Apple though rejected the app as it requires you to login/ create an account and they say you should be able to use the app without an account and only make people get an account if they want to interact in a way that requires one; such as, favouriting a cheese etc. The problem is that most of our features make things shown for users based on where they are based, or based on cheese preferences, so it's key to be logged in. All coming features are the same too. We have badges coming to profiles etc. and none of it will work. I've appealed to Apple and now I have to wait for their response. Hopefully it will be OK, I don't fancy having the whole user journey rewritten for iOS as it would make it disjointed too.

In the meantime I've kicked off a bit of work on redesigning the admin panel where all the information is for the app.

This is what it looks like now:

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and this is how I would like it...

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So lets get cracking on these things while I wait for Apple ****!
 
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mrbell1984 said:
Why? If I have a cheese from a different country I should be able to identify it right without having to create a login?
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It logs it against your cheeses in your profile though. That would count as an account based feature. They want people just to be able to search for cheeses without logging in or signing up, which is fair, but a lot of details on cheeses (the pairings and external links) are tailored for you, so we have to change all of the way this works as well.
They didn't budge, and I'm not fighting, it'll take more time to argue than it will to make some changes.
 
Oh yes, they're a good fun lot to deal with :D Hence why I was like, look, let's just change it. We can make it work in the way we want but satisfying their requirements and it shouldn't be too bad. So, here's hoping it won't take long.

On the flip side, did a redesign on the VolAir app, added new features, removed others, complete overhaul to brand. Much prefer it, looks modern! Also called all the partners to make sure they're still on board and they are, so as soon as v2.0 Cheezus is out, this is going on while I work on building partners with Cheezus. #spinningplates

 
Thanks man, really appreciate those! I was aware of the top one, it's being sorted at the moment. I didn't know the other ones. Mind, I had a funny one with the menu bar first time I took a pic and then after that I closed and reopened the app and it was OK. But am looking at that at the moment. Seems iPhone specific.

Also an error on the my cheeses page, but that's being sorted now. Should be done today or tomorrow. Hopefully now we can power through some updates and make it better until it's skynet :D
 
mrbell1984 said:
Invoice in the post. PS I decided to try break your database. I uploaded a photo of a cup and called it a cup cheese. :p I then tried to take another photo of the said cup but it come up as stilton. pmsl.
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haha don't worry, those were rejected before they hit the model :D

I have in this next version, or maybe the one after as I've stacked this next major version heavily but anyway, coming up will be a feature so it works out first if it's cheese or not, if it's a cup or a person or flowers, it says "This appears to be a cup, not cheese, take a picture of cheese instead!" but that's more machine learning (can actually use googles image library for this and just pay a small amount per call, but still a fairly sizable feature) but think it's required because as we've seen... people :D haha some dude took a pic of their face and corrected it with their name. OK mate.
 
haha they don't stay, so they come in like this (I was taking pics, I had my only trip out of the house allowed, so naturally I bought loads of cheese and beer): WojJr0J.png

Then I check the corrected name, or if it's not corrected as it's a pic of what it is, just simply mark it ready for training or delete. If any more great ones come in I'll get them up though.
 
Hahaha I've had this, wife took on a job of someone else with this horrible and useless excel that had been changed by so many people it just didn't work as they'd each changed different things and added stuff it made no sense. I changed it with her and sold it as her own work. :P
 
Cheezus updated again to stop the plugin error so all good now. Bonus. I've been busy training the model on certain cheeses as well.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=211382506859257

Fun while I am overloaded with work in the day. Really pleased with the machine learning though, it's great to see it working. Albeit with cheeses I've trained it on, but it'll get there with use and more pics!


Actually have a sore throat a bit of a cough so no doubt that's me done for! My worry is, who will take over my world domination?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=206097157324365
 
Steedie said:
Got told my contract will be extended yesterday, which is a huge relief in the current climate,

Was dreading looking for a new contract while the lockdown is in place
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I have until the end of the year but we're in a huge reorg and so I keep thinking each 1:1 I'm going to get my notice. Good job on the extension! Always a huge relief, especially as you say at this time.

I'm about to kick off the development on the VolAir app work. I have a plan and sticking to it. I think people will be climbing the walls to get away once this is all over, so want to capitalise on that.
Cheezus all good. Have about 500 users at the moment. Will do more and push more when people can get out a bit and eat more cheese :D
 
My agency is serious ******* me off at the moment. I still havent been paid for last month and it's the 15th. I get we had bank holiday but I had all my scheduled DDs coming out on 15th, which has left me calling people back and forth to cover the account. **** I should not have to do and what's more, no one even mentioned it either.
 
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