RunPee Weekly Newsletter 16th edition (July 1st, 2020)

I’ve lost track of how many posts we’ve written here at RunPee.com about movie release dates changing. Let’s face it: all movie release dates are TBD. I’ll believe it when I’m sitting in a theater, pad and pen in hand, ready to take notes for Peetimes again..

Turning pandemic into opportunity – how two men gamed the system to create a movie that reached #1 at the box office
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Top 5 Movie Kids Who Are Smarter Than Adults
With Artemis Fowl released on Disney + instead of in theaters, we thought it would be a good time to look anew at the phenomenon of super smart kids who outwit evil/dumb adults as a main plot point. Read more.

The validity of movie rating systems
The blog FiveThirtyEight recently exposed how Fandango’s movie ratings are skewed compared to everyone else’s ratings. Read more.

Weekly progress diary on RunPee:NX
We are rebuilding the RunPee app from scratch using Google Flutter. Here’s a brief report on our weekly progress:

Along with rebuilding the RunPee app we’ve redesigned the RunPee logo. Admittedly the change is subtle. We only replaced the font with a Google font: Poller One. If you look closely the flat part of the “e” slopes slightly up to the right. In the previous font it was flat.

The coding is coming along at a steady pace. The most important feature I added this week was the Timer notifications. That means work on the Timer is almost completely wrapped up. 🙂