RunPee Weekly Newsletter – April 29th, 2020

“Hey, so what’s the plan?”

Does that bring back fond memories of everyone’s favorite Zombie comedy? If so, you have to watch this short clip by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

CoVid-19 News: Astronauts Come Home to Surreal New World
Our space men and woman rotating home right now report they’re returning to a world straight out of a dystopian science fiction movie. Read more.

Top Astronaut Movies to Rewatch Right Now
While you’re in quarantine, you may as well honor our real life astronauts by giving these films a rewatch! Read more.

New Hunger Games Prequel Movie Announced
The new prequel is titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. While Suzanne Collins is still writing the novel, the movie rights are already picked up. The odds were ever in favor of that. Can you guess when in Panem’s turbulent past the story takes place?  Read more.

How I Came To Love Guardians Of The Galaxy
Rob Williams is the newest RunPeep, contributing Peetimes for movies from across the pond in the UK. In this post he relates how some movies, for whatever reason, don’t grab us upon first viewing, but later become favorites.  Read more.

RunPee app update using Google Flutter
We are rebuilding the RunPee app from scratch using a new framework from Google named Flutter. This is a new programming language for us so we’re taking our time to learn and build a solid foundation so that the RunPee app will have a long and successful life.

Currently, I’m working on rebuilding the RunPee Admin app — that we use for inputting new movies and Peetimes into the database. That is coming along well and next week we should begin the exciting work of creating the RunPee app itself.

It’s too early to tell when the new version (code name: RunPee:NX) will be available. My goal is to have it live by November, but if things go smoothly it could be sooner. If you have an Android phone and would like to be a beta tester for us then email me ([email protected]) and I’ll add you to the list.

I’ll begin a developer journal soon in case your interested in keeping up with the progress.