App-lied Theory

Just a little finishing touch on the backend before pushing to frontend devs… who am I kidding, I AM the frontend.

There. The moment you click ‘Publish’ on the text-filled Java-esque screen, your holo-monitor flashes with an end-user display, the kind you see when people click on a Squarespace page that’s been tinkered on for forty hours too long. Hey, you’re proud of it, though. You swipe through some options, customizing your UI to match the night glow of your home office lighting: dark mode - on, slider input values - on, enable comprehensive search - that one is definitely gonna be selected on. Taking the app file and uploading it to your augmented reality chip in your body, the screen naturally flicks on in front of you like a laser display a few feet from your face. You gaze at the myriad of options and idle animation of the UI, with a calm message saying ‘Please select target’, happy at your work. You’ve done it. Or so you think. You’ve gotta find someone to test this out on, just to know if you actually succeed.

Glancing at the time — 01:36 — there’s no way you’ll call up any of your friends to guinea pig for you, no matter how willing they are to partake in your experiments, cooking or otherwise. Do you wait til morning, or is your patience really not that long anymore? More than that, are you willing to be the test subject for your own potentially reality-altering project? It is just an app, after all. What could go wrong?