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Hangout Planner - fighting cognitive atrophy and full process of making app
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Hangout Planner - fighting cognitive atrophy and full process of making app

DEV Community·Meat Boy·about 1 month ago
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In the rising era of artificial intelligence and information processing speeding up everywhere, I needed to slow down to force myself to deliberately practice and think. I wonder if cognitive skill atrophy will be a big thing or just a minor issue long term that can be justified by performance gains. To prevent atrophy I decided to go with yet another project, like I did many times in the past. This time I started a micro app for planning common time for hanging out with friends. There are existing projects both commercial and free but often bloated or limited with features and I wanted something simpler. No login, no registration. Just create an event, add time slots and send it to friends so they can vote. That's all. The technology I chose is half known to me and half new. For the client side I chose React. I work with React and React Native daily. For the backend I decided to go with Golang. I used to work with Golang for around two years in the past. Since then I haven't touched it.…

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