Blog
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Bird App hits the web
The original Daily Bird app was architected with no back end: each instance of the app would call Wikipedia and Wikidata on its own and save that data locally on the device. I did that because I didn’t want to set up a bunch of infrastructure or sign up with some SaaS option that might be gone in a year. It never really made sense if I wanted to expand things to the web or Android, where it would be extremely helpful to be able to point to a single source of [bird] truth.
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Daily Bird: a bird a day
I’ve always liked the Wikipedia widgets for seeing featured articles, so I made an app to do that for birds. Daily Bird pulls data from public sources and displays various birds of the day, filterable by endemic NZ birds or only pigeons.