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by laudable-logic
2136 days ago
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For someone with whom I was quite smitten, I had come up with a plan to take screenshots of the most romantic and intimate messages from the onset of our relationship contained in our WhatsApp convo and have them turned into a physical flip-book of sorts as my first Valentine's Day gift to her... Approximately 3 months before VD, our relationship concluded. And then a week before VD, back on... like a house on fire. With nary enough time to execute the original plan, I pivoted the idea somewhat. I opted to export the 'best' few weeks from the WhatsApp convo, then proceeded to stand up a quick MVC site with the exported data presented as if it were a messaging app, complete with the very same images we each used for avatars at that time. Hosted the site off my lappy, and when she arrived for VD dinner, a link was sent to her phone, seemingly out of nowhere. She clicked it, and was greeted with this view, and the title "Budding Love" pinned as a header while she scrolled, smiled, and swelled with tears... She was a techie chick, but didn't know how to code. She ended up confessing the best part was when I took her through and explained the purpose of all the code that I wrote for this gift I made. She even called me out for committing a sin or two (i.e. code dupe, embedded-SQL-in-C#, etc.) that I would often bitch to her about seeing at work :) |
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