Kattrack

I spent a lot of time on the Pebble Developer slack. By this point, I'd developed two watchfaces and showed no signs of slowing. It was fun, fast, and a really neat way to practice programming in a way that could be shown off. Something I hadn't been able to do yet. So, I grew really close with the community there.

I mentioned in the Classic SSE project that a woman named Katherine Berry was the creator of CloudPebble, and got a job at Pebble itself for that accomplishment. Well, as part of that role, she was effectively on the Slack channel 24/7, and became well-known for her sometimes short or snarky comments. At some point, someone made a joke about collecting some of the more popular ones, and serving them randomly.

So I did.

The page is simple - hosted through Github Pages (a really cool service that lets you host simple static pages for free from a repository), it was a single HTML page that simply selected a random quote from a .txt file also hosted in the repo, thanks to some simple javascript. With a little help from the community, we collated quite a few quotes over the next year and continually updated the list to add in new things.

It was quite well received - and in the spirit of Pebble, I went through and developed a watchface that used this service.

You can find Kattrack at https://thomasstoeckert.github.io/kattrack

You can find the whole list at https://thomasstoeckert.github.io/kattrack/katharine.txt