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The database is done

Three years it took. Not full-time work, admittedly, but it’s been the main thrust of my professional work for those three years. Of course, it got re-designed in the middle, which never helps. The original design was actually working in limited use, but was far too complex for FileMaker to handle with any kind of speed. And — crucially — it would not have migrated well to a PostgreSQL or other database in iOS.…

  

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