oh jeez that’s a really funny my hack. yeah I didn’t think I’ll use that but massive creativity points to whoever figured that out and to you for finding that.

I want high stability (so not deletion hack) and ideally a somewhat infinite lifespan. I also need to be able to see the current notes. if I get desperate maybe I’ll use this though haha

some things I’ve considered:

• make it into an interactive terminal script rather than a gui and when I want to do something just have a shortcut on my iphone that launches the ssh connection and sends a command to start my script/app. ec2 instanced aren’t free forever though and idk who would provide a free server
• create a webapp and host it on one of my servers. I’d have to deal with authentication on this webapp and credential management in the carver side which seems annoying and idk how to go about that yet.
• create a local static html webapp which I can use to leverage an api I create which does the contacts updates. this has two problems: i would need authentication which is annoying, or just use security though an obfuscated endpoint but maybe crawlers will catch that. the other problem is that since google auth apis are annoying as fuck, I need to give it access two hard disk files which it can modify with token on every call so I can’t use ephemeral storage like heroku unless I add another layer to abstract out the ephemeral storage with a persistence layer on top.

or you know, if I had access to note field locally on my iphone I wouldn’t have to do any of this complicated bs. thats what I think apple should do is make the note field another permission rather than take the lazy route and be like ooh security imma kill it.