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 Currently my babe is resting on my lap, milk drunk. That's how I got the inspiration to build the app in the first place. My partner is an ER nurse and sleeps during the day, so usually my afternoons are quiet. I would stare at my guitar peeking behind an oversized blue papasan cushion slouching in its small frame, beckoning me to practice. 

 There are about 5 tracks my mind wants to go off on when I hit this mental crossroads of context. Do I bring a backstory into it? Or just get to the fukin point? Latter, for now. I got bored. I wanted to play. I couldn't. Wondered "how am I supposed to get better if I don't practice?". Then I kept sitting until the day went on per usual. 

 The opportunity struck one day where the timing was just right for me to play a little bit of what I use to know. I pulled up the chords for "Sister Golden Hair" and found that I needed to continuously scroll up to see what the fingering chart was for the chord as I had forgotten. This is how I started to learn in the first place, scrolling up and down trying to memorize things as I played a song. It sounds weird to me to do that. I'd rather just have it all memorized first before I get into playing the song.

 How do I best remember things? Flashcards. Practice. Anything like that online? Not like what I was thinking about. So I asked ChatGPT "How do I create something like this?". ChatGPT is extremely encouraging. I don't know how often you have used AI, and there are rightfully strong opinions against it, but it's funny the impact that just a few encouraging words from a device could lead me down the rabbit hole to my next exciting little dream. 

 Yes, they're literally just chord flashcards.... but it's free. And it has been a lot of work. A lot of learning curves. Everybody I know has downloaded an app, but nobody has experienced the throws of app development. So, along the way in this self taught app development path, I learned I needed a website. Here we are. 

 I would like for my experience to help or entertain. We'll see. For now, it's time to start airing all this shit to the void. Hi, void!  

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