Creativity, curiosity, and code
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I made a big, long, technical post a short time back about building a 1-person "social network" app for "micro-journaling". This is a short post explaining what it is without all the technical details.
I have pretty consistently used TickTick for years now. It's really good. But no one talks about it!
I short recommendation post for some sustainable, non-plastic kitchen items. These seem really good. I recommend!
Yes, despite being an AI doom-speaker, I tried using a app-builder to make a simple, social-media-like, private, journalling web app. This post explains what I did and why, and outlines the development process I took, including the point at which I decided the AI wasn't up to it and started making it manually.
Like "slop" text, images and videos, the ability to create apps and websites is fascinating. But I don't believe it's ultimately good for the creators or for the users.
Playtiles is a new, indie product that lets you play Gameboy-emulated games on your mobile device. It’s a little, credit-card-sized device that “sticks” (not permanently) to your mobile’s screen and gives you buttons that press onto the screen to work as a controller. I won’t post images or detailed descriptions. It’s a simple product easily […]
You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?
In-person events are good. I have missed them.