Creativity, curiosity, and code
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.
A list of great little indie iOS (and sometimes Android!) apps recently, and links to the places that I found them - usually interesting newsletters.
A very scattergun, brain dump of thoughts about the WP-UI app that I'm developoing in Electron.
It's not massively easy, and it's definitely not clear. But you CAN have test users for your Messenger bot. Here's how!
New iOS/OSX Markdown notes app "Bear" isn't for everyone, but if you're an Apple-using, Markdown-writing power user, it's excellent. My new favourite.
Thankfully, this isn't quite "Pay with your face". But it did make me wonder.
I think we should teach people to write code that's meaningful and understandable. It's my opinion that neither JavaScript nor CodeAcademy's new app are good tools for doing that.
Thoughts on the new Instagram-like PressGram social network and photo app.
This is part of a mini-series of posts about 'Going Digital'. If you missed it you might want to read the introduction. Books and Me In theory, I love books. I'd love to be the kind of person that finishes a decent book once a week. In reality I'm great at starting reading books, and […]