Creativity, curiosity, and code
How do you know if a new piece of software will be secure, sustainable, trustworthy, in the long term? Or if someone just made a vibe coded thing and launched it to make a quick buck?
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!
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.