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I suggest saving the files as text/markdown and sending them to your children as an email zip file. You could also print a book and give copies to your children and grandchildren. …

I built a go caldav server and client for my task management app ( http://calmtasks.com ) and had a similar experience, which surprised me. Go generally has at least one good, work…

calmshows - discover and organise shows and movies: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/calmshows/id6749471333 ios and web app and openapi spec

I was bitten by this using aws’s golang sdk. The nuance is that Amazon updated their sdk so that the default is that the sdk no longer works for third party services that do not us…

Great!

This is nice! Maybe add a unified timeline for all sources?

Great question! Most of the articles I read only focus on apps with multiple millions of users, but most software has a much smaller user base. I assume that most things I build wi…

For most web apps I like magic link over email with cookie sessions that expire after 30 days. JWT for apis authorised by email magic links. No passwords to be hacked. No third par…

FWIW having built a sync service I can tell you that this is an issue in practice, and you have to test for these differences in any event.

Hmm the macOS photos folders have this many files so I’m not sure it’s an edge case to sync this many files between at least 2 clients. And the issues you mention are real even whe…

I think that you can’t build it in a weekend. Well I couldn’t. As soon as you try to rapidly and reliably sync, say, 20k+ files over 3+ clients with intermittent internet connectio…

I know this doesn’t help, but I reached the point where I just built my own alternative: https://calmdocs.com It was a lot of work but now I can sync multiple folders at once on ma…