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Couple of scratch-my-itch apps. 1. Plimsoll Line for dealing with anxieties from mountains of Reminder items, by surfacing the stress factors and taking small actions such as quick…

Thank you so much for taking a look at Plimsoll Line and giving such a good feedback! The anxiety caused by procrastination is definitely real, my wife and I both feel the stress w…

https://plimsoll-line.app I learned that ships have a "max load" line (or Plimsoll Line) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_line_(watercraft) to prevent overloading them with cargo…

One thing I would like about this system is that I wouldn't get incessant notifications about things I haven't yet done lol. I do think that building a habit to check on a txt file…

Thank you so much John for your encouragement and the awesome tool HN Simulator ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908 )! For those who haven't tried it yet, I did couple …

Hello HN, I’m the developer of Plimsoll Line, an iOS app that tries to solve the anxiety I feel when my to-do list gets too long. I built this to scratch my own itch. I’ve found th…

I've had a soft spot for defold, partly because they're unique in the gamedev space. For example, the GUI editor that is built-in is done in Clojure! https://github.com/defold/defo…

The ads angle is an interesting one since that's what motivates most things that Google and Meta do. Their LLMs' context window size has been growing, and while this might the natu…

Thank you for putting into words your frustrations with trying to grok GT and Pharo, which matches mine. It's too bad because I can sense the fascinating technologies and the possi…

Haven't tried with Pragtical (hard to say it out loud BTW, lol) but have had success with right-click-opening other apps that give this error. Sometimes I need to do it multiple ti…

Agreed, Decker has that right feel to it to be a good reimplementation of HyperCard. I’m happy it exists, especially as a desktop app.

I believe the references to “arc” here and elsewhere in the thread is referring to the new web browser and not the Lisp-family language. There’s a GitHub link to a Swift ui binding…

I had to right-click open twice in a row, back-to-back. I've seen this with other apps downloaded from non-app-store, from time to time. Very non-intuitive but rewards (irrational)…

The author of the article also has some thoughts on those topics: https://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-g... I’ve only skimmed it and have started reading but …

Good question, though what you have in mind might be real time metrics, not analytics. Even then you might not need real time metrics to know whether your rapid changes are breakin…

Not reverse engineering, but I'd used free iOS/macOS apps that could inspect the traffic content. I also had access to the spec sheet from the manufacturer ("smart" BLE scale) that…

One that I've kicked around with is TIC-80: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80 A bit more generous with the system resources, but PICO-8 does have a bigger community and "carts" to d…

My take on this is that React Native works fine for content-dominant (media, text) apps but maybe not for UI interaction-dominant (arcade games, heavy animations, gestures) ones. Y…

https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/distribution/app-stores create-react-native-app works by leveraging Expo

As an alternative to Jupyter UI and Emacs, Hydrogen ( https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen ) could be viable. It runs as an Atom extension and connects to a Jupyter server instance.…

Recently listened to an episode of Radiolab includes an interview with Hany Farid: http://www.radiolab.org/story/breaking-news/ Pretty interesting thinking about the gap between wh…

I came across https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six recently and was impressed with what it could get done. The documentation can be challenging to parse, so I relied on a code …

I want to know this too! When I poked around before, I got the impression that it would be good for writing apps that need sophisticated logic, as the language and the platform is …

I also would like know this. I find the Pharo ecosystem challenging to understate as the documentations aren't as rich as other platforms with more volunteers. Or maybe it's becaus…

There was an older blog post about deploying Seaside (a SmallTalk web app framework) on AWS. It boiled down to stripping the image of unused parts (tree shaking), including the GUI…