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About 1/3 of the applications I use regularly are ones I've written myself, from the trivial to one that are very large and complex. My favorite one, though, was a simple alarm clock app I wrote (back when I used alarm clocks). It had the one thing I wanted from alarm clocks that nobody provided: every time you hit the snooze button, it snoozes for half the time you got the last time you hit the snooze. When the snoo…
Lua and LÖVE. Talk about some of my apps in isolation: https://akkartik.name/freewheeling Demo showing me combining my apps in workflows: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-freewheeling-2023-07-06 Now I've also been getting into mobile development: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel
Lua and LÖVE. Talk about some of my apps in isolation: https://akkartik.name/freewheeling Demo showing me combining my apps in workflows: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-freewheeling-2023-07-06 Now I've also been getting into mobile development: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel
Do you use zerobrane or carousel to write your apps? Why?
Carousel is for a whole new use case: building simple scripts right on my phone or tablet. Nothing else can do that as simply, I think. It's cross-platform but that's an experimental property I'm hoping to carry forward to other apps. The use case here is purely for mobile devices.
Rails, render, sqlite3. Hotwire really is incredible (coming from someone who's primarily a JS dev in the past) and makes common things way easier. The more I write ruby, it really feels like home cooking, whereas even the best JS frameworks (sveltekit + bun IMO) felt more like ...home maintenance? Plumbing?