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#92Building software steadily becomes accessible to non-developers. A freelance client I had now does most things alone with chatgpt. As a developer I have less and less the urge to build software. Instead I lately started doing more hardware stuff - flashing devices, setting up RPis and antennas, learning to solder. I hope I can keep my software dev job until retirement, but I‘m a bit pessimistic on that matter.
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#93This mitigates problems with LLMs' low quality code. For a single user, the bar is much lower. The app doesn't have to have all the features that work for everyone's edge cases, implemented in a way that other devs can maintain. It only needs to be good enough for one user, and can be discarded and recreated when it gets too messy.
If you want toys then sure. If you want something that, say, reliably calculates your taxes you might want a little more...certainty.
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#95Apps for one, but when I think there is even a mild potential others may use it, I share.
* Doom launcher and Megawad Steam-like library for macOS: https://github.com/stared/rusted-doom-launcher
* TRMNL X e-ink screen vibe coding usage screen: https://github.com/stared/trmnl-x-claude-codex
* And weather in Warsaw: https://github.com/stared/trmnl-x-weather-warsaw (here's location is hardcoded, so the expected use is fork and vive code to match both your location and visual preferences)
* Image upscaling script for a thermal camera, https://github.com/stared/thermal-upscale
And many, many others I did not share, mostly because they were too peculiar, really unlikely to be useful for anyone else than myself.
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#96Been doing this sort of stuff for 30 years. Mostly in Excel.
Hasn’t cost me anything.
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#97Writing code with real use is very different from writing code for the sake of writing (looks cool, sounds cool).
Writing code with one user is the base case of a “why am I writing this” recursion - because I use it.
Every action leads to next insight. For me, a browser extension that provides a table of content to chat interfaces because I always need to scroll up and down to read preview queries. Writing browser extension leads me to writing a RSS reader navigating with only keyboard. Writing RSS reader leads me to writing a virtual book shelf that visualize Goodreads record on a virtual 3D bookshelf. Writing virtual book shelf lead me to making a virtual climbing gym where I scan my local climbing gym into 3D model where I can map climbing videos on it. And it is just one chain
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#98Many people build calorie / macro tracker like OP but they don't build maintenance calorie tracker. Your app tracks calorie intake, doesn't keep track of total calorie burn of the day (maintenance calorie tracking) And no, calorie burn from watch is not good enough! >A 2020 systematic review by Fuller et al. found that consumer wearables often perform poorly at estimating energy expenditure, even when they measure st…
If the smartwatch data isn’t precise enough to estimate energy expenditure, what data does your website use that is so much better? Also, how much better it is? How do we even know it’s better? (I am not necessarily doubting it’s better, I am just interested in metrics you used)
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#99The article is also obviously written by Claude too. I’m starting to hate the internet.
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#100Building software steadily becomes accessible to non-developers. A freelance client I had now does most things alone with chatgpt. As a developer I have less and less the urge to build software. Instead I lately started doing more hardware stuff - flashing devices, setting up RPis and antennas, learning to solder. I hope I can keep my software dev job until retirement, but I‘m a bit pessimistic on that matter.
They basically inserted themselves between clients and developers. A few corporations ingested developer work and offered clients to pay a fraction, not giving anything back to developers.