An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)

Post by JohnFen » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 10:11 PM UTC

vinc wrote: post #221

wiradikusuma wrote: post #72

At the same time, I feel the gap is widening between these and professional apps. It's easier to write apps, and it's harder to write "real" apps (for the masses). I'm writing a book ( https://opinionatedlaunch.com ) over the course of 3+ years and I have to keep updating the "Mobile" chapters. Not because of some fancy new framework, but because both Apple and Google keep adding "requirements." Sure, they're for the…

This happened to me. I wrote an Android app many years ago for my own need and after a month or two it was done. I have nothing to change, it works exactly as I want. But at some point Google decided that it didn't keep up and needed to be removed from the store. I'm not complaining, I can still install it with `adb` but nobody else can anymore. I'm not sure I can still build the binary though, probably not.

Post by gmiller123456 » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 10:59 PM UTC

bhpm wrote: post #128

This post changed my mind about sideloading on iPhones. Before I read it I was firmly in the camp of “lock it down, so grandma doesn’t get hacked.” But now I just think it stops people from making home cooked meal apps like this. I also think it propagates the notion that computers are magic and should only be programmed by magicians. But no software developer I have ever met has felt this way. I don’t feel this way.

Post by ozim » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 11:42 PM UTC

calamari4065 wrote: post #102

supertron wrote: post #36

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> There's a beauty to engineering something having yourself as the target user, and no one else. 100%, I'm following a similar approach to you with yet another notes app solely for my own use. Have you written more about your personal project anywhere? One thing I only realised once I started building my own tools, is that you become - from day one - an unmatched world-class expert in using that tool. This seems obvi…

One of the worst things in the world is explaining how it works to someone else, then watching them use it poorly. I have a convenience tool I made for myself, but shared with my coworkers. I deeply regret sharing it because nobody knows how to use it effectively

Post by will0 » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 12:40 AM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #231

vinc wrote: post #221

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This happened to me. I wrote an Android app many years ago for my own need and after a month or two it was done. I have nothing to change, it works exactly as I want. But at some point Google decided that it didn't keep up and needed to be removed from the store. I'm not complaining, I can still install it with `adb` but nobody else can anymore. I'm not sure I can still build the binary though, probably not.

> I can still install it with `adb` but nobody else can anymore. You don't need adb to sideload applications. If you enable sideloading, you can copy it onto the phone and run it that way.

Post by rthomas6 » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 1:08 AM UTC

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #196

rthomas6 wrote: post #174

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In python I do horrible things like the following when nobody else is going to see it: [[[foo(x) for x in y] for y in bar_vec if baz(y)] for bar_vec in bar_mat if bar_vec != []]

I have my secret perversions as well, so I've got no judgement for you, but I do have to wonder how our editing styles differ if you find that easier to navigate than the equivalent nested for loop.

  for bar_vec in bar_mat:
      if bar_vec != []:
          for y in bar_vec:
              if baz(y):
                  for x in y:
                      foo(x)