Timeline

⤑ Electricity Doesn’t Actually Need a Return Wire.

I learned something new.

⤑ 4K Video Feedback Device Complete! Custom 4K Screens with Analog Knobs, Fractals Without a Computer!.

The 4k version is done. The fractals are amazing!

Apple already built the pieces. Shortcuts travel person to person with no review at all, and enterprise distribution has put apps on employee phones outside the App Store for years. I think they need to aim that same machinery at individuals. Maybe call it a $20/year “Personal Developer Program.”

This would be wonderful. But I think it should be free, for my devices (and the ones of my family) and perhaps make the 20 a year so I can distribute to 20 other devices? Ok, no scratch that it should just five us free side loading.

⤑ The Case for a Personal Apple Developer Tier.

Founders often reduce this lesson to “ship fast.” I agree with shipping fast, but after you ship, be honest about what you actually tested. Did the prototype test demand, the experience, or the business model? Or did it only prove that your team could build it? If you cannot answer that, you might mistake an incomplete test for a failed idea. You might also mistake a good demo for a working company.

⤑ Revising.

Something to keep in my mind.

Yesterday was my second to last day of my summer holiday and I finally managed to do my 2025 taxes. They switched to a new tool and I was a bit hesitant at the beginning but the new tool is so much better than the old one used to be! And I’m glad I have them done now – and for once not on the last possible moment :-).

Finally redid the cabling of our TV and all its devices. I’m glad it’s done but I feel totally knocked out by it now.

⤑ Surreptitious Entry Into Historic Locks & Safes [MissFisherCon 2026].

Loved this presentation, especially all the historic information about locks and safes.

I just finished reading A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan.📚

⤑ They Took LMNOP From the ABC Song and People are MAD.

The world is saved — not!

⤑ Start your community funding.

wemakeit Communities is the Swiss solution for ongoing community funding. Instead of raising money once for a clearly defined project, you build a community that supports you with monthly contributions.

Communities is the first genuine alternative to Patreon and the like. We’re independent of US Big Tech, community-owned and chart our own course. We only coll

It looks like an interesting product, not sure how usable it is for people outside of Switzerland (especially at the start). But I think it is good to get another option in this space.

Apparently my silly cat name is: Evil Potato :-D

I’m not yet convinced about the whole Ralph loop stuff, but one big issue is also that my subscription is not big enough for it to work though the night. And it certainly also needs a fully tested and thought though set of tickets to work from.

It looks like I learn new stuff about the PDF file format everyday Oo.

Casey Liss asked “What is FileMaker?” on the Accidental Tech Podcast, Episode 700. Since I grew up in the FileMaker era and was immersed in that world, I couldn’t resist answering his question and reminiscing about the old days. The following is what I wrote to Casey [ the guys responded to my ema

⤑ Dear Casey, A Walk Down FileMaker Memory Lane… (via Leon Mika on MB).

I never got warm with it, but I also never did give it as much time as I gave HyperCard which came with more introduction and help (I was a child at the time and could not just buy books). We got the HyperCard book for free. And if I remember correctly the introduction stacks were also a good resource (which came with the tool). So I spent a lot more productive time with HyperCard than Filemarker, but I remember trying to build some libraries with it.

I’m experimenting with my first Ralph loop today. Feels like I’m half a year late to this.