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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.

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@V_ Yeah, collectively we already pay for these devices several times over, making Apple one of the most profitable businesses ever. No way Apple gets me to pay for the “privilege” of writing my own custom software just because it’s their device it’s running on.

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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.

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⤑ 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.

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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.

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Finally finding the time to watch this film. I like it so far, although is is hard to follow with the fast paced subtitles it uses. The story reminds me a bit of Lés Mis. But it is also clearly visible a propaganda piece.

The YouTube video thumbnail features a black-and-white image of a woman with long hair, looking upwards with an expression of surprise or fear. At the top, the text reads “CHINESE FILM CLASSICS.” Below the woman is the title “The White-Haired Girl” in red, followed by the Chinese characters “白毛女.” In the bottom left corner, there’s a circular emblem with a stylized design.

ABOUT THE FILM: The White-Haired Girl 白毛女 (1950) is a seminal work of New China cinema. A musical film adapted from a stage production, which in turn was claimed to have been adapted from a popular folk legend, The White-Haired Girl is an ideologically-freighted story of liberation and rejuvenation. A fresh young country girl is subjected to inhuman suffering by a despicable landlord, before being rescued when the communist Eighth-Route Army liberates her village and sees justice done. Xi’er’s new lease on life became symbolic of the rebirth of China, whose modern history was divided into two distinct periods by the slogan: “The old society forced humans to become ghosts / The new society turns ghosts into humans.”

⤑ The White-Haired Girl 白毛女 (1950) with English subtitles.

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@V_ LOL. I read a (not very good) book one time where the author didn’t seem to want to say ‘walked’ so the character ambled or glided or shuffled etc. ????

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@Miraz oh dear such writing is so hard to read. And it just takes you out of a story. Although I do understand why it happens. It feels so wrong to constantly use the same word when writing dialogue.

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@V_ Ah yes, but we need the ordinary to be always there in order that the more rare special stands out. ????

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I will so copy this! Such a good idea.

At the top of my daily note, there are five little checkboxes. Shop. Bonsai. Exercise. Reading. Meditation. They aren’t on the calendar. They have no time blocks assigned.
For a while, I thought of them as “non-negotiables”.
The shift happened gradually. I started thinking of them less as obligations and more as escape valves. When I finish a hard chunk of writing, or a run of support emails, or a meeting that took more out of me than it should have, I look at the boxes. I pick one. I go.
Shop time means out in my garage-turned-maker space, planing a board or cutting a joint.

⤑ The Escape-Valve System.

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A person with light hair is standing and playing a keyboard in a dimly lit room. They are wearing a colorful sweater over a striped shirt, with their hair in a bun. The timecode “10:07:41:01” is visible in the upper left corner.

⤑ Almost Regular Slime Tutorial.

I love this show, but I’m not sure I should have watched it yesterday evening while being home alone. It was triggering. I don’t recommend it if you have issues are triggered by mental health topics. But oh is this show done well. I suspect I need to watch it a second time at some point.

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