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I've put a lot of effort into mine, TechniCalc I've been working on it for what will be a decade later this year. It tries to take all the features you had on

I've put a lot of effort into mine, TechniCalc I've been working on it for what will be a decade later this year. It tries to take all the features you had on these physical calculators, but present them in a modern way. It works on macOS, iOS, and iPad OS With regards to the article, I wasn't quite as sophisticated as that. I do track rationals, exponents, square roots, and multiples of pi; then fall back to decimal when needed. This part is open source, though! Marketing page - https://jacobdoescode.com/technicalc https://jacobdoescode.com/technicalc AppStore Link - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/technicalc-calculator/id1504965415 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/technicalc-calculator/id150496... Open source components - https://github.com/jacobp100/technicalc-core https://github.com/jacobp100/technicalc-core

sneak 2y ago
I am seriously curious when it became not a violation of the principle of least surprise that a calculator app uses the network to communicate information from my device (which definitionally belongs to me) to the developer. Where I am standing, that never happened, but that would require that a simply staggering number of people be classified as unreasonable.
- jacobp100 2y ago
  The only network requests are for currency rates, and Sentry crash logs. I don’t collect analytics other than these crash logs https://jacobdoescode.com/privacy https://jacobdoescode.com/privacy
  - sneak 2y ago
    It is the Sentry surveillance to which I refer. The crashes on my computer do not belong to you.
    - jacobp100 2y ago
      You can't please everyone. Do note these are only sent when something goes wrong in the app. To give you an indication of how little I collect, for the last 30 days, I can see 3,700 app sessions (only includes people who opted into Apple's analytics), and 14 reports of exceptions within the app. That's fewer than 0.4% of users.
      - sneak 2y ago
        You seem to have completely misunderstood me. The amount of data that is or isn’t collected isn’t relevant.

sneak 2y ago

I am seriously curious when it became not a violation of the principle of least surprise that a calculator app uses the network to communicate information from my device (which definitionally belongs to me) to the developer. Where I am standing, that never happened, but that would require that a simply staggering number of people be classified as unreasonable.

jacobp100 2y ago
The only network requests are for currency rates, and Sentry crash logs. I don’t collect analytics other than these crash logs https://jacobdoescode.com/privacy https://jacobdoescode.com/privacy
- sneak 2y ago
  It is the Sentry surveillance to which I refer. The crashes on my computer do not belong to you.
  - jacobp100 2y ago
    You can't please everyone. Do note these are only sent when something goes wrong in the app. To give you an indication of how little I collect, for the last 30 days, I can see 3,700 app sessions (only includes people who opted into Apple's analytics), and 14 reports of exceptions within the app. That's fewer than 0.4% of users.
    - sneak 2y ago
      You seem to have completely misunderstood me. The amount of data that is or isn’t collected isn’t relevant.