mikemee

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by mikemee 8mo ago
Yes, Fennel is a great distraction (see my other post)!
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by mikemee 8mo ago
In the FWIW department, my (tiny indie games) company shipped several apps based on S7 that ran cross-platform on iOS & Android (together with SQLite). We used native UI, but had a common Scheme S7 core that had the game and database lo
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by mikemee 2y ago
Strongly agree. We liked Fennel so much we adopted it for building our mobile apps. We have a SQLite + Lua core that handles business logic and increasingly also view and controller logic with a thin native wrapper for iOS and Android. With
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by mikemee 2y ago
Sad that Facebook Marketplace appears apathetic. Is it naive to think they could stop being part of the problem? Facebook Marketplace will not lift a finger to help you, period. Don't even try. You can click 'report this ad&#x27
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by mikemee 2y ago
No secret. A little puzzle app company I’ve been running for a while: www.eggheadgames.com. No ads or gamification. Just classic paper magazine puzzles. Pay for more or subscribe for unlimited play. As we’re small, rewriting the code over a
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by mikemee 2y ago
Another vote for s7. We successfully embedded it and SQLite as the (non graphics) engine for otherwise native apps on iOS and Android. Super fast. Great FFI. Reliable. Small. Huge benefits from shared code across our mobile apps, insanely f
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by mikemee 2y ago
This blog post on being an employee in the corporate world: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... It introduced me to the idea that most employees are "economic losers" who
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by mikemee 10y ago
Yes, I encountered this. Soon after I had set ddg to the default on all my browsers (mobile & desktop), I found that DDGs results have been perfectly acceptable most of the time. Further, I find that I use shortcuts like !w, !yt, or pla
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by mikemee 11y ago
My (still incomplete) analysis of whether it's worth it for my apps... I have some paid and freemium puzzle apps on Amazon and Play that would fit this model well, because they don't currently have ads, large numbers of people pla
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by mikemee 12y ago
Congrats on working hard & smart and getting results. Also impressed by Starbucks' role in all of this. How many other companies would have supported you through that period and perhaps in some way made this possible for you! I can
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by mikemee 13y ago
Back in the 80s, I was one of those bright-eyed smart young things that went to work for a startup as a developer. Before I knew it, I had a team of developers working for me, and we were all working 80-100 hours / week. At first it wa