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The BLE peripheral (AirPods) have to be connected and paired. Then, this connected device was “explorable” via other apps on the same device because the actual connection is maintained by the middleware/OS… e.g. an app may disconnect f
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Well-designed products look and feel much simpler than the complexity they hide.
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Thank you for asking. It’s definitely worse. I keep wishing there was a way to roll back or trial new keyboard behavior engines. This experience is powered by a lot of data, none of which we can see or edit. If I could go in and unlearn som
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Is there an AI system for those dot woodcut prints ie WSJ?
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My big calculus (I, II, III) takeaways were rate of change, acceleration, inflection points (e.g. accelerating at a decelerating rate), and funky word problems involving filling bathtubs with a flow of water and calculating how fast the wat
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I was a mobile dev, mostly native iOS and some android/kotlin, for better than 10 years. I still maintain a dozen apps from my days as a full time consultant. Before consulting I did web dev in early 2000s when the stack was LAMP and J
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I feel that road rage has increased even in rural areas. Being on a bicycle or on foot automatically makes you an “other” and the contempt on busy roads is palpable. The law states “cars must yield to pedestrians in crosswalk” (novel idea)
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The idea of a highly integrated ecosystem is all about providing elegant solutions to corner cases. If you don’t have a cellular watch it’d just keep on working like it has been. False negative and all. But if the watch was there… Crash det
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Linux on the laptop instantly triggers nostalgia. I was 15 in 1998 and had just worked our families root beer and popcorn concession stands for 12 days at the Minnesota State Fair. Every penny I earned was used to purchase a brand new iMac
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There’s also the successful side hustles that don’t feel comfortable sharing financial details, whether it’s because of competition, being seen as braggadocio, or maybe because you feel the business will grow even more next year.
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Colonoscopies. I build the software equivalent of colonoscopies. Everyone needs it at some point. Everyone hates it. When it’s done you want to forget about it. Until next time … My nasty niche is label printer software. If I search my supp
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I’ve been looking for “how to ask questions the smart way” for years! I kept googling the wrong title … I love how thorough it is, in the style of a Linux how-to or RFC. I’m a solo developer and receive maybe 10 emails a day from end users.
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It takes all kinds. I (have learned to) love working with hardware. There’s a specific tension between hardware developers (firmware) and software that runs closer to the user. I used to do a lot more consulting - building mobile apps that
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The ones on an Avery sheet? Yes! Through some trial and error you should be able to get it to generate a proper PDF. https://label.live/faqs/design/how-do-i-setup-a-custom-label...
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I purposely add friction via “in-app purchase” so users embrace the free trial. Less support issues when you help someone pre-purchase. Very low refund rate / at the expense of revenue. However, you can purchase a license via mobile at
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I work on my own indie label printer app. Let me just tell ya, “label printers…” Sigh. I feel the pain. Stay strong.
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An elder pulled me aside and whispered, “you’ve got one foot in the past and the other is in the future…” Yeah? “You’re pissing on the present.”
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The gold standard for me over the last 4 years has been BWIP-JS, which uses the BWIPP postscript library. It's so good, and useful, and has been powering my indie barcode label design Electron app. Shout out to Terry Burton and metaflo
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Not to mention the backward vertical integration of P.A. Semi in 2008.
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I love HIBT. I’ve listened to 400+ episodes and regularly have to stop listening because I’m so motivated.
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I remember my first sale like it was yesterday. I published an Electron app to the Mac App Store and the next day I had a sale in the Caribbean geography. Wow, I thought... maybe there is a market for what I'm building – because the on
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Gotcha. Thank you for the explanation.
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Ok, so it's a self-hosted CRUD boilerplate with auth written in Go? Or a self-hosted Notion but with less view/UI customization out of the box?
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I’m familiar with firebase and an electron developer and I still don’t understand what this project does. I wish I did, because it seems it’d be interesting to me. Even the app that uses this (Presentator) is described in a way that leaves
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I maintain “mission critical” label printer software that powers thousands of customer businesses. But here’s the catch: it’s self hosted because it’s an electron app running on their desktop computer. If it “goes down” it’s not because of
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This is a strange amplification, for sure. But so is every other success story. I’ve had two successes that were only tangentially connected. The first was consulting, then building my own app, now I’m entering selling hardware. I went from
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I posted my MVP to the Mac App Store and had a sale the next day in the… Caribbean… thousands of miles away. Fast forward 4 years and I’m selling my indie electron app across the world. https://label.live/features/app&#
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Flash cards are an interesting idea. You could definitely make them with the Sheet PDF feature. Cool idea.
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Oh those silicon press screenshots make my heart race. Nice find!
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Mail merge is great for long form letters and adding greetings, addresses, etc. But if you need to print labels from Numbers you might want to consider something a bit more powerful. Enter my solo developer niche. I wrote an electron app ca

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