julesallen

Thank you for sharing this.

Absolutely agree, have been looking for something like this for a while now.

Did you build this yourself? Would love to know more if you’d be so kind to share.

Used to do similar things with Trello before the focus went all in on enterprise (getting acquired by Atlassian will do that).

There’s need and there’s want I suppose.

My oldest computer book I won’t part with is Alan Simpson’s dBase III+ Programmer's reference guide, circa 1987. This book was transformative and allowed me to get a gig as a coder, so much self driven practice on a crappy underpowered generic clone PC. That crappy hardware was an advantage I didn’t see at the time, having to think about routines that were fast enough based not because of faster disks and tons of RAM.

Do I need this book? Not so much. But it brings me joy carefully flipping through it on occasion.

Glad I'm not the only lunatic who would do something like this. At least until I got my paws on dBASE.

I worked with somebody with your name in the early 90s on a Sequent/Dynix system, that wasn't you by chance was it?

I turned this on as well and all I've had are a few false positives when running up stairs or similar. Good feature and id rather have to unlock occasionally than error the other way.

Like that there's no ads but it's a big no on the "data shared with third parties". Assuming this is how they make money? I'd rather wait 10 more mins for the bus I just missed.

Android here. Have you looked at the amount of data this shares with third parties? No ads but holy hell. No thanks.

If it's any consolation you're really not missing much!

I had one of these and I think I bought it from Staples, Office Depot, or whatever the predecessor to this was. I can't remember the exact timing but I picked up an IBM Simon around the same time.

Both were half baked products that ended up in a drawer after a couple of weeks. The EO had lousy battery life and not as good as pen and paper for note taking which is why I wanted it.

I had various devices over that time frame which included the Palm Pilot, Sony Magic Link, all of the Newtons, a Sharp Zaurus, and so on. The one that really stuck was the Psion MX5 as I could actually touch type on it.

Prodigy, haven't thought about that in a lot of years, thanks for the memory tickle. Even with the painted-with-bricks interface.

GEnie was another that was kind of fun. And I still can remember my CompuServe number!

It's a little anecdotal as nobody was really writing history down at that point but it feels about the right timing.

The first time the FTP server I ran got broken into was about then, it was a shock as why would some a-hole want to do that? I wasn't aware until one of my users tipped me off a couple of days after the breach. They were sharing warez rather than porn at least, having the bandwidth to download even crappy postage stamp 8 bit color videos back then would take you hours.

When this happened I built the company's first router a few days later and put everything behind it. Before that all the machines that needed Internet access would turn on TCP/IP and we'd give them a static IP from the public IP range we'd secured. Our pipe was only 56k so if you needed it you had to have a really good reason. No firewall on the machines. Crazy, right?

Very different times for sure.

If you actually read the article all will be much clearer.

"Here a busy New Yorker *can book a 5 minute time slot*, pay for a hat, stand in a spot under my window for 3 seconds, have a hat put on their head, and get on with their extremely important, extemely busy day all within a single New York minute."