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Comment · 9 days ago
Indeed, and just use Apple TV or so. Or Chromecast. Or whatever you do trust. I have never plugged in my TV network connection.
Comment · 3 months ago
Am I mistaken or is the premise: I don't like that users have an opinion about my app?
Comment · 5 months ago
APKs need to be zipaligned, I don't see that mentioned.
Comment · 6 months ago
Support? It's just showing weaknesses of LLM's. Which is a valid sort of research I would say?
Comment · 10 months ago
This year I also switched from Ruby to Kotlin on my hobby/light commercial backends. I just can't stand the way Ruby is not statically typed, and the resulting insecurity around if everything is actually doing what it should do. Kotlin gives me joy, and performance is actually better (trading memory requirements ofcourse, but that's not a big problem anymore). I still love Ruby, but only use it for simple scripts now.
Comment · 11 months ago
I indeed really liked Ruby because of it's expresiveness, it being totally OO, the lovely readable and writeable syntax.

But yeah, that was 20 years ago. These days I find Kotlin to be the perfect fit for my projects, because of the static typing and its ergonomic syntax. I just don't feel confident about Ruby projects when they start growing. But, I still love the language, although mostly for small things.

Comment · 1 year ago
KVM is just your Linux Kernel Virtual Machine. So you can manage VM's on Linux. It is not related to Docker.
Comment · 1 year ago
I recently opened Pinterest after a year or so, and did look for some nice architecture / houses, and all results had the tag 'AI enhanced'. No I don't want AI houses, I want to see real architecture! Even though the tags are there, you can't filter on 'No AI'. So I stopped using it again.
Comment · 1 year ago
So yeah, this is only really relevant for collecting logs from clickhouse. Not for logs from anything else. Good for them, and I really love Clickhouse, but not really relevant.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, I would think that would work better indeed. As a augmentation or help tool. I would love to be able to say to MyFitnessPal that 'I ate this and that food, same as usual, and oh yeah drank this.' Just as a easier input interface. I wouldn't trust a pure AI solution without some proper database behind it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Did you verify it sometimes how accurate it is? I would be wary of it to be honest.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah yes, and every small Android dev is banned from Play and Admob for tiny unknown reasons, with no recourse or way to communicate with Google. But Meta here probably won't get any problems at all. They should be temporarily banned!
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Very well rounded and grounded article. Like it very much!

Indeed as someone else in the comments said, the personal touch is the best asset you have as indie. So talk with your customers.

I run a Android app, next to my day job, and I pride myself on always putting the customer first, and actually fixing their pain points or implementing their suggestions. Empathy is so important, and something a big company will struggle with.

I'll checkout the recommended books!

Comment · 1 year ago
I really like Clickhouse. Discovered it recently, and man, it's such a breath of fresh air compared to suboptimal solutions I used for analytics. It's so fast and the CLI is also a joy to work with.

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