tlh

As someone that's never fly fished before, I found it to be a nice shallow wade into something I knew nothing about and came away slightly richer knowledge-wise for it.

But I do agree, it could probably use some more of the creator’s own personality and some restraint design wise if it were to go beyond scratching an itch.

I’ve found it very useful to leverage the “speed” of AI to iron out all of the UX-questions of a greenfield side project (an organiser for a/my family).

My first aim is to get to what feels like v1 feature-completeness. My approach is building out the feature, dogfooding it for a few days, work out the bits I don’t like, adjusting, and then rinse and repeating.

I don’t like the finer UI details (the colours it’s chosen for instance), nor do I fully jive with how it’s implemented the business logic (it’s verbose and needlessly fancy in some places) but - that’s not what I’m concerned about now. I’m concerned about whether my wife and I find the tool useful. (We do, huzzah).

I’m now looking forward to sitting down and redesigning the finer details of the UI to my taste, and then, having established pretty solidly how the backend is going to need to work, how I would do it, and then crack on and do a rewrite from the ground up so that I can maintain/extend it more effectively going forward.

Which is all to say, I find Claude and it’s kin are excellent for prototyping (answering questions, giving someone something to play with), and for uncovering/discovering the requirements of a project which make it then easier to do “properly” if you feel it hasn’t done a good job already.

Everyone will have their own approach of course, but I’ve found it helpful to take this one in this case.

Rich widgets on the Home Screen are valuable too. As a web developer, I wish I were able to make widgets for people to put on their Home Screen to perform certain actions in less clicks, or have information from my (web) apps easily viewable at a glance. Which I know they would want. Right now, as far as I’m aware, for me to do that in iOS (and possibly Android) is to build those in native land.

AI art is certainly considered uncool today in many circles.

I do wonder though… were there other innovations that were uncool in their early years, where now nobody bats an eyelid?

Is that point just a generational/passage of time issue?

I enjoy the concept, and think you could be onto something - but it seemed a bit too easy to be satisfying. I think the path to solving the puzzle is a bit too straightforward. That is, removing a letter one by one WILL get you to the solution, and there’s not enough of a cognitive work-out to figure out the next one to remove.

I don’t have a solution mind you, but having made Stackdown and been on a similar journey, I needed the feedback to get it where it is now.

Keep going!

Oh, also I really like the tidy design.

After burning porridge in a titanium pot for the second time, I found this piece to be very helpful and informative and wish I’d read it before!

It can be a slog to build and release a game like this, so well done on getting it out! Personally, I think it’s quite well polished UI wise. UX wise I guess keyboard input as others have said would be nice. On mobile I really want to drag the letters to re-order them, - but - at the same time it works just fine. We’ve had loads of feedback for https://puzzlist.com/stackdown and I felt pretty overwhelmed so if you feel like that, be encouraged, squint your eyes and see all the positivity from what you’ve made!

Nice!

Was tickled when I saw the fork feature. I’ve often thought recipe sites missed that and coming from a software dev background I guess it seems obvious where we’ve got used to forking in git. It was on the roadmap for my stab at a recipe site: https://osomatsu.net

It seems such a shame to forego a literal dinner-fork as an icon for the feature though? :)

Really love this, kudos for making it! Can listen to the Sonic 2 soundtrack on loop for hours.

Just a note to say that on MacOS Safari none of the icons or fonts seem to want to load. Looking at the console it appears to be lots of CORS-related issues. I.e, "Cancelled load to <a package url> because it violates the resource's Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy response header."

Thoughts on TablePlus? It’s my goto and have never been left disappointed by it

Bullet Hell Pong. Brilliant. Is there a win state? I just kept on playing until I hit the back button…

https://www.osomatsu.net/ — a little recipe writing and sharing website that me and my wife (and some close relatives) have been using over the last few years. Have got plenty of ideas to implement on it, but it works well for us as is at the moment. People can request to join for free if it could be useful for them too.

I’ve not seen it in code, but if you were writing prose you might use it as a section break.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography)

Edit: it’s called an Asterism

At first it will feel like it doesn't matter. Then it will feel like it's all that matters. Then it will feel like it sometimes matters.

Oh my, and a bucket load of iOS tips too!

TIL you can tap and drag with 2 fingers to multi-select list items in mail and notes, etc

Bless you for finding and collating

Editorialised:

https://www.cityu.edu.hk/research/stories/2023/06/06/cityu-i...

Makes me grateful for my hands and motor skills. That's 83 challenging moments for someone out there...

Write and share recipes with people - https://www.osomatsu.recipes