Is it his company? It could be his baby and his passion.

If it’s just some random manager… well, I got no clue lol

There was perpetual stew?

I tried doing a dual boot to Mint awhile back, I did the mint backup at the start like it suggests, changed some things, broke it, restored from the backup thinking it was great id already made one, and broke the WHOLE pc.

I had to pull the battery on the BIOS to get it to go beyond a black screen when turning on.

It was terrible.

It seem to recall at the time recommendations about not doing dual boot, and if you wanted to dual boot, remove the main OS drive when you install Linux. Then put it back in.

No one cares if you leave a ticket open due to a bug or incomplete feature

Product sure as hell cares if you’re going to ship a bug or incomplete feature.

Never worked at company that wasn’t the case in over 15 years.

Product owns the work they ask us to do. We do their bidding.

And we certainly aren’t allowed to just change the scope of tickets at our own discretion without checking in

Apple won’t like that doomsday event lol

Give it long enough and somehow the person who decided on IPv6 will feel the same as every piece of matter we want to interact with can be networked.

I’m sure many smaller companies had their own internal Y2K moment as they scaled and became a big hit, and realized they used a wrong datatype like int instead of long or something and shit was gonna break by XYZ date if they did nothing heh.

This is my typical experience as well, too many people don’t do a code review of their own PR first.

When I was a junior, I had this coworker who did all my reviews. I was doing my absolute best and wanted to show that I was learning, so I would review all my work before submitting it and think, how would he review and respond to this code.

That just stuck with me and it’s my normal practice now.

I eventually learned that’s not as normal as I thought. I also tend to give better code reviews than others.

Edit: the other thing I do is check in with who will be reviewing my code well before I submit anything someone might think is weird and have a discussion about it before the reveiw. If it’s weird, there might be a better way unless were stuck due to technical debt or something, and doing that early vs at the end usually saves time.

So say we all

I’ve caught problems in code review and had to do this even.

Often it’s reading it and realizing there’s a complicated edge case or they missed something entirely.

Sure we can make a different ticket for that to move this along, but we’re getting product to agree first.

I don’t see him mentioning low level audio performance is a requirement. And he listed flutter as something he had considered.

Can you not process audio in the JVM?

Edit: targeting JVM he could also use the JNI and do the low level stuff in c++ if needed. I don’t know how that’d cross to iOS but it’d work on all 4 other platforms.

Edit: And he doesn’t need to target mobile either, he can just target the JVM, write it in Kotlin + Compose and if needed write native code if he needs more performance.

You can try Kotlin Compose Multiplatform.

It can target JVM (windows, Linux, Mac) and then work on iOS and Android.

Android and JVM are stable. IOS is alpha and works well. Should be beta this year.

WASM support is coming as well but is experimental.

You can do as much multiplatform as you want and do as much platform specific as you want.

Compose itself is a declarative UI framework. Your UI is code.

Edit: You do require a Windows, Linux, and Mac machine to build the executables for each desktop JVM app, as well as a Mac for an iOS app. Android you can build on any of them.

I’d greatly appreciate a “requires account” on app stores.

Looks like Lifeograph has a 3.0 release candiate which is brand new last month. Maybe they’ve have made things simpler and added a better theme?

Just saw your edit. I think I got a better idea of what you meant now with what PalmOS had. Such a shame about requiring an account to use the apps that are available. I get why they might do it if you want to share data across devices / platforms, but if you only want it locally and you’re okay with that, they should let you make that choice, especially for desktop apps.

So what do you really want when you say journaling your peogess.

Is that something like

Recurring Fitness Run 5k 2 times a week.

As you check it off for number one, it prompts you to leave a note about it? And maybe you can see all your notes by category or chronologically?

Or is the journaling a completely separate thing? I can see how the two might not be done as separate things as you’re really getting into 2 wholly different apps.

How can there not be a good todo app???

Is it just that there’s no Linux one but there is mobile?

Maybe with Kotlin Multiplatform someone will get an existing mobile one running on Linux as that would be useful.

I can’t imagine it’d be too hard given a todo app doesn’t need a lot of Android specific functionality. I’m in the middle of converting my app to target desktop/ios/android and its been going very well and the tooling is improving rapidly.

That or someone might write a nice one as a starter project as Multiplatform from the start to learn it?

We had a Vic20 then a Commodore 64 when I was a kid.

I think our first modem was 300baud and I went on BBS’s with it.

I think the next modem was 2400, but I remember being so excited when we got a 9600.

I got a hand me down 386 and later bought a 486 cpu used off a neighbor and upgraded it myself. That was my first time tinkering inside the case.

What about finding someone like this and then blackmailing them?

That would be cheaper

I moved into a new place, there was a tenant in private suite downstairs.

We hung out here and there and I fronted him for a couple restaurant meals over a few weeks.

When I started asking for him to pay me back he laughed and said no, you shouldn’t give money to strangers.

I let the landlord know, he didn’t care, we stopped talking and I eventually moved out.