Laurence Stone

What meme would go with this? "If I had come through K12 these days... I wouldn't exist!" --- a doctorate in math who won't let me use her name

Here's something to try: I just got back from vacation, far enough north that I had no internet. The fun was around us. But now I followed a link to YouTube, and got hit over the head with an iMac screen full of "HEY! THE FUN IS OVER HERE! NO, HERE!" Talk about two worlds...

Somebody please invent a 24-inch iPad that I can place on a podium and project onto a screen. Wait: and some kind of glove (no finger tips) so if the side of my palm hits the screen, nothing opens up.

@thedanielaros Sometimes the best rest from work comes from spending quality time on a different kind of work!

I’ve never heard anyone say they regretted taking a break from work. But I have heard many say they regretted burning out because they didn’t know when to stop. There is ZERO SHAME in stepping back to rest and recharge. Don’t be embarrassed. Don’t worry about what others might think. The opportunity cost of your health and happiness is wayyy too high to let work "consume" you.

@SwiftUI_newbie Full time? Way to wreck a great hobby

The more I think about it the more I realize that the solo indie life probably ain’t for me. The thought of sitting home and only interact via teams or zoom with people while working just sounds depressing 🥲

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Who misses the days of big print publishing? You know, when they used to put so much effort into catching all the typos, before going to press...

First two app assignments due this term (SOH-CAH-TOA): youtu.be/ksISIx6HbnA

Flash-and-Math, eat your heart out :-)

@seraleev More to the point: How many days did it take to create each app?

Apps generating $100/month I have two apps: textblur.app and stitchkit.app. These are apps that will most likely never reach $1000 in monthly revenue. When I created them, I didn’t have big ambitions to turn them into major projects. However, they’ve been consistently generating $100 per month each. That’s an extra $200 added to the company’s budget, completely from organic traffic - and that’s pretty awesome! The revenue from these apps fully covers server costs and even a couple of SaaS subscriptions.

Is it just me, or is it a whole lot easier to make typos now that xcode tries to finish all my thoughts for me?

I side-load the app onto my device. It works. Wonderful! Time for a break. Then I come back and xcode has new errors for me... what in the world

@pigg_thomas I only have one app out at the moment, but I kept it very simple: "This app records no private data" was about all I had to say 🙂

Playing around with Wordpress last night to sort out my own website. So a fairly productive half hour or so. By the way for your apps privacy policy did you find a template or just get ai to write it for you ?

I wonder what's the fastest anyone has gone from idea to App Store?

@SwiftUI_newbie OK so wait: what is being bet on? Someone has won 100% of bets when the odds were between 2.16:1 and 2.85:1?

Do you understand the data I am presenting in this view? Also, should I remove the word average? Feels like a lot of repetition to have it as a headline and then mention it in the 6 boxes ☺️

My smallish apps are getting bigger. Now my online students can save their quiz scores to Google Firebase and I can view them from home! But wow, the various tutorials out there were all over the place. I half think I should make my own tutorial... for us "advanced beginners."

@SwiftUI_newbie As a "beginner," I can end up with very long Views because I'm too busy trying to see how things work to worry about splitting things off. The trouble is, I'll add one more weenie line of code and then boom I get "compiler cannot type-check the expression in reasonable time."

Is it bad if a single view is 658 lines of code long? 🙄

I seem to be on a run, running into AI errors. Folks, I know AI is fast and fun, but you MUST PROOFREAD! This from the Raisin site:

Did you know that Christmas Eve is always on a Sunday? That's what AI wants me to believe (line 2):

@pigg_thomas Maybe you could try family coding? 😉 I remember doing that with my two young boys. They started with "Scratch," then graduated to simple javascript games, like Snake and Hangman! So much fun, so close to home

9-5 work week is over. Time for family time and coding.