Tom Donohue

It took this post to make me realise that as programmers we really can build almost anything we want or need. We don't have to rely on big tech. robinsloan.com/notes/home-coo…

@GithubProjects Or, you could always use a spreadsheet. It might not cover everything, but at least you won’t have to worry about hosting costs or security vulnerabilities!

Self-host a $1m personal finance app for free.

I refuse to pay $100+/year for a budgeting app, so I just made my own, in Google Sheets. It still handles CSVs from my bank and draws pretty charts too. But without a subscription. I wrote about why simple solutions are the best: tomd.xyz/spending-track…

Week 2 building my workout app - super-late-but-better-than-never Big milestone: app now comes with pre-loaded workouts, instead of starting empty. Cos nobody likes a blank screen. Plus other boring work. But getting closer to something people could actually use. Exciting.

Getting back into building in public. Creating an outdoor workout iOS app for people who hate gyms (like me). Been using it myself for 2+ weeks and it's already changed my workouts. This week: battling WorkoutKit, SwiftData and concurrency🏃‍♂️📱😩

@mlaithv Love it

Metronome 2.0 - embracing tapping into advanced features

@Hyperoptic your service status form doesn't work

Dario Amodei's Machines of Loving Grace essay - but without JavaScript enabled

Why is TuneIn so obsessed with NFL. Like, do you not have any other interests

@peaklass1 I want to walk down that path

In our rush through life, moving faster, working smarter, we miss so much. We miss the drift of seasons and the gentle ebb and flow of nature. We miss patterns, colours, changing light. We miss beauty and quiet. Sometimes we all need to stop and just watch the clouds roll.

Publishing my first iOS app for review! What a palaver. Why do I need to publish a Privacy Policy for an app that collects no personal info whatsoever

@peaklass1 Perfect light!

Walking home along the country lanes after a long day, I could smell woodsmoke and autumn in the air. The only sounds were the sheep and birds and my own footsteps, heavy with a quiet tiredness, knowing I'd earned a fire, a good book and a lot of cheese. #peakdistrict

All I want to do is publish a little utility to the App Store

@northernassist Utterly useless.

@iamfredrik_ Tech tutorials, blog posts, that kind of thing. Good luck with the launch :)

@monodot Cool! You are very welcomed. What kind of content do you usually write?

I think I've made a beast 🚀 Tired of rewriting your content into social media posts? Transform a blog post or any written content into multiple engaging social media posts by a few clicks.

@talia Honestly I will have moved onto something else by Wednesday

@talia Never! I shall not hear of this nonsense

And here’s how the app looks today - quite pleased with it so far 😀 Honestly, Claude is the superpower that’s helped me get to this stage. Soooo often I would get lost in yak-shaving or some other pointless task. Well, not any more.

“you’re an absolute prick, Gary” get me a Gary immediately

how does zoom actually get worse with every release