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ambiamara reviews and mentions

• Overthinking
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2022

  Interesting. Whenever I talk about Quality, the downvotes appear. It's almost as if people are actively against the concept of high-Quality software.

  This is not some idle boasting. This is a project with a great deal of history.

  Here's the app, itself, in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ambiamara/id1448933389

  It started off as "SpeakerBeeper," in ObjC, ten years ago. Here's the codebase for that: https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/speakerbeeper

  It then became "X-Timer," in 2015, after Swift came out. Here's the codebase for that: https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/x-timer

  This is the current codebase for the "AmbiaMara" app, which has been out for the last three years or so: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/ambiamara

  The codebases show a lot of learning and growth.

  Yeah, it's just a silly timer, but it's a good one. I use it constantly. I basically wrote it for myself. A lot of my work is like that.

• The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2022

  I have always been skeptical of many "new-fangled" interfaces, like touchscreens and HUDs.

  I know that, many years ago, cars started to display speed and tach displays as digital, and that was fairly quickly reversed, because people kept seeing their speed as a jumble of characters (look at digital displays that change rapidly).

  I know that a number of auto manufacturers are starting to ditch touchscreen, for knobs.

  I've found that haptic feedback is helpful. I use it (as well as a "retro-style" LED display) in my latest little timer app[0]. The earlier versions of that app were a lot more complex, and I ended up removing a great deal of the flexibility. So far, people have given me good feedback on the new "Fisher-Price" interface.

  [0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/ios-apps/ambiamara/

• App breaks past the MacBook brightness limit to 1600nits
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2022

  I don't get into the OSS religious arguments.

  I consider all my stuff to be open source, even the couple of projects that are "source available."[0] I think that it's important to make it all available, if I will call it "open source," but there's no reason, in my mind, to make it so that people can just take my work and use it commercially.

  That said, I generally like to use the MIT license, because I don't like coercive licenses. I just don't like it when people try to coerce me, so I won't do it to them.

  I am currently working on a non-open-source/non-source-available project. Considerable parts of it are open-source (MIT license), but the core app code, as well as a modified variant of my BAOBAB server[1], are proprietary and locked away.

  [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/ambiamara

  [1] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...

• Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2021

  I just publish it on GH, without a distribution license[0].

  These folks are experts. They probably know exactly what terminology to use, which screens to optimize, etc. Just because they are scammers, doesn't mean they are stupid.

  They could probably actually make legit money, giving classes on the Apple App Store process.

  [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/ambiamara

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