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Every time a dev or pseudo-dev builds a home-grown app for exactly what they need and no more (sans data tracking, external ownership, lack of control), the end-user programming spirits glow brighter ✨ See also, Robin Sloan’s home cooked app: robinsloan.com/notes/home-coo

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Jonas Downey

@jonasdowney

· Aug 20

For the past 8 months my daughter and I have been writing a haiku every evening. Along the way, we also made a little app to make creating and sharing them more fun. Not sure if or when we’ll ever ship it, but it’s a joyful thing. Would you use this?

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composer:

oh hello! this is
a friendly poetry app
for writing haiku

8:02 AM · Aug 21, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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For those new to EUP,

@inkandswitch

has a great canonical write-up: inkandswitch.com/end-user-progr Originally born out of Bonnie Nardi’s ethnography work in the early 90’s. Her book “A Small Matter of Programming” is a classic

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End-user Programming

A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.

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built an app like this 2 years ago and finally decided to let it leave test flight jail lol. Simple water tracking app w/health kit integration

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‎quench tracker

‎A simple water tracking app that syncs data with Apple Health Kit

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I did this a few weekends ago: building out a very simple app over a couple hours is something that more people ought to be able to experience, in my opinion!

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Chris Rabl

@crabl

· Aug 13

So, last weekend I decided to build out a "Storyworthy" app: a place to house the stories that I write each day, and where I can go to reflect, re-read, and replay the formative moments of my life. It's certainly not perfect, but I've used it every day since then. (5/6)

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I wrote and use this little Android App to train Listening-Comprehension of French numbers. It speaks a random number, let you type it in and checks, whether it is correct.

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wholeheartedly agree and are working hard to add to democratize that glow via their open source #moldabledev tool.

Sean DeNigris

@SeanDenigris

Aug 23

End user programming, what many early pioneers (e.g. PARC) dreamed would always be the case, has been available to all (e.g. Pharo and other open source Smalltalks). What GT brings to the party is a rich IDE/GUI experience that is too irresistible for the pop culture to ignore

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Hard agree! But... what *is* a "pseudo-dev"? If make code, you're a dev.

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