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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
@Mappletons
📣 Request for examples 📣 Mini apps and bits of software you’ve built just for yourself and/or friends and family. Things that don’t scale, aren’t meant for others to use, & valuable just for your specific, snowflake use case. Ideally custom built, but could be jerry-rigged
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$MIGUEL Piedrafita
@m1guelpf
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I'd really love a thread of more people who build these kinds of apps, it's always such an amazing source of inspiration
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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
@Mappletons
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The outpouring of replies here has been abundant & beautiful. The moral of this story is EUP is alive and well among devs. And ✨everyone else✨ also needs access to tools that allow them to build personal, private, snowflakey software. The slow march towards personal computing
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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
@Mappletons
EUP = End-user programming Regular people with serious use cases and needs that self-made, personalised software could help solve. But who have no interest in becoming professional programmers. Extracts from Bonnie Nardi's book "A Small Matter of Programming" (1993)
Screenshot of written text: "It is helpful to understand that a key difference between professional programmers and end users is that programmers like computers because they get to program, and end users like computers because they get to get their work done."
Screenshot of written text: "no matter how much designers and programmers try to anticipate and provide for what users will need, the effort always falls short because it is impossible to know in advance what may be needed."
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Kate Wilson Foy 😷🇦🇺𐃏
@Dramagirl
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I wondered whether everyone would understand that great term. We use it all the time in Australia. See also "stringy bark and green hide," outback "jerry-rigging" pre- duct taping days. 🦘
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rrix
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my python3 personal websites are driven by a sqlite database generated using emacs, and pandoc. anyone *could* use it, it is self hosting and open source, but, gosh, a website backed by emacs?? engine.arcology.garden lets me publish any page from my notes to one of my domains
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