Love the idea, would be great to see a modes to switch to circular interface for the Time Round 2. Definitely lots of potential for rapid iteration on new watch faces and apps!
I tried Elixir a few months back with several different models (GPT, Claude, and Gemini). I’m not an Elixir or BEAM developer, but the results were quite poor. I rarely got it to generate syntactically correct Elixir (let alone idiomatic). It often hallucinated standard library functions that didn’t exist. Since I had very little prior experience, steering the models didn’t go well. I’ve since been using them for JS/ TS, Kotlin/ Java, and a few other tasks where I’m much more familiar.
My takeaway was that these models excel at popular languages where there’s ample training material, but struggle where the languages change rapidly or are relatively “niche.” I’m sure they’ve since gotten better, so perhaps my perception is already out of date.
Cool app! It’s quite polished and scrolling is smooth on a 13 Mini. Some quick thoughts:
- I didn’t see any loading indicator, and some videos took multiple seconds to load
- When I scroll up then back down, I get a white gradient at the bottom of the screen that goes away after a few seconds
- I’d like to be able to expand the description text, but clicking it didn’t do anything
- Without signing in, my initial feed was almost entirely ICE videos
I run a podcast app for flip phones called PodLP. Revenue hasn’t always been $500/month, but averaged over the past 5 years it’s been over $500. It’s been primarily from sponsorships (podcasts get featured on the homepage to get more listeners), although next year looks more uncertain so I’m looking at other avenues.
As a counterpoint, consider reading Kevin Kelly’s “The Inevitable.” I also avoid most social media and have an aversion to all things “smart,” but these may actually be “inevitable.” In a capitalist society, these forces feel inevitable because there’s no Anubis balancing the scales. Only local decisions, often short-sighted. When demand is being created in a market, people will compete to capture it any way possible. Some of those ideas will last, and others will be a flash in the pan. It’s not clear to me that if you reran the tapes of history again, you’d get a significantly different outcome that didn’t include things like short-form video to exploit attention.
Are there viable options? I run Asahi on my M1 Air and it performs quite well, but certain software like Android Studio has issues and hiccups. I’d love a decent ultrabook to replace my Air, but I hate Windows and got overwhelmed with reading Reddit forums to know which PCs will and won’t work with Linux. I don’t mind doing some setup, but I’d rather not be disappointed by non-functional or missing drivers for WiFi, Bluetooth, display, etc.
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