Vibes

Over the past few months, I've rewritten, thrown away, half-finished, and completed enormous amounts of software. And it's a genuine joy to be able to simply try things out that I would never have had the patience or experience to tackle by hand. Since around May or so:

Bits und so and Related Stuff

• Bits und so App 2 for iOS (and Android Beta)
• Push server for it
• iOS app for myself to manage it
• Show notes: Runko collaborative editor
• Silly episode artwork
• Bug fixes for in-app purchases in PHP
• Bug fixes for WordPress 2
• Redacted
• relive.tv
• Slack integration for it
• New video contribution app for macOS
• Official Mumble: Apple Silicon build
• Notarization and Sparkle for it
• New chapter marker with MIDI integration and MOTU interface
• Show clock on an ESP Cheap Yellow Display
• Show clock for macOS
• Completely new Mumble client
• iOS version of it
• bitsundso.plus with Revolut integration
• Workflow tools: modernized FCP X integration, EBU loudness, MP3 encoding, optimized resampling
• Installed Matrix, ditched Slack
• Transcripts!

Outside of Bits und so

• Balkonkraftwann
• Paywall for it using RevenueCat
• Gas station and EV charging app
• Weather server using DWD data
• Bug fixes for sprechkabine.de
• Automatic double-ender mixer and de-drifter
• Server admin/DevOps for the rest of us: backups, deployment, upgrades
• Made friends with GitHub
• This very blog engine
• Electronic invoicing using LaTeX
• PDF stamping tool for macOS
• Scanner support for Fujitsu
• Receipt printer connected to a Raspberry Pi

And there are probably dozens of other things missing from this list.

The catch, with Balkonkraftwann for example: How finished is finished enough to ship it? The onboarding wizard is still rough around the edges, how and where should the paywall go, and how am I supposed to handle support for all the weird and wonderful solar setups out there in the wild?

Regarding the other iOS apps: flawed concepts, difficult to polish, but whatever.

One thing I've still been putting off with the Bits und so app: migrating in-app purchases to StoreKit 2. Discussed it extensively, but haven't found a good solution yet.

We've come an incredibly long way since those first steps with the now-discontinued Phind.

Tim made his own Google Earth in a week.

Ad Astra!