Boy's Shorts

GitHub entered me into their sponsored developers program!

This means you can easily support me through my repos or the projects I contribute to. 👯‍♂️

I made a page where I feature the generous people who sponsor me: thanks.boy.sh

The Timeless Beta release was covered by ifun.de and mentioned on Jamie McHale’s solomentalhealth.com. 🥳

It’s hard to describe how good this kind of coverage feels. You can enjoy using an app you’ve built, but only when it reaches other people do you experience a sense of accomplishment.

The extra attention has increased downloads by a lot, which is good. I also got some more feedback, which is great.

At some point I will need to implement a form of monetization though. With most other apps it feels natural to lock some features behind an in-app purchase, or limit use after a set period of time.

Timeless tries to alter your behavior, limiting features might stop that from happening, reducing the chance of someone actually purchasing the app to zero.

On the other hand, making the app paid-upfront prevents someone from experiencing first hand the sense of freedom the app promotes. I would have to sell the app purely on its story and experiences from others. That’s tough.

I’m leaning towards pro features with an in-app purchase. I could add advanced scheduling, make the clock that appears when idle a paid option, allow more fine grained segment control with the pro package. If you have suggestions, I’m all ears.

Christian Tietze mentions the release of Fira Code v2.

I’m a fan of Input Mono myself, but the ligatures for !=, ==, <= etc. look pretty cool! Switching over to try this out.

After the macOS Catalina and/or iOS 13 Betas broke iCloud Drive, I removed the app from my Windows computer. Several duplicated folders and files had appeared that weren’t visible on my Mac and mobile devies. Something was definitely wrong and I didn’t want to expose my files to it.

Now that Apple seems to have rolled back the changes, I re-installed iCloud Drive for Windows from the Microsoft Store. I’m surprised to note that it’s a completely different app from the one I uninstalled. It’s a lot more informative, showing whether files are downloaded or linked in ‘the cloud’ and it feels more stable overall.

If you’ve been using iCloud Drive on Windows for a while, it’s worth checking if you should switch to the version on the Microsoft Store.

Sliders season four is starting off a lot better than I thought it would. Maybe it’s because my expectations were so low, but I’m enjoying the first few episodes more than the ending of season three.

From what I read online the last two seasons are supposed to be terrible. After production was taken over by Sci Fi Channel, budgets were cut and the stories became more action focused. I did notice an increase in Kromagg activity, which I’m personally not a fan of.

Season five changes the main cast again. I’m not sure if just Remmy is enough to drag me through those final episodes. 😅