I don’t even think any apps that use the API are allowed to use “Spot” in their name.

It cannot begin with “Spot” or be similar to “Spotify” in sound or spelling.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/design

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How do you do the ingredients for a recipe? Does it understand “1tbsp” and things like that?

Logseq is worth looking into as well. You’d have the same sync conundrum as Obsidian, and can solve it the same way too.

More specifically, what’s the connection to Reddit?

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A couple of reasons:

1. Who would contribute? Banks are highly regulated and sometimes deal with complex products that most Devs don’t have a background on. Even most Devs in banks rely on a team of business analysts, designers etc to shape the requirements. Add on top of that the general negative perception of banks, I can’t think of a large open-source community forming.
2. Competition. Bank’s primarily compete with each other. They all offer very similar products, and any advantage they can gain by developing proprietary software will be explored.
3. Third-party apps. Banks use a TON of third-party apps behind the scenes. A lot of times they will purchase licenses for existing products and then customise on top of that.
4. Outsourcing. Even when they are building the app “in-house” they may have outsourced the development to another company, and will then just maintain the finished product.
5. Banks move slooooowly. As it’s a highly regulated industry, every deployment needs to go through a ton of red-tape. An exploit found in public might take weeks to be resolved internally.
6. Reward is not worth risk. It simply isn’t a priority and they can’t see any benefit for doing it. It’s more likely to cause a reputation risk than not.

I didn’t realise 12ft.io has gone down but I believe their original slogan was along the lines of, “for every 10ft wall, there’s a 12ft ladder”, hence the name.

This policy was last updated in March, 2023.

My recommendation would be to go down the web dev route to start because it’s very easy to create things that you can share easily (everyone has a browser, but not everyone has python installed on their machine, or wants to open an executable). That can be a great motivator.

I still think App Academy’s free bootcamp is one of the most comprehensive resources to go from zero to making small web apps. It’s very hands-on and they have over 200hrs of material, discord community, and it was updated about a year ago. However, it can be quite daunting and you need to have good discipline to keep going.

https://www.appacademy.io/course/app-academy-open

Otherwise, as someone else mentioned, freecodeacademy is a good beginner resource.

I quite like Obsidian too. Markdown note app that has desktop & mobile versions. You can create templates and have it so that a new note using a template is opened automatically when you open the app (e.g. for daily notes). It also supports a lot of different community created plugins.

I sync across android & linux via google drive for free, otherwise Obsidian also has a paid sync feature.

This is cool! I’ve been using DeepL for the longest time but their app has become extremely sluggish lately to load. Any recommendation for engine that works best for English/Spanish Spanish/English?

What’s the main motivation for an open-source alternative?

It’s an interesting idea. I’m guessing the largest hurdles would be: trust, funding, and legal. A large part of it I think depends if it’s being run altruisticly or as a business.

Uber/Lyft and others have come under intense legal scrutiny all over the world. The drivers typically need to purchase & obtain a license to be able to drive, and come into agreement with local taxi operators.

What motivates the drivers to drive, ie is this a job or are they volunteering? Does each ride cost or are the rides free? If the rides are free, are the drivers doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, or are donations covering the rides? If rides aren’t free, who is processing those payments? Who decides what drivers get paid and what customers get charged?

Lastly, as a ride-operator, how do I build trust with my drivers? As a customer, how can I trust the instance I am with? If something happens in a ride, is there someone I can contact? Can I get refunds? What if something even worse happens, who is on the hook?

Lol, who turned the lights out?

I was going to suggest OpenCollective but I’m not sure if they have any type of voting mechanism. It does provide financial transparency though.

A bit ironic that they host their code on Github, no?

Haven’t used PHPTools, but I use xdebug in VSCode for php debugging

I’m using Breezy Weather and really liking it so far. Has a good widget as well.

I do feel kinda bad for people. There’s very few jobs left where you don’t interact with a computer in some form or another, and the reality is that it’s not for everyone. Of course most people can benefit from using these “tools” but since they’re always upgrading, there keeps being something new to learn.

Personally, I love technology and playing around with new tech. However, if I’m great at sales or a lawyer or something, that’s where I add value, not in knowing how a computer works. So I can see how people get frustrated with it.

In the end it boils down to, pretty much everyone needs IT, but IT doesn’t need everyone. Think about it, when was the last time you worked at a company where an employee didn’t have a computer or need a computer for some task that they do?