john

yea, it feels like the web has much less friction towards staging, at least as compared to iOS

the navigation systems also seem to play a role. no real concept of a "router" in iOSland that you can extend for testing

31.05.2025 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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nice lil pattern here

make a lot of small, tailored frontends for different dimensions of an app, and have these serve as interfaces for testing

seems like a great "stage" before production

31.05.2025 01:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

i really love frontend for the visual feedback loop of seeing the output of code in graphics and interactions

is there anything similar for backend?

i miss seeing things

21.05.2025 01:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i was doing local-first, non-UIKit iOS developing only because i didnt want to learn servers or web tech or AutoLayout + InterfaceBuilder

now im doing all three lol

i never even conceptualized what a test might look like

now im the official tester for my team

21.05.2025 01:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

one month now spending my 9-5 as a badge wearer in a cubicle

mainly has involved fighting python environments and struggling with node

paying a sort of penance for the years i spent doing a cheapened solo form of design engineering

21.05.2025 01:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

my assumption worth testing here is that sorting/organizing/structuring and metadata work best as a supplementary layer

i dont think its worth trusting any provider to conform to a common format, so i think you're left extracting from, rather than shaping within

21.05.2025 01:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Frontmatter Dendron is a local-first, Markdown-based, hierarchical note taking tool. It is meant to help you create, organize, and collaborate on knowledge bases of any size.

i dont mind the files approach, but it does demand some way of scraping and structuring periodically

"structured extraction" should be akin to backing up your files

could use key-valued or yaml-style frontmatter/backmatter (something human readable/writable)

wiki.dendron.so/notes/ffec28...

21.05.2025 00:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0