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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:48AM (#49655334)
this is from 2021....
Re:How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @01:27PM (#48282863)
this story is wildd
Re:What I Learned Making an App for My Family on Thursday May 07, 2026 @06:24AM (#48047666)
also fwiw for small things like this, unless you want to really learn image recognition, just send the image to gemini-flash-3 or something. Sure it's 0.5-1s latency, still faster than entering it manually and it's pretty cheap, I'd reckon it's under the free tier at least for you and your family.
Re:What I Learned Making an App for My Family on Thursday May 07, 2026 @06:16AM (#48047598)
Oh nice! kinda funny story : I wanted the exact same thing as you a while ago so I used 'inhaler usage' on apple health app as a proxy for cigarette counter.

Also i know cigarettes & vapers do not always mix, but man I do always dream of creating a vape that can be set to a limited number of puffs/hour. It's probably the only way of actually controlling it or at least warning you, like you mentioned.

But still, fun that we can make these apps so easily now!

Re:What I Learned Making an App for My Family on Thursday May 07, 2026 @05:35AM (#48047325)
im curious, what did your app do?
Re:What I Learned Making an App for My Family on Thursday May 07, 2026 @05:32AM (#48047310)
Flutter was good, but now with Liquid Glass™ I find react native (specifically expo) using expo-ui far far better at designing apps that match their native look and feel.
Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:03AM (#47788824)
eh nothing actual mission critical, however managing my home server has become a breeze and kinda fun, I've given my openclaw/nanoclaw a personality whose sole job is to tend to my server and enjoy it.

I have a bunch of telegram notifiers and bot templates laid out already as well as the whole arr stack.

So say a friend wants to track a tv show, I just ask openclaw to track it and setup a bot to notify them, it manages everything and sets it up cleanly (most of the time). They also have access to the public media directory so they can ask the bot when the next episode will come out or if some other show is available etc. Again, not super critical but building out this level of ux would've taken me a lonnnng time, it's pretty nice to have some company in managing my server as well which is a kinda lonely experience. Fun stuff.

Finally WORKING!!