Minimal Social Media

Store in your own silo No ads Privacy through encryption and authentication Interactions such as commenting, saving, and liking, without breaching silos User controlled algorithms I thought #4 would require a Git-like fork and merge, but now I’m not sure. Access to the data layer, either through Git or a format such as JSON, might be enough.

Psalms For Worship Status Update

In 2010, I released The Book Of Psalms For Worship for iPhone and iPad. A lot has changed in almost 10 years! New devices, new APIs, and even a new programming language. In 2019, I began migrating the app to Swift. I still like Objective-C, but additional developers might join, or I might open source the code, and the future of the platform is clearly Swift. To help with the conversion, I’ve been using Swiftify, which is an automatic conversion tool.

Hi! I’m Phil. I think a .plan file is just a list of things that don’t happen, and this is my dev diary.

In psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. I think I might restate this as, “Incompetent people are also incompetent at evaluating their level of competence.” Or, “Part of competence is understanding your level of competence.”

Another good read from a HN comment: The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil. The problem: Poor countries dream of finding oil like poor people fantasise about winning the lottery. But the dream often turns into a nightmare as new oil exporters realise that their treasure brings more trouble than help. Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, one time Venezuelan oil minister, likened oil to “the devil’s excrement”. Sheikh Ahmed Yamani, his Saudi Arabian counterpart, reportedly said: “I wish we had found water.