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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:47:24 JST Glyph

   Feels good to be back at home with a working computer this week to provide a much more substantial update to patrons:

   https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-123479738

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:47:23 JST Glyph

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     I am doing a bunch of background maintenance on projects like Twisted and Klein right now too, but my *focus* at the moment is to really bring production-quality mac desktop app development to the Python masses. I want to smooth over the roadblocks required to get something that just looks like "an app" out to users, without weird glitchy graphical artifacts or strange user-visible compromises.

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     Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:08:05 JST Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3

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     @glyph
     I see, so maybe something a bit more "meta" than https://codebase.show/projects/realworld

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:08:06 JST Glyph

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     • Ronald Oussoren

     Part of this is streaming every week over at https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official to try and illustrate how this type of development can actually be made pretty normal and tractable without any special skills or tools, and it's just a matter of hitting certain roadblocks and working through them. There are lots of folks already working on tooling, (shout out @ronaldoussoren and @freakboy3742, giants upon whose shoulders I stand) but not many visibly working on end-to-end real-life demonstrations.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:08:06 JST Glyph

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     I guess what I'm trying to do is to make, like, a demo… scene… for user-facing app developers. macOS is my initial focus because in many ways it's *easier* than Linux or Windows, but I definitely want to make my way over to those too, eventually.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:19:43 JST Glyph

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     Currently I am focused on this micro-utility https://github.com/glyph/pinpal as a vehicle to get the kinks ironed out, and it's getting really close. I am optimistic that I will actually be making a website for normal users (well, as "normal" as a user wanting to regularly memorize secure passcodes gets I guess) to download and use this thing within the next couple of weeks.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:13 JST Glyph

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     I also write about software (and sometimes politics and philosophy, or all three) at my blog — please feel free to peruse the archives over at https://blog.glyph.im/archives.html

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:13 JST Glyph

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     If Github is more your thing than Patreon, please feel free to support over at http://github.com/sponsors/glyph instead; the benefits are transferrable, and I'm happy with either.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:14 JST Glyph

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     But not just packaging of "python", all these apps include Twisted and Cryptography (even if they don't really need them) in order to demonstrate the ability to leverage existing knowledge within the ecosystem, to have a no-compromises Python development environment in the context of something that lives on your computer every day.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:14 JST Glyph

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     Anyway, if this seems like a promising direction for development that you would want to support, I have a Patreon https://patreon.com/creatorglyph and you can subscribe for as little as $1/mo. (At this point I'd honestly love to get lots of $1 subscribers rather than a few at the higher tiers; I am looking to pay for health insurance in a sustainable way here, not have a blowout startup.)

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:14 JST Glyph

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     You also get credit via https://github.com/glyph/sponcom if you are interested in that, and hopefully I'll figure out how to roll that into 'About' box credits at some point as well

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:15 JST Glyph

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     Pomodouroboros was designed primarily with #ADHD folks (like myself) in mind, but we also live in a world which is increasingly trying to steal our focus, and diminish our agency by reducing the intentionality of our time with our devices. I will be happy if I can provide tools to push back against that incoming tide of distraction and dismay.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:15 JST Glyph

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     It's also important to me to build these things in Python, because while I want to build integrated, native experiences that leverage the platform to provide the best possible experience, we also live in a world where every platform is shifting sands beneath our feet, and I want the core application logic to be:

     1. open source, so it can be inspected & modified by users for their own needs
     2. in a vendor-neutral language, so it's not glued to one particular platform or corporation by default

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:15 JST Glyph

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     This is also why I am so keen to sand off the rough edges in a *practical* context packaging-wise. Python is an easier language to learn and hack on than (e.g.) Swift, an thus, in theory, more empowering, but the packaging stuff is a huge stumbling block, and users can (optimistically) easily spend 3-4x as much time fighting the build tools as actually writing any code, whereas the vendor's tools just kinda work out of the box.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:16 JST Glyph

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     Next up will be https://github.com/glyph/pomodouroboros which you can already download and kinda use, but which is stuck in an unfortunate limbo of perpetual second system syndrome. Having shipped one thing and hopefully not getting distracted by packaging & integration issues all the time, though, I am confident I can get to a non-Python-programmer friendly version of that, too, soon after.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:16 JST Glyph

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     To be clear these projects are not themselves activism and I want to take pains to say I'm not couching them that way, but it's also important to me to build things congruent with my values. And I do feel pretty happy with that, for a few reasons. On an infrastructure level, these things are open source — I may want to try to charge a nominal fee via the app store or gumroad or something to make them more self-sustaining, but having the ability for users to contribute is important to me.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:44:16 JST Glyph

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     But on an application level, I think these do useful things as well. I feel like we're moving into a world where users are more and more left to fend for themselves for their own security; we increasingly need to rely on systems where we *cannot* expect a benevolent corporation to reset our passwords for our accounts, we need provider-independent security which *really* requires us to be able to keep several complex passwords memorized, and PINPal can help with that.

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