Technology as disability aids ~> home-cooked apps for your specific needs.

A home-cooked app is an app you make for yourself to solve your own problem or to entertain you. It can be shared with friends or family, but its not for mass consumption. You know how in ye olde days people used to make like, idk, furniture for themselves? Like that.

“just get it working”. they aren’t meant to scale. it’s not even meant to be open sourced and shared (though it could easily be! todepond activates…)

one of the things that sometimes gets people into programming. it often happens that ppl need a tool, so they make it. we only hear about it when they decide to publicise/distribute that tool, but it happens many more times in the home-cooked, internal-tooling way.

Making home-cooked apps is great: - you can make exactly what you want - lets you skip lots the hard, thinking about other people, parts of software development, because the only requirement is does it work for you? - chance to keep yer shit out of Big Data’s hands - fun!!

Now for the fun part where he shows us lots of examples. - New-tab pages (1 page of HTML) - pinboards (i like to call this… a website) - tracking ious - online versions of physical decks of cards - to help with carer timesheets - a web dashboard for ur dog with epilepsy - reminders to help you with calling friends, being positive, reading things… wait a second - shopping list apps - someone made a program that kept their gpu above a certain temperature because their screen flickered if it dropped below??!

You might end up making a Domain Specific Language (DSL) which is a… language for your specific domain.

Main thing is u gotta solve ur problem, not anybody else’s. All the ‘good developer stuff’, you ignore that unless it really applies to you.

Make the basics simple, then make incremental progress. Do the minimimum working meal in a week(end), then add onto it.

Ideas: - I should add archiving links to my reading list, so im not a victim of link rot - i should make my shopping list app