30+ years ago, I used to do Freeware because I enjoyed building stuff that others found useful. (I also met my wife because of that 🙂)

Today, I think most people won't download it because it's free. Or, they'll wonder if I'm stealing their data or training AI with it 😛

#Coding #Freeware #Musings

Exciting news! Trip Tunes was named App of the Year by What the Tech! 🎉

Thanks to everyone who’s downloaded, shared, and supported the app.

To celebrate—and to help with your New Year’s travel—I'm running a 2X tapes sale. Perfect time to relive the mixtape magic! 🎵🛣️

Check out the broadcast: wbbjtv.com/2024/12/26/what-the-tech-app-of-the-year-trip-tunes

When you say SciFi, people might think rayguns and aliens. For humorous SciFi though, I don't know if they'd have a clear idea.

To me, it's Reagan and aliens — not the crossing borders without visas kind, but the extraterrestrial kind 😛 How would Ronald have reacted to aliens?

#Writing #Humour #ScienceFiction

I had a vivid image of a scene (and the text to accompany it) as I was halfway inbetween sleep and wakefulness last night 🙂

While my ability to paint isn't great, I want to try painting the scene first, and then try to write the story ...

Will I get to it today? No idea 😛

#Writing #AmWriting

"The Wild Robot" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29623480) is beautifully animated, emotional, and heart-warming.

Sure, the story might not make sense logically, but who wants to talk logic when a story makes you smile, laugh, and want to hug somebody? 😛

#Movies #English #Hollywood

If anybody's looking for a post-holidy light read, I'd like to offer a light sci-fi novel for your consideration 🙂

It's about a man on the run from his wife's wrath, a bunch of bounty hunter clones, and assorted other miscreants:
books2read.com/b/mB1zAM

#Reading #Author #FediBooks #Bookstodon
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Been trying out Windsurf as a VS Code replacement since some folks raved about it.

But I'm getting really tired of Windsurf because it seems to randomly recreate files that I'd deleted/renamed. I don't want no zombie files 😛

#Coding #IDEs #VSCode #Windsurf

Wrote close to 4.5k for the Flutter kids book yesterday but it's become a massive chapter 🙂 Time to move on to a new chapter I guess?

#Writing #Coding #Flutter

Somebody quipped that "Sir Lanka Files" (https://books2read.com/b/mgw00v) is not fiction since it's about an island nation ruled by a guild of thieves 😛

I started the book during the aragalaya. Have a sequel in mind but I will have to wait a couple of months to see where things go?

#Writing #LKA

While the siren-call still lingers to do some coding, I finally managed to get going on the writing today 🙂

Got 2k words written on the third chapter of my book on Flutter development aimed at kids. I wonder if I'd rather be writing fiction, but this is something I enjoy too.

#Writing #Flutter

Is it just me or are the re-works of old movies just crap?

Just tried to watch "Hellboy: The Crooked Man" and "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" and they were both so inane and boring that we gave up after a little while on both.

#Movies #English #Hollywood #MovieUpdates

I've been using Bluesky for a couple of days now and it's rather interesting that some accounts that I really liked on Twitter (like QI and Engadget) are either not present on the Fediverse or tried to create a presence but became inactive after a bit.

But on Bluesky, they are very much active.

So why the difference? Is it a lack of interaction? Or the percieved fragmentation due to how Mastodon works?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky

So ... based on feedback about the Flutter book, pivoted from an adult/programmer oriented approach to be more kid/beginner friendly and re-wrote the first two chapters to fit the new approach.

I was set to start on the third chapter when yak-shaving struck again 😛

I started thinking about a BlueSky client because apparently BlueSky engineers are overloaded and can't add the ability to filter out reposts. And I wanted it ....

So that's where I am today — coding. Hopefully, will get back to writing later today?

#Writing

So, I suddenly have the time to write, but have three different books clamoring for attention 😛

1. A Flutter programming book with 2 chapters written
2. A completed novella that needs to be totally re-written
3. A new novel in a new genre that's suddenly very interesting

What to do?

#Writing

The audio book for my second novel, "Sir Lanka Files" is now available! It's about the humorous misadventures of a private detective in a future island city ruled by a guild of thieves. More details here: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DQ63PSMR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-424788&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_424788_rh_us

Shout out to Brad Derry (https://bradderryvo.com/) for the great voice work! If you need somebody to voice your audio book, he's the one! Check out the book sample (at the link above) for Brad's excellent work!

#ScienceFiction #Humour #AudioBook #Writing #FediBooks #Bookstodon

If you like scam/con movies, you might enjoy "Mechanic Rocky" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27191250).

Most movies have one or two layers. I generally look for a second layer in any movie since I'm just that kind of person 😛This one had three layers and I almost missed the third one because I kind of relaxed after figuring out what the second layer was. So if you like that kind of mental acrobatics, this one will definitely appeal.

#Movies #Telugu #Tollywood

"Kanguva" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22036406) is such a horrible, pointless movie. There's so much lack of logic and pointless scenes just supposed to evoke some emotion that I don't know where to start.

I read the bad reviews and thought "There has to be something in the movie which redeems it" and watched it. But I was wrong. There is nothing to redeem this one and I probably should have saved myself some time by not watching it 😛

Only reason you might want to watch it is if the laughter caused by the absurd situations, the bad creature effects, and the bad graphics is something you'd enjoy.

#Movies #Tamil #Kollywood

I have availability coming up in January. If anyone is looking for an iOS developer, please let me know. #getfedihired

"A Man on the Inside" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26670955) is one of the better US comedies to come out this year. Ted Danson is brilliant in the show and the show itself is funny, insightful, and often very poignant. I loved the whole show but I loved the final episode the most — it just had so much feeling and emotion.

I really hope that there's a season 2.

#TV #US #English #Comedy #Netflix

Check out my audiobook about a man on the run from his wife's wrath after selling her dog to a Martian: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DL7S8Q24/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-418986&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_418986_rh_us

Shout out to Brad Derry (https://bradderryvo.com/) for the great voice work! If you need somebody to voice your audiobook, he's the man! Check out the book sample (at the link above) for Brad's excellent work!

#ScienceFiction #Humour #AudioBook #Writing #FediBooks #Bookstodon