The easiest way for people to like working with you is having a baseline level of competence.
Lucas ✦
@lucas.love
Plant Mom. Currently working on https://amore.computer. On some days I work on https://macrowave.co, https://kompressor.app or https://pagi.lucas.love. Previously: https://futureland.tv Currently looking for new freelance opportunities.
Listening to parallele radio on Macrowave this morning. macrowave.co/parallele-ra...
parallele radio by @parallele-radio - Macrowave
Listen to parallele radio by @parallele-radio on Macrowave. Live radio streaming.
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Trying to explain the thinking about the last couple of videos.
Lucas ✦@lucas.love · 20h agoIntentional Computing and why I am in the process of replacing my phone. lucas.love/100/066
If coding is really solved, what excuse do companies like Anthropic have to ship a gigabyte slop job chat app that reserves 23 GB of disk space right after launch? If coding is solved, couldn’t they just make it as small and performant as possible? I am puzzled. 🧩
PSA You can use Stripe as a merchant of record (Stripe Managed Payments), so you don't have to worry about handling taxes, fraud or chargebacks. Amore has first-class support for this. It was never this easy to sell your Mac app.
You can setup an automatic CI/CD pipeline using Amore. Every time someone in your team pushes to main or adds a release tag, Amore can pick up your latest commit and publish a new version for you. You can use multiple release channels like beta/stable to decide who gets access to your releases.
GitHub - AmoreComputer/release-action
Contribute to AmoreComputer/release-action development by creating an account on GitHub.
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In addition to distributing #Kompressor my image converter app, via the App Store I now distribute it directly via Amore as well. It's currently 50% off as part of #IndieAppSales. You can use the promo code INDIEAPPSALES2026. kompressor.app
Steve Jobs demoing Core Animation at WWDC 2007. A wall of a hundred playing videos. Instant zoom. Instant tag search. No dropped frames. Comparing that to how a SwiftUI settings panel feels on Tahoe today just shows how far things have slipped. lucas.love/100/058
058 - WWDC 2007
A Steve Jobs Core Animation demo from WWDC 2007 popped up in my feed and it stopped me cold. A live wall of playing videos, instant zoom, instant tag search, zero glitches, on 2007 hardware. Then I c...
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In celebration of #IndieAppSales I added the ability to enter promo codes to Amore's checkout experience. If you use AmoreLicensing in your app, you can use this to offer discounts and promos for your apps.
It's done! A tiny 3D object renderer for the @play.date written in @swift.org. Inspired by @tsoding.bsky.social's amazing 3D graphics video. ❤️
Lucas ✦@lucas.love · 2w agoThis is the first episode of me implementing a simple formula to render 3D objects on the Playdate. lucas.love/100/051
Can we just agree that these crazy Fable/GPT/Kimi one-shot generated video games are absolutely meaningless or is anyone actually playing them for hours on end?
Whenever I’m feeling blue, helping someone else is the fastest way out of it.
There are over 100 apps on #Amore now. I made a video about 5 great ones today. lucas.love/100/045
045 - 5 Beautifully Crafted Mac Apps (Not on the App Store)
Five beautifully crafted Mac apps, all shipped outside the App Store with Amore. Invoicing, battery health, Wi-Fi debugging, markdown previews, and clipboard history. A lot of them are free, some are ...
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I don’t see a good reason for normies to use ChatGPT/Claude instead of Siri on iOS 27. It’s so well integrated, and the UX is mostly the same. It’s pre-installed and free. Kind of a no-brainer.
On iOS 27 public beta since this morning. Good stuff. New Siri is pretty interesting. Curious how it will evolve this beta cycle. Will add deeper integration via App Intents to #Monologue and other apps in August. ✨
Look, I’m an open source maintainer, and if you want people to use that FOSS software as an alternative to that proprietary software it’s good to understand why people wanted to use that proprietary software in the first place and why they might be hesitant to switch It’s not because users are dumb
iOS to Android messaging without 3rd-party apps is finally decent thanks to RCS. lucas.love/100/043
043 - RCS
RCS (Rich Communication Services) is the modern replacement for SMS, and it flew under many people's radars. Since iOS 18, iPhones support RCS messaging with Android, and iOS 26 adds end-to-end encryp...
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Allow me to re-introduce an update for the Niche design website nichedesign.press
It's day 32 of my 1 video per day for a 100 days video experiment today. I added a video gallery of all the videos I recorded so far to my website.
Did the people who wrote these ‘this is why I don’t use AI for coding anymore’ blog posts actually end up using it less?