James' Audiolog: Indie.am

YouTube Shorts: A TikTok Clone in the Making It's happening—YouTube is finally cloning TikTok with their new beta product called Shorts . However, the user interface (UI) for Shorts is, well, not great. It's not amazing. About a year ago, I created a little clone of the TikTok UI just for fun. During that process, I realized something crucial: for the experience to work, the video must fil...

The Real Reason Behind Building the A.M. App I wasn't sure where to share this, so I decided to make it an audio blog post. I realized I've never really discussed the true motivation behind creating the A.M. app. Initially, I was captivated by the idea, but there was a deeper reason that drove me to develop it. A Journey into Mobile App Development The primary reason for diving into this p...

Indie Maker Update Here's my Indie maker update! I've been working on changelog.life pretty much nonstop for the past week. I've been playing around with it on and off for the week before that, making a bunch of updates. Domain Drama You might know about my changelogging.com drama. It's still unresolved. I've paid for and registered the domain, but Verizon is not explaining why...

Integrating Plausible.io Analytics into a Change Log I recently completed the integration of Plausible.io analytics into a change log. The idea behind this is to simplify the process by using Plausible's analytics instead of building a custom solution for my customers within their dashboard. Why Plausible.io? Initially, I was linking to a public Plausible.io page. This worked well, but Plausib...

What Do You Call Your Untitled Draft in Figma? Hey designers, let's talk about that one Figma file we all have. You know the one—your untitled draft. It's like a digital junk drawer. It's where you go when you just need to resize a JPEG or crop a little bit out. Maybe you want to quickly change a background or compress a scanned document that's too large. Does this sound familiar?...

So I'm a frontend developer in 2021, over 10 years of experience building websites - since I don't know 2005, 2006, 2007, and I still use bootstrap and people ask me sometimes, you know, why I still use bootstrap. Why don't I use something more like Tailwind or have I heard of Tailwind or have I heard of Bulma, and I get a laugh out of that every time I hear it. I don't use it, but I like it, but...

I'M prototyping something new today. Basically, I want my product to change log to live on Twitter. It might be a necessity to have a page link to your site where or an in bedded with it, where you can display recent updates to the application you can do. Pop-Up windows - I don't know that doesn't matter as an indie maker, I don't want to have to go somewhere special to post out updates to my chan...

Starting seeing some traffic to an interesting thread on Twitter I participated in, so I thought I would share a few stories about SaaS billing, specifically for B2B companies. The big thing I learned about that surprised me the most: checks. You might say, but we don't accept checks. Yes you do. You will have customers google your address, google your name, and mail random checks to any address t...

So I took a break this week and built a thing called space. He plays Pokémon, it's a playable, Pokémon red instants. You can play from my space her profile. This is inspired by Twitter plays Pokémon because it's self inspired by twitch plays Pokémon for years ago. What it is, is it's a game boy, emulator, playing Pokémon red running on Wassom boy, which is a emulator written and go compile the web...

So I got an invite to host rooms on Twitter spaces are completed on boarding. Yesterday I tried things out. I want to share my initial impressions of the app. I think I've been in for five large rooms that I host a room yesterday for a few hours and just let people drop in serendipitously to try things out and I feel like. I have a pretty good idea of the current state of the user. Experience of t...

American Airlines Confirms UFO Contact Over New Mexico American Airlines has confirmed an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO) over New Mexico. The incident occurred on Sunday as the aircraft was en route from Cincinnati to Phoenix. Details of the Encounter Date and Time: The sighting took place at 1:19 PM Central Time. Location: The aircraft was flying over the northeast corner of N...

Apple sounds: Loading, Funk, basso, sosumi, logged in, submarine, mail sent, new mail, put trash, empty trash, invitation, FaceTime ringer, FaceTime accepted, FaceTime hang up, AirPods connected, AirPods disconnected, AirPods low battery.

Embracing the Mask I used to feel weird going out without shaving, but now, thanks to the pandemic, we can wear masks when we go outside.

So now, every time that you record a new audio log, the transcriptions are turned into subtitles, which are applied in real time to the playback in the app. But I also use the subtitle files to generate a video file with FFMpeg, and video file shows the subtitles in real time overlaid in the audio. That way, if you share the video file to Twitter or another social network, and somebody doesn't tur...

So here's my indie maker update today, I'm not doing anything really interesting, I'm just doing something for fun. I am doing a transcription point map for the transcriptions that come from the iOS app when you do a new recording. Basically iOS will give you updates in real time for the completed transcription. It doesn't give you timestamps. So it's a somewhat interesting problem to create that...

Ok, here's my big in the a.m. update for the day. I'Ve updated the website that you get automatically the default theme middle of improvements to that completely rebuild it from scratch, so that it would be a decent looking website that you could share with your friends share on social media etc. lots of improvements, it should feel really Polished also, I added the guides to submit your RSS to th...

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey

So I spent a full day, probably making icons and making an icon picture that works on iOS 13+ in Cordova. It was a really interesting process. I learned a lot from it. It was all kicked off, because a friend of mine pointed out that there was an interesting trick that clubhouse used to indicate that their servers were down. They change the app icon and it kind of indicated that the servers were do...

Oh, this sucks Twitter plays Pokémon was just taken off-line, I'm not sure if it was like a server scaling issue or Twitter or Nintendo took the soft line, but before the game actually ended and people could actually beat the game, it was taken off line by the Creator, I have a sucks if you hadn't seen it. I created a little player inside of a game boy where you can play the Twitter plays Pokémon...

The Twitter plays Pokémon game finally completed today after six weeks of continuous play, the avatar updated every 15 seconds when somebody commented up down, left right AB, select or start on a specific Twitter thread penned by Ashe screen shakes. So today my side project was Twitter played pokémon.com. Basically I created a video player of the entire stream, so you could play it back at any spe...

An audiolog published on Indie.am by James Futhey

So I spent basically all day playing around with audio and beds in Twitter. I initially thought that it wouldn't work, but it turned out that was just the documentation was pretty bad and I was pretty dumb. But if you're listening to this now, it's probably on Twitter and you're, probably on desktop or you'll, see the fall in bed or mobile web or you'll also see the fall in bed. The mobile app cap...

A software park sounds a lot like a place where you take your line of business programs to go socialize with other software and do their business behind the bushes.

A Day in Northeastern Taipei: Cherry Blossoms and Perfect Weather The weather was truly delightful today, with temperatures around 77 degrees. Taking advantage of the pleasant conditions, we decided to visit a park in Northeastern Taipei to witness the cherry blossoms. It seems that Sakura season has begun here in Taipei. Interestingly, in Tokyo, the cherry blossoms typically start blooming at the...

Here'S my Indie make her update for Monday February 15, so I spent a good bit of time yesterday tweaking the audio encoding pipeline. I thought about it for a while, and I just turned up the audio quality settings to optimize more for higher quality output. Instead of optimizing for better compression, I just thought you know it's really small and while the app is like a really small scale, it doe...