I'm working on an Arabic-language Electronic Health Records system (moving to Syria in about 2 months and planning to market to clinics there). No current plans to release as Free/Open-Source, but the stack is Elixir/Ash/Phoenix/LiveView/Bootstrap.
While working on it, I realized I should build a small Hex package for authoring and playing demos right in a Phoenix app (it's very easy to author scripts with AI or by hand):
I’m by no means a marketing expert, but showing your early users respect, courtesy, and-dare I say it-loyalty, seems intuitive to me but also less and less common in today’s Anything As A Service (pronounced like “ass”) tech environment. I don’t miss months-long sales cycles, prohibitive up-front costs, oppressive support contracts, etc., but I do miss having companies that will bend over backward to retain long-time customers. Everything has become a transaction, and every customer is just a fraction of a company’s overall revenue. I’m not dissing GitLab as I am not (yet) a paying customer, just commenting on the state of software in general.
I recently deleted Facebook from my phone, and convinced my wife to do the same. We still have our accounts, but will only access FB via a web browser. Getting off WhatsApp will prove trickier, because we both have relatives overseas.
App Clips seem like they would be very convenient and useful if you're visiting a medium-large city and doing things you didn't know there was an app for.
Django has outgrown its humble beginnings. I am building a fairly sophisticated single-page business application using Django along with Django REST Framework, and have yet to run into a situation that made Django feel "crufty."
While working on it, I realized I should build a small Hex package for authoring and playing demos right in a Phoenix app (it's very easy to author scripts with AI or by hand):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087389