Kodsnack20 Elo 2024

Kodsnack 598 - Tiny dopamine hit, with Jack Cheng

Fredrik talks to Jack Cheng - author and creator of the iPhone note capture app Bebop. Jack describes where Bebop came from and how he built it, and how and why Copilot and other AI tools became integral parts of the workflow.

Being aware of the maintenance cost of each decision, keeping things focused, avoiding building yourself into a bloated corner - sometimes even deciding certain things don't belong in your app.

Coding on the side, needing to balance the time you have? Use it to your advantage!

Jack also talks about the other apps he uses for working with notes and writing, and how different apps feel right for different types of writing.

(Yes, Obsidian once again makes an appearance.)

Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!

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Links

Jack
Detroit
Jack's books
See you in the cosmos
The many masks of Andy Zhou
The slow web - Jack's blog post
Copilot
Captio - the app Jack used which let you email a note to yourself
Obsidian
Nvalt
Fsnotes
Zapier
Bebop
Jack's post introducing Bebop
Ruby on rails
Typepad
Swift
Swiftui
Objective-C
MVC
App intents
Visual studio code
Xcode
Figma
Cursor is the editor with more builtin LLM features
Support us on Ko-fi!
Morning pages
Jack's newsletter
Ghost
Highland 2
John August
Cot
Share extensions
Testflight
These days - Jack's first novel, financed through Kickstarter
Robin Sloan
Robin's text about how an app can be a home-cooked meal
WWDC - Apple's yearly developer conference
The Humane AI pin
Rabbit
See you on the bookshelf - Jack's podcast about creating See you in the cosmos
Booksmitten
jackcheng.com
Jack on Instagram, Threads, and Mastodon

Titles

Addicted to the slot machine of social media
Just spin up an Iphone app
A specific thing I want to build
Advanced auto complete
Gold coins along the way
Freeze all these features
The maintenance cost of every decision
The speed of capture
Tiny dopamine hit
Use it to your advantage
Immediately useful
You can't not be cliché
Today as the title

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