adamwiggins

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Why Sync(adamwiggins.com)
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Sync Conf(syncconf.dev)
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by adamwiggins 2y ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions, starting with common research t
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by adamwiggins 3y ago
I'll join the chorus here and say that Turbo Pascal was my stepping stone from beginner tinkering (BASIC on Apple II and DOS) to professional development with C. The dev environment was the perfect mix of "serious and you can make
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Our team's experience has been the exact opposite: Catalyst let us create a beautiful, fully-native Mac app[1] that shares the bulk of its code with its iPad counterpart. A few bumps here and there but overall a good experience. [1]:
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Heroku pivoted from an online code editor (or "FileMaker Pro for the web") to a git-based development platform. https://www.slideshare.net/adamwiggins/epic-pivot
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Ok, fair critiques. We obviously see many things differently (e.g. software being static vs requiring maintenance) so probably not much value in arguing further. But in /r/changemyview parlance I'll award you a partial delta.
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
In that case you'd still have full access to your documents. In keeping with local-first values the complete and canonical dataset resides on your devices (Macs/iPads). Sync service outage or total shutdown would result in your no
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Changing while you write sounds surprising. All ink engines have some amount of retroactive smoothing going on, but typically (and this is the same for Muse) it should only be the last 50ms or so of data, and often that part is still hidden
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
In a word, latency. Everything feeling responsive and tactile is a part of the (tablet part) of the Muse experience. You can see the latency tests for various tablets in a table partway through the essay, and compare those to the human fact
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Also on the (very long) list of things we want to build. It's more challenging design- and technology-wise than you might imagine, due to the canvas model and relatively arbitrary content folks can bring in. (Actually realizing this wi
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
I'll add to Wulf's note that we on the team are privacy-conscious, listen to us talk about it here: https://museapp.com/podcast/18-privacy/ We designed the architecture to allow full Signal-style e2ee, b
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Indeed. Victor's work is the gateway drug to tools-for-thought; it certainly was for me. Read at your own peril, the rabbit hole goes very deep :-)
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Yes, we're curious to see how pure desktop usage evolves. A big part of the whole "thinking workspace" concept is the more relaxed posture of tablet use, the ability to scribble on things, etc. That said, I've used Muse
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Thanks for the review. Agree with most of your points here, briefly: iPhone app is just capture right now, intended for "I just had this thought that I need to muse on later." We don't market it much because it's so limi
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Much appreciated. Sharing the journey is a big part of what has made this project fulfilling. As another commenter pointing out, the Mac app alone is somewhat limited without the iPad as a kind of ink/annotation accessory--but I'm
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
We researched the name heavily as part of registering our trademark. There are hundreds of hardware/software/internet products and services that use the word "muse" in their name somewhere--and that's true for almos
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
I'm a big believer in tools that make us feel good about our work. Pretty handwriting as an output is in that category. You'd be surprised how much engineering goes into point simplification, bezier smoothing, etc. One of our team
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Text formatting (possibly Markdown) for sure. Code highlighting is something I would personally like but depends on how many software engineers decide to become members. Latex is probably out for its complexity, but in the long run some kin
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Best bet here is web apps like https://kinopio.club/
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Evernote is a good example of software that I think had a lot of promise but has decayed in quality and performance over time. No self-hosted sync service at the moment. At the moment we've got our hands full with making it work well i
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
> if I stop paying for sync, I still have my notes and a fully functional product The same is true for Muse. When your membership expires (or you cancel it) the app reverts to free mode, which allows you to read, copy, and export all you
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
> local-first sync can easily support multiple schemes and let old versions run without overhead to devs I'd love that. Ink & Switch has done extensive research on how to enable this with p2p technology etc. Our industry isn&#x2
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
A core concept is the idea that creative professionals live a multi-device life. Desktop computer for focused productivity, tablet for relaxed reading and thinking, phone for capture and lookup on the go. https://museapp.com&#x2F
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
I get your metaphor, but I think it falls down because "write once, deploy anywhere" was a slogan for Java and it never really fulfilled that promise. And yes, like anything in life there are top-quality options which tend to be m
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
We do have a rudimentary search via OS integration already: https://museapp.com/handbook/ipad/#to-search But yes, this is due for improvement / upgrade and is on our roadmap.
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
I'm a big fan of text files--my "thinking workspace" for over a decade was a folder full of .txt and .md files and vim. But as more of my reference material and creative inputs are images, PDFs, websites, etc that became limi
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Obsidian is great, and they are similarly priced to us ($10/mo for sync). We felt that local-first sync is a core feature of the product, and to exclude free users from that would be leaving out a huge amount of the value. So we opted
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
You might want to read the original post--a core feature you're paying for is local-first sync, which is explicitly designed to solve a lot of the problems with iCloud. I do want to see a world where there is a generic syncing service
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by adamwiggins 4y ago
Yeah, truly an unsolved problem. Obsidian seems to have found a good path--free for the core product, $10/mo (standard price for prosumer apps) for sync. But we felt like sync is a core feature and we really want to give it away for fr

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