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I finally made Listless available in the App Store. I don’t expect it to be used by anyone other than me but it’s a free app so you don’t really have much to lose if you do decide to check it out. If you’re curious why I even wanted to build a to-do list app, I also wrote a blog post. It goes into a bit of detail about the rationale for Listless as well as my experience using LLM-based coding agents to make it.
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I mentioned two weeks ago that I had immediately started work on a second app. This one is a collaborative crossword app that I’ve been meaning to create for ages. I love doing crosswords but I find simple ones too easy and the more complex ones too frustrating. One thing I discovered during the pandemic is that if I work on a crossword together with another person, that drastically increases the ones I can complete. Since then I’ve been wishing for some kind of app that would support that kind of solving. I had originally thought I might create a web app but I could not work out how I could do it without using a server (there are peer-to-peer technologies like WebRTC but these still require a server to at the very least establish the communication). A native iOS app can get around these problems by using iCloud (or at least that’s my working assumption).
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A couple of weeks back, John started attending a programming class every second Saturday. People with freakish memories might remember that I tried enrolling John (and Emma) in a programming school back in 2024. I wasn’t especially happy with that program; mostly because I didn’t feel it was worth the price. In all honesty, I’m not sure this one is better but it is entirely built around Minecraft so John is of course intensely interested in going each time. The main reason I thought it might be a good idea was actually as a way to meet children his age with similar interests. For that reason, I haven’t roped Emma yet (she’s got plenty of friends from school).
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I started intermittent fasting again and while I haven’t been as disciplined as I have been in the past, there has been a reduction in my weight (which is nice). I’ve done my best to pair that with exercise on the treadmill I mentioned two weeks ago. So far I haven’t done any actual running yet but have instead stuck to walking. I think it’s going well. Whenever I spend money on something for exercise I often have a burst of interest that quickly burns out. It’s too early to tell whether that pattern will repeat all the way through but the burst of interest part is definitely holding true.
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Patrick Willems has an amazing video essay about music videos. It’s part history lesson, part 90s eulogy and part silly sketch as he delivers the essay in sections that each recreate a classic music video. Oh, and my Bluesky post about it got reposted by Willems which was nice.
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Australian electronic dance act, Pnau, has a new single called ‘Tu Corazón’ (Apple Music) that I’ve been listening to intensely. If the name ‘Pnau’ doesn’t mean anything to you, Wikipedia tells me they produce music in the genres of ‘electronic’ (OK) and ‘wonky pop’ (wat?).
