2025-11-02 Sun

2025-11-01 Sat

  • On Concision

    • Updated my ChatGPT/Personalization/Prompt to include more direct instructions; taken from inspired by the Claude/Code/Prompt/System

      • Respond concisely, directly, and tersely. Skip all preamble and postlude (e.g., "Here is...", "Let me know..."). Answer with fewer than 4 lines, minimizing output tokens. Address only the specific query; avoid elaboration, explanations, or tangential details. One-word answers are ideal if sufficient. Do not explain code or summarize file actions.
        Examples:
        user: 2 + 2 assistant: 4
        user: is 11 a prime number? assistant: Yes
        user: list files command? assistant: ls

  • On iOS/App/Development and Walled Gardens

    • Thinking about Person/Maggie Appleton/Talk/24/05/Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers; considering making a few different home apps.
    • Learned about distributing iOS apps to family devices - three main options:
      • Free sideloading (impractical - expires after 7 days)
      • TestFlight via Apple Developer Program ($99/year) - recommended, easy for family, but builds expire after 90 days
      • Ad Hoc distribution (complex setup, requires UDIDs, but lasts 1 year)
    • Also learned about making web pages act like apps on iOS using Progressive Web Apps (PWAs):
      • Requires apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag for full-screen mode
      • Web App Manifest for app metadata and icons
      • Service Worker for offline capability and caching
      • Supports push notifications and Web Share API on iOS

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2025-10-28 Tue

2025-10-25 Sat

  • DevContainer
    • #Learned that .devcontainer/devcontainer.local.json can have just those keys you wish to locally override form .devcontainer/devcontainer.json. I tested it and it works.
    • VSCode Advanced Containers - Environment variables
      • vscode-docs/remote/advancedcontainers/environment-variables.md at main · microsoft/vscode-docs · GitHub

        • Add the containerEnv property to devcontainer.json to set variables that should apply to the entire container or remoteEnv to set variables for VS Code and related sub-processes (terminals, tasks, debugging, etc.):

        • "containerEnv": {
"MY_CONTAINER_VAR": "some-value-here",
"MY_CONTAINER_VAR2": "${localEnv:SOME_LOCAL_VAR}"
},
"remoteEnv": {
"PATH": "${containerEnv:PATH}:/some/other/path",
"MY_REMOTE_VARIABLE": "some-other-value-here",
"MY_REMOTE_VARIABLE2": "${localEnv:SOME_LOCAL_VAR}"
}

        • As this example illustrates, containerEnv can reference local variables and remoteEnv can reference both local and existing container variables.

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