I’ve long been on the fence about doing any sort of dev, maybe a little bit of bash scripting here and there, but nothing much with UI and certainly not a compiled app.
Bring on AI and the fact that I can learn to code by asking all the dumb stupid questions that would have a human running away thinking I’m the dumbest person on the planet
So you start off with a question or three and go from there. I had the idea of writing my own simple pomodoro timer. I wanted control of the times available and how long the breaks would be. It also had to be super simple, nothing fancy.
Things you need to consider start getting deeper and deeper. Learning the very rudimentary basics of Apple’s Xcode IDE have been fun. The amount of settings for publishing to an App store are truly terrifying. But for your own machine it’s fairly simple.
So now I have my own pomodoro time that I can make do whatever I want. In total this probably too about 3 hours to complete when you add up the 10 minutes here and there.
While I have no plans to publish this, if you want it, let me know. It’s been a fun sideline project over the course of this week and one I might repeat if I feel the need.