Andy Brice
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- Member since
- July 2015
- Topics started
- 36
- Total posts
- 341
- Last active
- 2 days ago
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I made one reference to my software on the ' Software that supports custom attributes and can generate all combinations of them?' thread, that I thought was relevant. A couple of other people commente...
Stacksocial will be taking a big chunk of that $30. And the vendor aren't going to get an upgrade revenue if they are giving a lifetime sub. I wonder how they are going to be able to afford to give de...
Generating all possible combinations of the members of 2 different sets is more commonly known as a "cross join" or "cartesian product". The results can get very big very quickly if you have non-trivi...
Dr Andus wrote:
> I imagine in a life-or-death combat
>situation, such as a street fight, having a mobile iOS or Android app
>with a powerful search function would be critical.
"Wait while I consult...
I think a flowchart would be your best bet. There must be any number of those to choose from.
Winterfest 2022 sale
1/16/2023
Just a reminder that the Winterfest sale finishes on Tuesday 17th Jan:
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
It looks like it won't be extended. but some of the coupons might be good for an ext...
I use KeePass to store passwords on Windows and Mac. I would never trust storing passwords on a third party server.
>There is a
>clipboard leak in the Linux versions because KeePass uses a Linux
>lib...
Winterfest 2022 sale
12/28/2022
Various software from Indie vendors is now on sale at:
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
This includes my own Hyper Plan (flexible visual planner) and Easy Data Transform (no-code data wran...
Saw this on HN and thought some of the hardcore CRIMPers and/or Obsidian users might be interested:
https://github.com/bramses/bramses-highly-opinionated-vault-2023
HN discussion at:
https://news.y...
Seeking the productive life
11/7/2022
I think I would rather be somewhat less productive than carry a 'man bag' (dinosaur that I am). ;0)
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Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
https://www.easydatatransform.com
Seeking the productive life
11/4/2022
Perhaps you should try his cinema usher style, typing while walking setup:
https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/43/2019/02/07-popcorn-rig1.png
(even he seems to be too embarassed to do this in pu...
Seeking the productive life
11/3/2022
This a long essay by Stephen Wolfram(of Mathematica fame) from 2019 about how he stays productive. It touches on topics such as file organization and note taking. I thought a few people here might fin...
Dating other task managers
10/1/2022
Spotted on Hacker News:
https://evantravers.com/articles/2022/06/30/dating-other-task-managers/
HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33019629
I thought somebody might find it of inter...
Sarah wrote:
Hello,
>
>I am intrigued by block based apps and wanted to explore some apps
>before I dive all-in.
Do you mean graph as in boxes and arrows or graph as in function graph? If the form...
>I don’t see this being a particularly viable business to be in
It certainly isn't a business that I would like to be in!
The main competitor to all 3 of my products (PerfectTablePlan, Hyper P...
There is no way that Equals is going to replace Excel for 99.99% of Excel users. 0.01% of Excel users be might still be a market worth pursuing though.
Summerfest 2022
6/23/2022
The bi-annual sale of quality software from independents is now on. You can now get 25% off a range of software including Hyper Plan and Easy Data Transform (both mine), Tinderbox, Scrivener and Devon...
More and more downloable software is going to subscription, with the charge led by Microsoft and Adobe. You can see why the vendors like it, especially for products like MS Office that (as far as most...
You need to be clear what you mean by a 'lifetime' licence.
Sometimes vendors have a 'lifetime' licence where you pay once and get all upgrades free forever. This is almost certainly a bad idea (for ...
Winterfest promotion
1/10/2022
Just a reminder that the 25% off Winterfest sales ends on the 11th Jan:
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
--
Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
https://www.easydatatransform.com
Best wishes for 2022
1/3/2022
Here's hoping that 2022 is better than 2021.
Cheers!
Andy Brice
Aibase
12/24/2021
Don't know what the software is like (it might be great), but the https://www.aibase-cs.com/ website looks like a shareware site from 20 years ago. They could probably double their sales, or better, w...
Winterfest promotion
12/20/2021
Amontillado wrote:
>Still, I have to wonder - is it the One True Way to plan a story or a
>novel?
A true CRIMPer should always have more than 1 piece of software for any given task. ;0)
Winterfest promotion
12/20/2021
The Winterfest promotion is on at:
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
Lot of quality software from small companies on offer. Including Outliner Software favourites such as Tinderbox, Devonthi...
Black Friday deals
11/27/2021
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Not sure about any Black Friday deals, but Tinderbox and many other
>"artisanal apps" usually go on sale at the end of the year (as well as
>mid-way through the year).
This is ha...