I always take a ton of screenshots when I build something, and annotate them thoroughly. That, and tons of testing, is pretty much the only way to be sure it's all smooth and polished.

Different product strategies, I'd say, that should be well-considered based on your target audience.

Working through the unilateral exit in Arké. I think it can be pretty simple in the end, but there's a lot of complexity under the hood to work through. It's an essential part, as this is what lets you recover your bitcoin even if the server that facilitates your payments goes away (or turns into a diamond-covered skull, I heard that could happen).

Wrote something about the goals for Arké. Feedback appreciated. https://gbks.substack.com/p/arke

Nice to get an update from our electric utility provider that electricity prices will be 8.8% lower next year. More of that, please.

Of course. But would you really want that when you can also switch to corn?

And one more Arké update, all about the mobile UI. Take a peek. Would you use this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-aZlS7a6NM

That’s the default Apple system font for serifs, New York. Haven’t even looked into anything custom there yet.

Sharing some super half-baked screenshots of the Arké iOS app. I am porting the desktop screens to work across both MacOS and iOS, with almost all logic and components being shared. Just piecing things together roughly with lots of visual and interactive tweaks and polish to come. That's going to be fun and it's where the real UX finessing is.

Could very well be.

AI sucks at time estimation, maybe in an opposite way that people do. Says 11-14 hours, and is done in 10 minutes 🤷.

Arké now has a (very rough) mobile app that is best friends forever with its desktop companion. Thanks to new @nprofile1q... Bark FFI Swift bindings. Here's a shaky setup-and-link demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVLt4o_GdpQ

What do you think?