"The Lean Startup" was recommended to me about 10 years ago in the short phase when I was trying to build a startup (cool prototypes, no business model or product market fit, and starting the project with half the seed money I thought I needed to get it off the ground made it a short project).
It was a big influence on me and something I recommend and quote often.
I'm curious if your perspectives on the topics of "The Lean Startup" have changed I the era of AI tools. Particularly curious what you think about the role of MVPs to test a market.
This has been on my mind the past few weeks because of a recent experience during a company hackathon:
A few years ago I gave a talk about prototyping and MVPs at the Audio Developers Conference and in this talk to explain the concept of an MVP I proposed a silly idea for an audio plug-in (that replaces a singers voice with the sound of flamingos) as a demonstration of how we might test that there is a market for this plug-in before building it. I gave some examples of how we could test this like a landing page MVP, concierge MVP, etc.
Recently during the two days of this company hackathon I was too busy to do a project of my own because I was helping on-board colleagues with Claude and getting sucked into some leadership meetings. During the demos meeting I decided to try to build my voice replaced with flamingos plug-in and built a working plug-in in under two hours and this got me thinking:
If I can build a real functioning plug-in that a user can try in their host application in less than two hours why would I use non-software MVPs to test a market when I can build working software just as fast or faster than I could setup a non-software MVP a few years ago.
Of course there is more to learn from "lean" than just MVP (I'm also a big fan of the andon cord and the 5 why's)
(to anyone commenting on vibe coding I looked at the code and while not all of it was ideal I wouldn't consider this "vibe coded" and for serving the purpose of an MVP a couple things in the code that were a little funny are not a problem)
Definitely, AI makes certain kinds of MVPs a lot easier to produce, so that's great. Unfortunately, some people are being encouraged to outsource their own thinking to the AI. For them, it doesn't seem to make the learning any faster. In fact, I know some people that it has made the learning quite obviously slower.
This reminds me of a trick I came up with for mixing Python and C++ in the same file using overlap in their syntax so the file is valid for both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwYjI9cJd0
As a musician myself I am also quite protective about my hands but also a daily emacs user. The biggest ergonomic improvement you can make on a standard keyboard is to remap your control key to be command (most regular emacs users I know do this). At work I use a Kenesis Advantage keyboard which allows me to use my thumbs as modifiers which is even more comfortable.
To answer your question, if you are not looking for particular LISP I would checkout Racket as I think that has a non-emacs IDE.
I am not the OP for either GitHub issue nor have I responded yet; I just found these when doing a little digging after our legal department responded that they were hesitant to approve using WebView 2 in our products. Later a may join the new thread to provide that data point.
Just started reading it, but I noticed that in the chronology, in 1979 for C with Classes “public/private” is listed. Was “protected” a later addition?
I'd have to disagree; I view programming as an art similar both to music composition but also very much like painting---this may require expanding your definition of panting from the classical sense to the Dada sense of found object sculpture as a form of painting/making-your-own-paint (can't find citation, but there is a good Marcel Duchamp paper about making your own paint I was trying to find---but late for work!).
Apparently a Linux-based system was a contender for iPhone OS:
> Around 2005, Jobs faced a crucial decision. Should he give the task of developing the device’s software to the team that built the iPod, which wanted to build a Linux-based system? Or should he entrust the project to the engineers who had revitalized the software foundation of the Macintosh? In other words, should he shrink the Mac, which would be an epic feat of engineering, or enlarge the iPod? [1]
When this article first came out, I made the assumption that this statement meant iPod OS was Linux-based---also feel like I heard that somewhere else---but I have not found any sources to confirm this. Anyone else know?
Age 2, Mac Plus. One of my earliest memories---possibly the earliest[1]---is the night my parents first set it up and had a box of disks they were using to install software on a 30MB external SCSI HD. I remember really wanting to use it, but I had to wait until the morning because they had to learn how to use it first.
I think we started with System Software 2.0(4.0), but it might have been an earlier version. Soon updated to System Software 5.0 and MultiFinder (and 4MB of RAM for multifinder). I remember the upgrade to System Software 6.0, because my copy of Dark Castle stopped working---eventually I figured out that there was a copy of System and Finder on Disk 1 and that I could boot from that instead of the external SCSI HD.
My parents bought the computer for office use in their jewelry design/manufacturing studio; so I could use it there when they were doing bring-kid-to-work-daycare, but they also often brought it home in the Mac Plus carrying case. I have fond memories of using the How to Use Your Mac tutorial: the mouse tutorial and the start was fun and something I could easily learn by watching; I remember the Finder tutorial that followed challenging as it had text instructions so at first I couldn't do it on my own and would need help---I think trying to do the Finder tutorial played a big part in learning how to read.
I remember using Mac Paint a lot, but also watching my mother work on the computer and wanting to learn what she was doing: Mac Draw (for jewelry design), Excel[2], and CAT IV (CRM). My pediatritian was also a Mac user and would go to Mac World and would give me disks with SWAG games he got.
Later when my parents got a Macintosh Performa 575[3] to replace the Mac Plus, they made the fatal mistake of setting it up at home---I wasn't going to let that multimedia machine go! Luckily they made a good parenting decision and decided it would be better for my sister and I to have access to the Performa since they could get by a little longer on the Mac Plus at their office. Eventually they brought the Performa to work and replaced that with a PowerMac 7200/75.
[1]: Side note: Around this time also saw 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time; my father got it for me as a 1st birthday present.
[2]: I liked using simple expressions for calculations, but mostly making graphs; lots of pet graphs (i.e. 1 cat, and various numbers of fish).
It was a big influence on me and something I recommend and quote often.
I'm curious if your perspectives on the topics of "The Lean Startup" have changed I the era of AI tools. Particularly curious what you think about the role of MVPs to test a market.
This has been on my mind the past few weeks because of a recent experience during a company hackathon:
A few years ago I gave a talk about prototyping and MVPs at the Audio Developers Conference and in this talk to explain the concept of an MVP I proposed a silly idea for an audio plug-in (that replaces a singers voice with the sound of flamingos) as a demonstration of how we might test that there is a market for this plug-in before building it. I gave some examples of how we could test this like a landing page MVP, concierge MVP, etc.
Recently during the two days of this company hackathon I was too busy to do a project of my own because I was helping on-board colleagues with Claude and getting sucked into some leadership meetings. During the demos meeting I decided to try to build my voice replaced with flamingos plug-in and built a working plug-in in under two hours and this got me thinking:
If I can build a real functioning plug-in that a user can try in their host application in less than two hours why would I use non-software MVPs to test a market when I can build working software just as fast or faster than I could setup a non-software MVP a few years ago.
Of course there is more to learn from "lean" than just MVP (I'm also a big fan of the andon cord and the 5 why's)
(to anyone commenting on vibe coding I looked at the code and while not all of it was ideal I wouldn't consider this "vibe coded" and for serving the purpose of an MVP a couple things in the code that were a little funny are not a problem)