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    New App/Tool

    By Michael, in General,

    I will be coming out with a free new app/tool. I have stripped out a part of the toolbox, the Dev Toy Box, and will be releasing it as a stand alone app. I actually do use these tools quite a bit, but i've noticed toolbox is starting to have issues with php 8.2+, this is largely due to issues with in the IPS 4.x framework (where they are still largely doing things the way you would've done them in php 5.3, that are now deprecated in php 7+). I don't have any inclination to continue to try to fix IPS shortcomings any longer (to clarify this, i think any and all php software should be able to run with E_ALL enabled without suppressing anything. currently IPS doesn't allow this, as it throws a lot of deprecation warnings). Anyway this isn't meant to be a IPS rant, but an announcement to Dev Toys.
    Dev Toys will take the Dev Toy Box from the toolbox app, and allow you to run it without the toolbox. I can see some limited use outside of development for this app. 

    it will have several tools, including converters, encoders/decoders and generators. I personally use the images converter to convert between png to webp and webp to png or various other formats. 
    Hopefully it will out over the next week or so. again it will be free. 
     
  • Michael

    Pricing Strategy

    By Michael, in General,

    I've decided to give the "subscription" model a chance. I've come up with 3 tiers, with a some additional "packages" to go along with them.
    Tier monthly:
    this tier will cost $10 a month and will allow to run any of my available apps on one site. if you need for multiple sites, you can buy additional uses for $5 a month.*
    Tier Quarterly: 
    this tier will cost $25 every 3 months and will allow to run any of my available apps on one site. if you need for multiple sites, you can buy additional uses for $10 every 3 months.*
    Tier Lifetime:
    This tier will give you access to all my apps for a lifetime on one site. it will cost $400, if you need additional sites, you will need to purchase monthly or quarterly tiers. this subscription will not offer additional packages for multiple sites. This package will also have an elevated support to it. it will also be available to limited quantities. 
    Additional Packages:
    Monthly Addon needs to be purchased if you plan on running any of the apps on more than one site. this package will have a premium of $5 a month Quarterly Addon needs to purchased if you plan on running any of the apps on more than one site. this package will have a premium of $10 every 3 months. Setup Addon have me setup each app on your site elevated support for one month $75 one time fee per site** Premium Support*** 2 hours of premium support $20 monthly * this package will be of limited support and it will also not be perpetual, if you let the package to lapse, the apps will disable themselves.
    ** this isn't per app, just per site. so if you want the apps to be installed per site and have the appropriate add on, this will acquire an additional charge.
    *** each tier/package will offer limited support. support can be a timely and costly thing. there are times my app isn't the direct cause. typically the backtrace from the error logs will tell me exactly what i need to know, other times a more involved investigation is needed. I am considering this move involved investigation to be considered premium support. basically if i can not reproduce it on my local hosts (i have 3 of them using docker, in various configurations to test on various platforms), then i will consider this to require additional support/time. 
    This is what i'm thinking, let me know what you guys think. let me know if you think they are too expensive, too ambitious, too whatever or not enough. if you have any questions, feel free to ask or if you have suggestions, feel free to leave them down in the comments.  
  • Michael

    Streaming?

    By Michael, in General,

    Would anyone be interested in me doing my work as a streaming session? like a few hours a week, just having me talk about what i'm doing, get an idea of what i do, how i do it and possibly why i do it. 
    it would give you all a chance to see a progress of an app/development and get to know me as i'm sure i will try to make it entertaining, with stories and jokes and what not.
    let me know what you all think about this idea. 
  • Michael
    I am curious should I update the wsl2 guides i have on the site, they are a few years old and are on windows 10. windows 11 changed a few things and the guide will work for windows 11, but the video isn't all that great. even tho i provide the text and links i use in the video, the biggest complaint i get is i didn't zoom in on the terminal window so they could see what i was typing in. so if i was to redo the video, i would make sure to zoom in the terminal and offer a more comprehensive setting it up, along with how to get custom URL's to work, along with getting certbot certs so you can use like a .dev domain.
    let me know if you think i should update these guides  
  • Michael
    Recently I've replaced Github's copilot with tabbyml. it is an opensourced, locally run ai assistant. it works fairly well, it does have some limits and its not quite as good as github's copilot. but imho it has several advantages over copilot and other ai assistants for coding. the biggest benefit to me is that it is free and offers most of the features the other do. the second is the privacy of my data, it doesn't feed back to the models as i understand it, so your code is safe.
    https://tabby.tabbyml.com/docs/getting-started/
    the installation and using of it is pretty straight forward. the more powerful nvidia gpu you have, the larger the models you can run and the more "accurate" they will be. currently i run a 3B model on my nvidia rtx 3050 with 4gb, it struggles a little bit, but it does remarkably well imho. so if you have a rtx 4060 with more than 8gb of video ram, you'd probably have no trouble running most of the models. check the link out above and give it a go.
  • Michael

    Announcement

    By Michael, in General,

    I wrote at the first of the year i might have some news to share with you all. I've decided to come back partially to IPS development, and re-release some of my bigger apps. 
    Bringing Back:
    Stratagem Formularize   
    these are the two apps i'll bringing back very soon.
    Possibly New Apps:
    Meals - This will be a "recipe" app. it will allow you to define ingredients, build recipes (with measurements), so you can create a daily/weekly/monthly meal menu that will also generate a groceries list of what you need to purchase or have to make each meal. Chrono -  this is will be a time logging applications. it will allow you to log hours, costs, task, as well as send task and pay individuals thru any of the support payouts in nexus (since nexus/commerce is becoming apart of the whole IPS suite).  Easy Tables - This app will allow you to build data tables, with some computation abilities (like a worksheet) and use them in various places on your site.   
    Going Open Source:
    Babble names 2 avatar Toolbox Babble and N2A will likely be released under an open source license that will prevent monetization of the apps, but allow any one to modify it but not claim it as their own by changing the name or any other means. Toolbox will be released under its MIT license its always been under, toolbox will likely be only viable for IPS 4.x development, 5.x sounds like it kills off most of what it was designed to do, but it also extensively uses the hook system. So i highly doubt they put much thought into having the new "event" system, cover 1% of the places i hooked into to make most of the advanced features in this app work properly. which is sad, cause it has a lot of features i do use. 
    after i make their repositories available, i will no longer be supporting this apps free of charge, they will be released as is. 
    deader than disco:
    group menu manager downloads plus I wont be releasing these apps under Open source, and would just rather see them die. I don't think they will be able to be updated for IPS 5,  as both used the hook system extensively, to do what they did. 
     
    Pricing:
    TBD
  • Michael

    Illness

    By Michael, in General,

    Where to begin, i thought 2020 was a bad year, but so far 2021 has turned out to be a pretty bad year as well.
    the year started off with loosing my business, and having to find a new job. then i got the flu, and it took me down for several weeks, and then in early may, i was attacked by a cat on my leg. I kept the wound clean and all seemed to be going fine. it barely hurt, there was no discoloration, there was some slight swelling but it "seemed" fine. then about a week after the attack, after dinner, i got really tired, like to the point, where i "passed" out at my desk and hit my head. I just thought i was just exhausted, as i hadn't gotten that much sleep the last few nights. so i went to bed, then the next 4 or 5 days, i was in and out of it and hadn't realized that 5 days had passed, till my sister showed up one morning, as i hadn't been answering my phone. she thought i was dead, and forced me out of bed and rushed me to the emergency room.
    The cat bites had become septic and i was very close to death, if my sister hadn't come when she did, i would've probably been dead the next day or so. They admitted me, and started me on a massive amounts of antibiotics. I also went thru 3 surgeries on my leg, to remove damaged or dead tissue and i have a gaping wound and under home wound care (as i have a wound vac attached to my leg to help the wound heal). I will more than likely need to under go another surgery for skin grafts.
    I was released last week, and i was unable to walk on my own (i required use of a walker or wheel chair, as i was unable to stand for more than a few seconds on my own). All last week, i had a home care nurse for physical therapy come every day, forced me up out of bed, forced me to walk around, and to get me back to doing things on my own. after about 3 days, I realized i no longer need the use of the chair or walker, and that i was able to stand and do a fair bit of walking with only a fair amount of discomfort that went away if i sat down. 
    Today i was able to walk up the 25 or so stairs to go up stairs on my own, it hurt quite a bit, but what is it they say "no pain, no gain", my PT nurse says i've made excellent progress in a very short amount of time. I am also now able to sit at my desk for than a few minutes, so i will be returning back to at least work on my apps and anything else outstanding, as i'm on extended medical leave from my other job atm (as the shop insurance wont cover me if i had any accidents or injured my leg while i was there). 
    so to say the least, i defied death once again, and i am quite eager to start doing something again, as i've been going stir crazy this last month or so (as the hospital wouldn't let me have my laptop, the reason they gave was i needed to rest, so they only left me with my phone and i watch a buttload of youtube and netflix. btw, army of the dead, what a god damn let down.)
    anyway, i hope you all are well, and if you have any questions, let me know. Like i said, i'm quite eager to be more productive again.
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