Falsehoods programmers believe about names: [https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...]

There are many variations out there (any authoritative?)

This is great and very user-friendly. As a quick & dirty alternative for people using the command line, you can easily send files by using netcat.

To quickly copy file from one machine to another.

  # on target machine
  $ nc -l PORT > file

  # on source machine
  $ cat file | nc HOST PORT

To quickly copy an entire folder:

  # on target machine
  $ nc -l PORT | tar xf -

  # on source machine
  $ tar cf - FOLDER | nc HOST PORT

I think the better version of these ideas is in Jason Cohen's classic "Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business" talk.[0, 1]

The difference is that Jason Cohen's advice is based on personal experience growing four businesses to over $1M/yr in revenue. I'm not seeing what qualifies this author to give such broad, sweeping advice about bootstrapping.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw

[1] https://mtlynch.io/notes/designing-the-ideal-bootstrapped-bu...

I have a few qualms with this app:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

Those are basically just as repairable as the Fairbuds, and cleaning the insides has helped some people get rid of the feedback problem:

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

If that's your use case, here's another game changer (one line bashrc change to make bash_history changes immediately, rather than upon shell exit, e.g. when you end your tmux session): https://web.archive.org/web/20090815205011/http://www.cuberi...

My first thought was "if you can SSH then you can pipe" and, like magic, you can pipe the wacom device from /dev through SSH to a computer.

The result was this: https://gitlab.com/afandian/pipes-and-paper

Blog post https://blog.afandian.com/2020/10/pipes-and-paper-remarkable...

It's kind of abandonware now, but some others have made some great forks!

https://gitlab.com/afandian/pipes-and-paper/-/forks

https://github.com/flomlo/rm2canvas

I look at the question of money and art at two levels:

1. As an individual, what is the right mindset to have about my creativity? At this level, I agree with you. Looking at the economic trends, the only sane way to create and feel good about it is to do it in my free time, focus on the intrinsic reward and have some other job that pays the bills. I'm very fortunate in that my other job takes good care of me.

But there is another level I think about a lot:

2. At the cultural level, is it good for a society if people can only make art in their leisure time? I consider art to be (among other things) the mechanism by which we define, share, and propagate our culture. Our artworks teach each generation what we value and how we think one should live. They show us what it means to be human.

If that art can only be produced by people wealthy enough to have sufficient spare time (books, poetry, and painting) or giant corporations (film, TV), then you place complete control over your culture in the hands of the rich. Do you remember in the 80s and 90s when it seemed like almost every movie had an anti-corporate angle to it? Did you notice that they all stopped doing that? What should we expect when huge corporations are producing almost every film we see.

Should we be surprised to see that our society is failing to solve inequality when most books are written by the wealthy, about the wealthy, for the wealthy? How are those at the top supposed to understand and care for those at the bottom when those at the bottom don't even have the time to share their stories with them?

I think a just society needs art-makers to be able to focus on their art without worrying about money because it's the only way to ensure that everyone at every economic level gets to participate in defining our culture.