The T-Shirt Contest Wrapped Today

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Today was the last day to enter a question to win a t-shirt. Final tally: one entry. Two, if you count my husband.

I’m not mad about it. I didn’t do this to get thousands of entries. I did it for fun, and to see what kind of questions were actually on people’s minds. I also didn’t promote it much, since I was two weeks into retirement and mostly figuring out how to be retired.

What the contest actually gave me was an excuse to open Lovable and Supabase for the first time. Neither of which I’d touched before. Filed under AFOG.*

The winning question came from Life with AI :

“How can we, collectively, build accountability apps? How might we share the projects, iterate on them as a group, and pick the best iterations?”

That’s a good question. Good enough that I don’t think a paragraph answer does it justice. I might turn it into an interview instead of an essay, so it gets the room it needs.

Someone else asked me a direct question. She’s in Poland, and declined to enter the contest. But her question, about code coverage, is good enough to earn its own essay. That’s coming.

Now I need a new bit of fun for for August for another T-shirt giveaway . If July really is as quiet in Substack land as everyone says, that’s fine, gives me more time to think.

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*AFOG: Another Flippin’ Opportunity for Growth. My term for anything that breaks, confuses, or forces me to learn something I didn’t plan on learning today.

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