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As an example I've created an alternative to Nissan's Connect EV app. It's basically a way to control and monitor your electric vehicle from Nissan. The official app is I’m very disappointed by; it’s slow and full of wrong decisions.
My alternative is called "My Leaf" and its available on Google Play and the App Store; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.kjeldsen.ca... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-leaf-for-nissan-ev/id143670... It's completely open source.
With Bitcoins the value is only set by an artificial demand. There is nothing left over, if demand stops. You can't eat a Bitcoin. There is no limitation on creating new cryptocurrencies. It is like the million dollar homepage. It was once valued with a million dollars but I doubt, anyone would pay any significant amount for those pixels now. Why? Well, yes, there is only one million dollar homepage, but if there was any demand, you could create a similar page for a few dollars of effort.
As an example I've created an alternative to Nissan's Connect EV app. It's basically a way to control and monitor your electric vehicle from Nissan. The official app is I’m very disappointed by; it’s slow and full of wrong decisions. My alternative is called "My Leaf" and its available on Google Play and the App Store; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.kjeldsen.ca...https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-leaf-for-nissan-ev/id1436...
It's completely open source.
Even on the client where Java has lost to Javascript, I'm finding it more enjoyable to add features to my 15-year-old SWT app [0] rather than dealing with the multiple layers of abstractions that is Javascript+CSS+DOM (+ maybe Electron). Personally I think it's a shame Sun dropped the ball with client Java - if they had chosen SWT over Swing and provided a minimal JVM then maybe Java Web Start would have beaten Javascript web apps. It's also a shame Sun sold Java to Oracle - Google would have been a better steward, and probably would have been willing to pay more for the Java parts of Sun.
I'm now trying Dart to develop a few Flutter apps. It's no doubt a better language, but not that much better - I think Flutter would have been more successful if it was built on Java.
It consists of the main Flutter app and a Dart library for communicating with Nissan's API.
I just love the lightning network. Years of development and it still doesn't work.
Can't help but to mention photopea; https://www.photopea.com/ Pretty impressive stuff made by one guy (it was initially). Basically a viable alternative to photoshop in a browser.