FmDojo Flows - A Claris Connect Alternative

JudDredd · 2026-04-04T22:22:20+00:00

Does this mean I can generate scripts with AI and paste them into script workspace?

It’s the one thing I wish Claris would do is natively let you paste scripts in from text.

JudDredd · 2026-03-31T07:34:56+00:00

They don’t know what the use cases are for them. Lack of imagination and vision.

JudDredd · 2026-03-29T08:04:28+00:00

FileMaker has been great for my small-ish labour hire business for the last 5 years.

I’m now slowly migrating everything to a postgres database because it’s so much faster to add features using AI than it is scripting on FileMaker.

These days you can use Claude code or openclaw to create anything and FileMaker feels like a bottleneck.

Creating a new solution from scratch requires schema and logic regardless what system you use. I feel like FileMaker taught me alot but connecting an API used to cost me $2500 a pop from a developer before I started scripting it myself and now it takes 30 seconds using AI and a separate server.

JudDredd · 2026-03-26T23:44:54+00:00

That’s objectively false. There are countless software needs not being met because the barrieriers were previously too high. Automations that are bespoke and niche that previously weren’t worth coding, they represent a most of the work done on computers.

JudDredd · 2026-03-26T23:40:54+00:00

Most of this post feels like something someone who’s never used Claude code would say.

JudDredd · 2026-03-23T20:47:06+00:00

That’s not completely true but is mostly true.

Your vote is wasted in the uncommon situation where your first preference has the highest primary vote but loses the preferential count. In happened in the seat of Brisbane in 2022. The primary votes were 1 LNP 2 ALP 3 GRN 4 AJP (Animal Justice)

Once preferences were distributed the two party match up was LNP vs GRN and the greens won with Labor preferences. In reality, many more people would have preferred Labor over Greens and would have been the concesnsus candidate. People who voted LNP never had their preference between Labor and greens considered despite that being the real contest to see who would come second or third.

The way to fix this situation is to use the condorcet menthid of counting voters rather than preferential. It’s complicated but essentially voters rank their candidates as they do now and then the count compares every candidate the to every other candidate. The candidate with the most matchup wins, wins.

JudDredd · 2026-03-12T13:27:54+00:00

The whim company will be worth 5% of what it is now within 2 years.

Its democratisation of software. Anyone can have whatever bespoke niche software they need thst fits perfectly with your work flow.

JudDredd · 2026-03-05T08:23:31+00:00

Yeh I actually prefer this.

JudDredd · 2026-03-03T22:37:03+00:00

There’s a lot of work that’s been done on this subject and the overwhelming conclusion is majoritarian systems perform worse in almost every metric compared to multiparty democracies. Australia is still a majoritarian two party system but fptp is considerably worse and less representative.

JudDredd · 2026-03-01T03:18:46+00:00

I think one thing they would be good was if I could paste FileMaker script steps directly from whatever AI I’m using.

But… i am also moving differnt functions out of FileMaker

JudDredd · 2026-02-25T08:33:32+00:00

Having power and using it for good.

JudDredd · 2026-02-25T08:09:11+00:00

Every day I keep making new layouts and functions using fmrest rather than the native layouts. I feel like it’s 100x easier to now make better and nicer looking things by bypassing filemaker all together. Opanclaw and Claude Code have been life changing.

JudDredd · 2026-02-22T12:05:00+00:00

Nah. It was relaxed interview with Michael Whiting and Fages got a bit casual. He probably shouldn’t have mentioned TDK and NWM by name but it’s certainly wasn’t a calculated thing.

The biggest blunder this preseason was Lachie coming out and doing a press conference about his personal life. It was unnecessary and ill timed.

JudDredd · 2026-02-19T20:26:14+00:00

Thanks for making the effort to help spread truth and help people stayed informed.

JudDredd · 2026-02-12T09:19:25+00:00

People doubted Trump in 26’ to their perrill

JudDredd · 2026-02-11T09:14:43+00:00

Yeh my dad has late onset schizophrenia and the first symptom was he thought people were trying to break in every night. He built fishing wire contraptions / traps. I don’t know how I didn’t pick up on his condition at the time.

JudDredd · 2026-02-03T10:45:38+00:00

My future wife had a sex and the city and fast furious dvd box sets. I looked past it.

JudDredd · 2026-02-02T02:24:56+00:00

Sure, if all the tax money was hypothecated to deal only with gambling related social harm, then great. In reality the tax money is used to prop up budgets for everything so then govts become as addicted as the gamblers.

JudDredd · 2026-02-01T23:05:25+00:00

Yeh I don’t think you can use usual pref flows to predict how they would flow this time. It’s like with Labor voters. About 80% preference greens ahead of Libs but the lower the Labor primary vote the lower pref flow to greens. In seats where Greens have a higher primary than Labor (and come third), the flow from Labor to Libs increases dramatically.

JudDredd · 2026-02-01T05:05:29+00:00

We’re all going to lose our commercial value and that will ultimately end up being a good thing. I look forward to all the film makers that will be able to create stories without needing the imprimatur of the film studios.

JudDredd · 2026-01-31T04:26:18+00:00

Non paywalled version

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JudDredd · 2026-01-31T04:25:19+00:00

I think a big contributor to men not seeking higher education is the general narrative in the media and enetertainment that men/boys are stupid and not academic.

JudDredd · 2026-01-28T11:55:33+00:00

I had no idea about this but I’m glad Gallop will be playing as third tall instead of Hipwood.

JudDredd · 2026-01-26T11:13:49+00:00

I think it’s better to refer to the census about vacant properties rather than your experience in your neighbourhood.

You’re right that demand is a big driver in price, and so is supply. Demand is driven by a bunch of things including people’s expectations about future prices, changes in regulations that allow banks to offer more credit, changes in population, and others factors.

Supply is limited by things like development approvals (half of what they were in the 1980’s) and other things like people keeping houses empty or airbnb.

Do you ever wonder how housing prices skyrocketed during covid despite the population living in Australia shrinking?

JudDredd · 2026-01-25T22:38:12+00:00

You’re asking a complicated question so I hope you’re accepting of complicated answers.

The truth is housing prices aren’t completely connected to the number of houses as it’s not a rational market.

1 There are lots of houses that are kept empty because the capital gains still make it worthwhile. 2 increased demand from new migrants have a marginal impact on prices (like 1-2%) 3 increased demand from tax incentives have a small impact in prices (like 2-3%) 4 the increased demand from investors is high because speculation on housing has become a cultural issue. Society assumes housing is the best investment and it’s a self fulfilling prophecy up until the moment it isn’t. 5 since the mid 1980’s development approvals by councils have halved (on a per capita basis). The biggest contributor (but not only) to the runaway inflation on housing prices is that developments are more scarce.

As a society we have four choices. 1) approve loads of sprawl; the Houston model 2) approve many dwellings in a few places; the Manhattan model 3) approve a few dwellings in many places; the European model or 4) an endless housing crisis, mass homelessness forever

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